Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) Solutions
Know, protect, and control your sensitive digital assets with persistent, granular usage controls
Digital Rights Management Solutions
Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) refers to the systems and processes that govern the access and usage of sensitive digital assets in the enterprise. Sometimes called information rights management (IRM), it’s a distinct form of digital rights management (DRM) designed to fulfill the needs of businesses.
What is Digital Rights Management?
Digital rights management is the umbrella term for the technologies that control access to information products. The classic approach to DRM is consumer-centric and meant to protect movies, music, software, and other digital products from unauthorized copying or region-locking these media. One example is the system of DVD region codes developed in 1997 to control the international distribution of movies.
Digital rights management tools are acceptable for consumer use cases, despite the many workarounds that exist. Bypassing a region-lock on a DVD or video game won’t cause too much of a headache to businesses. However, these technologies aren’t designed to protect the critical data and intellectual property that enables organizations to operate and retain a competitive edge in the market. This sensitive data need to be shared, but also secured as tightly as possible to prevent a data leak of digital content or exposure that could cause harm to the business.
As businesses collaborate with external partners and leverage cloud computing services and mobile devices, monitoring and safeguarding your sensitive digital assets is crucial. These assets risk being compromised when transferred out of your organization. Enterprise digital rights management solutions defend against this risk, ensuring that only authorized users can access the files services.
Explore Seclore’s Enterprise Digital Rights Management Solutions for the most advanced, secure, automated data-centric security solution.
Download Seclore’s introductory guide to EDRM to learn more.
FAQ About Enterprise Digital Rights Management
Why is Enterprise Digital Rights Management Important?
The key features of a strong enterprise digital rights management solution are:
- Encrypting the file at the document level – File encryption is the very first step of any DRM process, whether consumer or enterprise, to ensure that there is a base level of security on the digital file. This encryption is only the first layer of defense, but it is a crucial one.
- Granular access controls – Enterprise cybersecurity teams need the ability to assign access rights for sensitive digital assets – both at the file- and policy-level. This granular access control can be based on general roles related to specific job titles or departments, specific to individuals, domains, or even geographies. Flexibility is critical for the long-term success of any EDRM strategy.
- Ease of use for protected documents – Making protected documents too difficult to access and use can bring an entire EDRM program to its knees. An effective DRM solution makes it simple for authorized users to share and access protected documents, adding in security without needing to unnecessarily hamstring business processes.
- Simple to revoke user access controls – People leave companies at any time for any reason. Cybersecurity teams should be able to easily revoke access controls for users at any time without a convoluted process. Making it simple to manage user permissions makes it more likely for the EDRM tool to be leveraged.
What are the key elements of digital rights management?
The key features of a strong enterprise digital rights management solution are:
- Encrypting the file at the document level – File encryption is the very first step of any DRM process, whether consumer or enterprise, to ensure that there is a base level of security on the digital file. This encryption is only the first layer of defense, but it is a crucial one.
- Granular access controls – Enterprise cybersecurity teams need the ability to assign access rights for sensitive digital assets – both at the file- and policy-level. This granular access control can be based on general roles related to specific job titles or departments, specific to individuals, domains, or even geographies. Flexibility is critical for the long-term success of any EDRM strategy.
- Ease of use for protected documents – Making protected documents too difficult to access and use can bring an entire EDRM program to its knees. An effective DRM solution makes it simple for authorized users to share and access protected documents, adding in security without needing to unnecessarily hamstring business processes.
- Simple to revoke user access controls – People leave companies at any time for any reason. Cybersecurity teams should be able to easily revoke access controls for users at any time without a convoluted process. Making it simple to manage user permissions makes it more likely for the EDRM tool to be leveraged.
Product Capabilities
Seclore’s Enterprise Digital Rights Management solution adopts a data-centric approach to EDRM, ensuring that you can know, protect, and control the security of sensitive data no matter where it goes within the enterprise or outside the perimeter.
With Seclore you:
- Gain visibility of your sensitive data
- Enforce granular usage controls for all enterprise data
- Define and attach granular data-centric usage controls
Know
Gain Visibility of Your Sensitive Data
Extend Governance, Risk, and Compliance Beyond the Perimeter
Gain real-time visibility into sensitive data, such as who attempted to access the information and what they did with the file, with the help of alerts.
Know Data Usage
Get detailed reports on the usage and access of sensitive data. Uncover forensic details such as IP address, machine name, location, date and time, etc.
Protect
Enforce Granular Usage Controls over Sensitive Data
Protect Documents Both Automatically and Manually
Automatic and manual processes all for scalable usage policies or roles as well as one-off manual protection.
Extend Security to File Sharing Systems
Map access policies already defined in existing data management systems (DLP, CASB, ECM, and EFSS) to EDRM for automatic protection when downloading, discovering, and sharing documents.
Secure Sensitive Data Regardless of Device and Location
No matter where a file exists, whether on a corporate laptop or a USB drive left on an airplane, only authorized and authenticated users can access Seclore-protected files. Device agnostic security makes cloud adoption, BYOD, and external collaboration easy and secure.
Control
Define and Attach Granular Data-Centric Usage Controls
Control Access to Sensitive Data
Control who can access the file, from which device or IP address, and for how long.
Define Actions on Sensitive Data
Define what the recipient can do with the sensitive data, such as view, edit, take screen captures, etc.
Seclore's Granular Usage Controls
Seclore’s Enterprise Rights Management solution enables granular control of access rights for individual files. Your critical information is protected no matter where it is or who access it.
WHO can access the file?
Users or groups within or outside the organization defined by you
WHAT can they do with it?
View, edit, print, copy the content, take screen grabs, and work offline
WHEN can they do it?
Automatic file expiration, date and time ranges, number of days from the first access
WHERE can they do it?
Specific computers or devices, IP addresses, or geographies
Evaluation Checklist for Enterprise Digital Rights Management
Get this checklist to compare different EDRM solutions and choose the best one for your organization.
Enterprise Digital Rights Management by Industry
Financial Services
Financial Services firms process vast amounts of highly confidential and strictly regulate data. Read the whitepaper to learn how banking and financial enterprises can use Seclore EDRM.
Manufacturing
Safeguarding intellectual property is a competitive edge and sometimes a national security concern for many manufacturing organizations. Read the whitepaper to learn how to protect IP for manufacturing organizations with Seclore EDRM.
Automating EDRM to Close Security Gaps in External Collaboration
Read this whitepaper to learn how automating EDRM can help you quickly address collaboration security gaps and ensure successful EDRM deployment.
