Information Rights Management

About The Course

What happens when as part of a standard business process, sensitive information has to be sent out of the network to a trusted third party? What controls does an organization have to protect this information once it has left their own network? Through this training, participants shall understand why securing sensitive data from unauthorized access has been the primary concern for all organizations. They will get to know that for reducing risk of data loss and misuse, Information Rights Management solutions are greatly assisting companies to protect their confidential and sensitive information even after it leaves their organizational boundaries.

What is Information Rights Management (IRM)?

Preventing and securing sensitive data from unauthorized access has been the primary concern for all organizations. To reduce risk of data loss and misuse, recently IRM solutions are gaining significant importance for securing information and access rights of the document.

Who should attend this training?

• Security Administrators
• Network Administrators
• Senior Management
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• IT Managers
• Business Owners

Why should you attend?

Information Rights Management solution helps to protect confidential and sensitive information of your organization. Following are the ways IRM solutions achieve that state through the following:

• Mapping business classification to the information
• Implementing policies and procedures to track and secure information from viewing, printing, editing and exchanging along with access control list in place.
• Applying industry specific encryption of data or information
• Implementing mechanism to protect the sensitive data from copying, printing or and saving

After the training, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• How to evaluate risk of data theft and misuse of organization's intellectual property?
• How to select appropriate and cost effective IRM solution on basis of:
  • Identifying what needs to be protected
  • Identifying usage policies of the document

You will also be able to accurately identify and evaluate data leakage avenues based on these factors:

• Who can use the information (people, group)?
• What a user can do with that information (read, write, print or forward)?
• When can the user access the information (time duration and dates)?
• From where can the information be accessed (in office, home)?

Prerequisites

Knowledge on Information security fundamentals will provide a very good starting point.

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