Security used to have borders, but the way we work has changed, and so have the risks. Files move beyond internal networks to endpoints, cloud platforms, and teams across the globe. This mobility boosts productivity but also increases risk exposure. Legacy Digital Rights Management (DRM) tools are tied to specific systems and fail to coordinate across platforms. The lack of integration between multiple Enterprise DRM (EDRM) solutions and incompatibility may raise concerns about security and compliance.
According to the Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report, 89% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy, and security remains among the top challenges to the cloud environment. This diversity brings operational agility but also poses the question: how do you secure files consistently across endpoints, SaaS platforms, virtual desktops, and unmanaged devices? This is where the idea of Hyper DRM becomes indispensable.
The Challenge of Fragmented Security
Many large organizations rely on multiple EDRM solutions, one for on-premises systems, another for cloud services, and a third for third-party collaboration. These solutions often operate in isolation, resulting in disconnected policies, siloed audit trails, and gaps in enforcement. A document classified as confidential on an endpoint PC might not retain the same restrictions when accessed via a cloud platform or external devices.
This fragmentation increases security risks and creates complexity for IT teams that manage conflicting policy languages, user roles, and enforcement mechanisms. The lack of interoperability undermines the effectiveness of EDRM and complicates compliance.
What is Hyper DRM?
Hyper DRM is an advanced data security technology that offers an open EDRM architecture, enabling organizations to maintain persistent, unified control over sensitive data. Rather than operating as yet another isolated tool, Hyper DRM serves as a data security orchestrator, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and controls of data across all platforms, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and endpoints.
The goal is not to replace existing data-centric security tools but to connect them, enabling a unified data protection strategy. Hyper DRM ensures that once a file is classified and protected, those policies remain in effect wherever the file travels.
Persistent Policy Enforcement Through Integration
Hyper DRM ensures that encryption and usage control policies are preserved as files move across systems. It synchronizes classifications, access rights, and restrictions like print or screen capture across integrated EDRM frameworks.
Security administrators can define a policy once, and Hyper DRM ensures that every connected EDRM system interprets and enforces it consistently. For example, a file marked as “Confidential” on an endpoint PC will retain screen capture blocking and watermarking policies even when accessed from a mobile device or cloud-based document viewer.
All actions – such as viewing, editing, and sharing – are logged in a unified dashboard, ensuring traceability across every environment.
Use Case: Unified Monitoring Across Disconnected EDRM Systems
A global enterprise had deployed two separate EDRM solutions, one for internal systems and another for external collaboration with partners. Eash solution operated in isolation, with distinct policy engines and separate logging environments. This fragmentation made it difficult to ensure consistent security enforcement or gain a clear view of document activity across the business.
With Hyper DRM:
- Both EDRM systems were integrated into a unified policy and logging architecture.
- The organization defined a single set of document across policies, including classification, watermarking, and screen capture blocking.
- Hyper DRM synchronized and enforced these policies across both EDRM platforms.
- All user activity, internal or external, was logged and visualized through a centralized dashboard.
This use case demonstrates how Hyper DRM unified control and visibility, even when organizations operate multiple EDRM systems across complex environments.
Benefits of Hyper DRM
- Cross-Platform Enforcement: Integrate multiple EDRM systems to apply consistent policies.
- Persistent Protection: Maintain classification, encryption, and access rules consistently across all environments.
- Lower Complexity: Simplify administration by reducing redundant policy management.
- Audit-Ready Visibility: Capture and analyze unified usage logs across all access points.
- Secure Collaboration: Enable external sharing with a consistent policy.
- Zero-Trust Alignment: Enforce the least privilege and verify access at the file level.
New Version of Fasoo Enterprise DRM as a Hyper DRM
Hyper DRM fits into Zero Trust strategies by ensuring data-centric control. In environments with blurred perimeters, security needs to follow the data – not the network. Hyper DRM ensures policies travel with data and remain effective even when files leave the organization’s infrastructure.
With the new version of Fasoo Enterprise DRM (FED), organizations can maintain security and usability regardless of EDRM formats and computing environments. FED provides a platform where policy, log, and control of different EDRM documents can be managed comprehensively.
Features of the FED’s unified EDRM platform:
- Policy:
- Enforce a unified security policy in different EDRM solutions
- Provide an equal level of security in all computing environments (local or cloud)
- Log:
- Manage document usage activities comprehensively by collecting DRM logs in all environments
- Ensure document traceability regardless of environment or encryption type
- Control:
- Enable compatibility by recognizing and using heterogeneous EDRM documents in a unified or subordinate format
- Maintain consistent security levels across different EDRM document formats.
Control with Enterprise DRM (EDRM) in All Environments
As organizations embrace hybrid IT environments and external collaboration, the need for persistent, integrated data security grows. Hyper DRM doesn’t just secure files – it unifies policy and control across systems. Bridging the gap between heterogeneous EDRM systems ensures that security is unified, continuous, and follows your data wherever it goes.
In a world where collaboration, compliance, and confidentiality are non-negotiable, Hyper DRM delivers the unified data security architecture that modern enterprises require.