3 Reasons Why Enterprise DRM Saves the Day on a Deserted Island

• February 23, 2022
• Insider threat, IP Theft, Secure collaboration, Sensitive Unstructured Data

• What good is a secure island if you’re left stranded? Former Secure Islands customers want to know, since their data protection software has finally reached end-of-life support after the company was acquired by Microsoft a few years back. The good news: they have more options than they may have thought. * As a startup, Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. was a success story. Not so much for some of its early customers, we hear. Two...

• What good is a secure island if you’re left stranded? Former Secure Islands customers want to know, since their data protection software has finally...

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The Top 5 Document Protection Blog Posts of 2021

• January 12, 2022
• Data security, Insider threat, IP Theft

• Which blog posts about document security and protection attracted the most visitors to the Fasoo website in 2021? Let’s face it: the ins and outs of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the enterprise don’t exactly make for blog topics that get most people’s juices flowing. The good news is that content that draws on the insights shared by Fasoo’s longtime, recent, and not-yet customers can overcome this hurdle. Readers interested in Enterprise DRM clearly...

• Which blog posts about document security and protection attracted the most visitors to the Fasoo website in 2021? Let’s face it: the ins and...

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Enterprise DRM and DLP: Comparison Made Simple

• August 13, 2021
• Application Security Testing, Data security, Insider threat, IP Theft, Sensitive Unstructured Data

•   Like digital rights management (DRM) for the enterprise, data loss prevention (DLP) solutions have recently seen a resurgence. Both aim to protect sensitive documents against leakage and exfiltration. Those looking to deploy or expand one or the other frequently weigh DRM vs. DLP. But how helpful is this “either/or” perspective really? *  For starters, it risks missing one crucial difference between these two approaches to document protection. Other than DRM, DLP isn’t designed...

•   Like digital rights management (DRM) for the enterprise, data loss prevention (DLP) solutions have recently seen a resurgence. Both aim to protect sensitive...

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FAQ: 5 Top Questions About Fasoo Enterprise DRM vs. Microsoft AIP

• July 21, 2021
• Data security

• How does Fasoo Enterprise DRM (Fasoo EDRM) compare to Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)? The first solution is a digital rights management platform to protect documents at scale in large organizations and along their supply chain. The latter was developed primarily to protect the document ecosystem of MS Office plus a few third-party file formats.   Can you compare them at all?  It’s a common question we get, so let’s try. * “We’re looking...

• How does Fasoo Enterprise DRM (Fasoo EDRM) compare to Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)? The first solution is a digital rights management platform to...

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The IP Protection Capability More Manufacturing IT Leaders Wish They Had

• March 24, 2021
• Data security, Insider threat, IP Theft, Sensitive Unstructured Data

•   Global manufacturers in innovation-driven industries are ramping up their document protection against intellectual property theft. Can you guess what tops their priority list when selecting or expanding enterprise-wide digital rights management (DRM)? Here’s a hint. But first, a quick look at the court dockets. Did you hear about that lawsuit filed by Intel in February against a former employee who joined Microsoft? Talk about an IP theft textbook case. Intel accuses [PDF] a...

•   Global manufacturers in innovation-driven industries are ramping up their document protection against intellectual property theft. Can you guess what tops their priority list...

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Collecting Laptops From Terminated Employees? Protect Unstructured Data

• April 16, 2020
• Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data security, Insider threat, Privacy, Secure collaboration

• I read a Tweet recently from “Accidental CISO” about collecting laptops from terminated employees during the pandemic that I deemed retweetable (if that is a word).  Some comments focused more on the hardware – how to get it back – but this got me thinking more about what is actually on the hardware. What sensitive information, like intellectual property, might reside on them?  It also made me think, in a situation like this, how...

• I read a Tweet recently from “Accidental CISO” about collecting laptops from terminated employees during the pandemic that I deemed retweetable (if that is...

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You Need Data-Aware Protection Mechanisms

• September 12, 2017
• Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data security, Insider threat

• Data breaches pose one of the greatest threats to business and government.  With the recent data breach at Equifax magnifying the problem of data loss in businesses and the public sector, it’s time for organizations to think hard about using data-aware protection to safeguard sensitive information. The ever-changing cybersecurity landscape requires organizations to evolve beyond merely protecting the network perimeter and end-points to implementing protections on the data.  When data breaches are successful, the...

• Data breaches pose one of the greatest threats to business and government.  With the recent data breach at Equifax magnifying the problem of data...

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Digital Rights Management Helps the FDIC Proactively Address Cyber Security

• May 27, 2016
• Cybersecurity, Data breach, Insider threat

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will implement Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital information.  This is in reaction to security incidents where departing employees accidentally took sensitive files on portable media.  According to numerous studies, trusted insiders pose a greater risk to sensitive information than hackers and cybercriminals. I applaud the FDIC for taking this key initiative to proactively protect and control its most sensitive information.  DRM will...

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will implement Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital information.  This is in reaction...

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Stop the Data Breaches – Everyone Should Protect Consumer Data

• May 24, 2016
• Data breach, Data security

• There is a lot happening lately in the financial sector to help stem the tide of constant data breaches.  This week a financial industry coalition in the US is promoting a campaign called “Stop The Data Breaches” to encourage people to get their members of congress to pass The Data Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 2205 and S. 961). The effort is backed by seven trade groups, including the American Bankers Association, the Consumer...

• There is a lot happening lately in the financial sector to help stem the tide of constant data breaches.  This week a financial industry...

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Stop Accidental Data Breaches Through Errors

• November 24, 2015
• Data breach, Data security, Insider threat

• “Clerical Error” in Georgia Results in Data Breach of 6 Million Voters A class action lawsuit was filed by two Georgia women alleging a massive data breach when Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office released personally identifiable information (PII) of voters, including Social Security numbers, to the media, political parties and other paying subscribers. Allegations include that the unauthorized information released in October in the voter lists also contained dates of birth and drivers’...

• “Clerical Error” in Georgia Results in Data Breach of 6 Million Voters A class action lawsuit was filed by two Georgia women alleging a...

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