Comments on: Impressions from the IT-Analyst Event in London http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/paulus/2010/07/19/impressions-from-the-it-analyst-event-in-london/ KuppingerCole Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Thorpe http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/paulus/2010/07/19/impressions-from-the-it-analyst-event-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Simon Thorpe Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:20:31 +0000 http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/paulus/?p=20#comment-26 "More specifically, asking for more details, most of the tool and product vendors are still relying on the wrong assumption that CISOs want to “extend the border of the enterprise” or “secure the perimeter”. But this is good for nothing, for businesses to be productive, information has to flow, and must be protected there – and not retained “within” the enterprise." So this CISO was looking for a technology to provide information security but yet not limit the ability to share that information beyond the traditional security perimeter? This is the exact use case for an information rights management technology... I think this article discusses a very similar issue... <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/2008/07/upsetting_your_employee_101_ba.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/2008/07/upsetting_you...</a> "More specifically, asking for more details, most of the tool and product vendors are still relying on the wrong assumption that CISOs want to “extend the border of the enterprise” or “secure the perimeter”. But this is good for nothing, for businesses to be productive, information has to flow, and must be protected there – and not retained “within” the enterprise."

So this CISO was looking for a technology to provide information security but yet not limit the ability to share that information beyond the traditional security perimeter? This is the exact use case for an information rights management technology…

I think this article discusses a very similar issue… http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/2008/07/upsetting_you…

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