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.

• Applying rights to automate the access control and usage of the content i.e., 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.

1. Industry specific encryption of data or information
2. Strong implementation mechanism to protect data from copy, print and save the document
3. Content access management
4. Business process management

• Identify what needs to be protected i.e., documents or emails residing inside or outside of an organization
• Identify usage policies of the document
• Evaluate data leakage avenues
• 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)
• where can the information be accessed from (in office, home,..)

• Strong user authentication and authorization
• Restriction of content being copied or retyped and transmitted by malicious programs
• Protecting documents from within and outside the organization
• Audit and secure documents as per compliance standard