enterprise digital rights management (EDRM)
Virtualization supports the outsourcing of services as cloud computing. Outsourcing services to the cloud can result in the loss of electronic documents containing confidential data or know-how. For this application, Enterprise Digital Rights Management (EDRM) provides comprehensive document-based data protection. Increasing electronic collaboration between company employees and with external partners and suppliers increases the risk of misuse of important company data.
Enterprise digital rights management protects data used by recipients. It prevents recipients from misusing or redistributing data and protects data and documents in virtualized applications. EDRM can be combined with virtualization.
Common security mechanisms, such as digital rights management( DRM), firewalls, intrusion detection systems( IDS), and demilitarized zones( DMZ), protect data and documents in file storage, document management, and data transport and networks, and create a secure area within the enterprise that is protected against attacks. Outsourced documents, on the other hand, cannot be controlled using conventional methods.
The situation is different with Enterprise Digital Rights Management, which protects documents end-to-end, especially if they reside on local computers. For this purpose, digital content is assigned access and usage rights and encrypted. When the application is called up, it implements the access rights.
EDRM targets data protection in the corporate environment and links the documents with relevant information about the recipient and their rights. This ensures that the recipient is only allowed to print certain documents but not to copy, store or pass them on. With Enterprise Digital Rights Management, an EDRM server takes over the administration and control of rights and authentication. It communicates with the document management system and protects it against unauthorized access, and on the other hand with the EDRM client, which is the partner or supplier. Once the EDRM server has clarified access rights with the EDRM client, the document management system can transfer the sensitive data to the EDRM client.