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Home - Security Special - Article

Document Security

A complete solution for document protection!

How many times have you felt the need to “recall” documents that you have sent by email to your colleagues or business partners?

  • What if the confidential document shared with your vendor or customer falls in wrong hands?
  • What control do you have on the document and information after you have shared it?
  • What if your employee who had access to sensitive documents quits?
  • Can you stop someone from accessing a document you had yourself provided access to?

With more than 80% of the enterprise information lying in “unstructured” documents such questions about the security and control of documents are plaguing more and more enterprises. Answering these questions is however no longer difficult, thanks to an IIT Bombay promoted company - Seclore. Seclore’s product, FileSecure enables enterprises to secure and control the usage of documents even after they have been distributed. It ensures that usage restrictions are applied every time the document is accessed, regardless of its physical location. FileSecure allows an owner of a document to get full control on who can view, edit, print, distribute it, and when and where can they use it. Also, the usage policies can be remotely updated and applied without having to re-send the document.

For instance, using FileSecure, information from a transactional system could be downloaded as a protected document. The document can be restricted for usage between the senior sales and marketing team while it is under review. After the finalisation, it can be circulated to all the distributors so that only they can view the pricing and cannot forward it to any other person or company. At the time of release of the new pricing, the old pricing document can also be self destructed so that no one has access to it anymore.

Besides restricting or allowing actions like viewing, printing, editing and distribution, FileSecure also blocks screen captures and video grabbing tools from taking an image of the document. It supports most of the common file formats including MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PDF, Text based Files and Images. It provides document security for documents on Laptops, Desktops or File Servers. FileSecure applies access and usage restrictions on documents independent of how they are shared (CD, Emails, Pen drives, FTP, Shared folders, Messengers etc). It provides inbuilt audit trailing features which help enterprises to ensure compliance with requirements of standards like Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27000-1 and HIPAA etc.

Seclore’s products are most relevant where confidential information needs to be circulated amongst people/companies in a secure manner with dynamic policies attached. Existing security mechanisms enable enterprises to provide access control; however, they cannot fully control how the information is used by the recipient. Also, once the document is shared, there is almost no way to re-call or “un-share” the document, if such a need arises.

FileSecure not only provides the flexibility to define different usage rights for different users on the same document, but also these rights can be changed dynamically and made applicable without having to resend the document. FileSecure provides comprehensive information rights management to enterprises by addressing needs for encryption, information security from unauthorized access and information control to allow only authorized usage.

Seclore has another solution to protect information shared for outsourced processes. Seclore InfoSource helps to protect sensitive information outsourced to business partners for further processing. It protects the data to be shared upon its creation, by encrypting it and applying pre-defined usage policies. The usage policies ensure that the information is used at the service provider’s end only for a pre-defined specific purpose, by a specific application, on a specific set of computers within a specific time period.

Many leading banks and engineering services companies are already using Seclore’s solutions for persistent protection of documents and secured outsourcing.

Seclore Technology, promoted by IIT Bombay, is the leading provider of information security solutions in the area of information rights management, secure outsourcing and enterprise DRM. The company is headquartered in Mumbai. To know more about Seclore services and products, visit www.seclore.com or contact info@seclore.com

 


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