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Intellectual property
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
Intellectual property
- [Instructor] In a knowledge-based economy, businesses go to great lengths to protect their intellectual property. While trademark, copyright, and patent protections do help, businesses must also ensure that they're using technical and procedural safeguards to protect their information. Information Rights Management, or IRM programs, are designed to enforce an organization's information security policy. They do this by achieving three objectives, enforcing data rights to keep information out of unauthorized hands, provisioning access to employees, partners, and other authorized users, and implementing access control models that enforce access policies consistently across platforms and systems. Digital Rights Management, or DRM software, is one of the important tools available to organizations building out their IRM programs. DRM provides content owners with the technical ability to prevent the unauthorized use of their…