tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40451203177163545542012-02-20T14:10:29.384+05:30Seclore is an information rights management company which has developed innovative solutions in the area of information usage control. Seclore recognizes the importance of intellectual property protection and has achieved leadership in the area of information usage control, information rights management, enterprise DRM.Seclorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03723849538814822663noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045120317716354554.post-48117252954484940912012-02-15T12:24:00.002+05:302012-02-15T12:48:37.364+05:30

Outsourcing of HR processes has become fairly mainstream now with even some small companies opting for this service.Specialized skills, best-in-class HR programs, better compliance to legislative norms and of course lower costs are prime reasons for this shift. The most common processes that  are outsourced are  pre-employment background checks, payroll processing, time & attendance, accounts

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Most technology experts predicted that the last year and 2012/2013 are going to be years of the handheld devices. As more information gets accessed by these handhelds and stored on the cloud, information security will have to adapt some practices and create new ones. This post looks at options for creating a security framework for the “new new world”. Smartphones are goldmines of

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In this season of new year resolutions and predictions we, at Seclore, have come up with our own "top 10". This is the last part.Governments & Enterprises are increasingly targeted by overlapping surges of cyber attacks from within, from criminals and nation-states seeking economic or military advantage. This article lists the top 5 security risks in front of such organizations for 2012 and

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In this season of new year resolutions and predictions we, at Seclore, have come up with our own "top 10". This is the first of the 2 part series.Governments & Enterprises are increasingly targeted by overlapping surges of cyber attacks from within, from criminals and nation-states seeking economic or military advantage. This article lists the top 10 security risks in front of such organizations

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An IRM system which can transfer the responsibility of protection from human beings to a content aware automated process will be extremely valuable in case of large organizations.The need to integrate DLP and IRM is criticalLots have been written about famous data breaches and the need for Data Loss Prevention. I will spare the reader the aggravation of reading it again here. There are

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Transactional Systems and Data SecurityAlmost all medium to large organizations depend on various transactional systems for their day to day operations like - ERP, CRM, planning and optimization, inventory management etc. Some organizations consolidate their corporate data across multiple systems into data-warehouses or reporting data stores which may be used for ongoing analysis and

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Have you ever wondered about the source of information for WikiLeaks ? Was it an employee with malicious intent, a lost mobile phone or a discarded hard disk? Most companies which feature on WikiLeaks have probably got some kind of audit done on the source of the leak and then put together a control measure. Here we take a look at some of the most common information security audit “observations”

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A quick intro to IRMAn IRM solution protects sensitive information from un-authorized access, and the good part is, the controls remain with the information in spite of where the information goes and how it goes.IRM solutions are used to protect sensitive information such as financial data, intellectual property, business plans, client or personal information. In its present shape and IRM

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Does the following scenario sound familiar: You sign up for a new demat account or home loan or trading account, and within a week or so you receive a call from a related service asking whether you’d be interested in signing up with them as well? One recent example comes to my mind: a friend of mine just bought a new car and took a car loan for it. Within one week he received an SMS offering him

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Startling revelation in Health care and pharmaceutical sectors have come up because they have claimed a mysterious disappearance of their important documents facing an unaccounted loss of important documents such as product patents, product dossiers from their systems. Data security has always been one of the top priorities for any organization. Loss of important data posses a critical threat in

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Physical security measures like physical access control form the first line of defense. In an outsourcing scenario however, the data security and data privacy initiative usually consists of the following along with physical security: Implementing continual background checks of employees, Implementing processes to ensure that access rights to information resources are provisioned and

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight-ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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Workflow Management System (WMS) today form an integral part of any Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System. Simply put, a WMS allows an administrator to create a set of rules which govern the flow of work within a process. “Work” typically moves with a set of documents in tow. For instance, an invoice passes through an approval process and then is routed to the accounts-payable department.

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight-ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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The Aadhaar (http://uidai.gov.in) technical team organized their first developer seminar in Bangalore couple weeks back to give a first glimpse of aadhaar internals to the techies. Seclore's technical team was, of course, there for the session and notes from the session follow. For the uninitiated audience, Aadhaar is a "Unique Identity" project of Government of India. Under this project, every

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This quadra-choice question appears to be more and more common within enterprises .. Some help on this question and at least where to start looking …What is DLP ? (And please lets have the layman's view ...)DLP prevents information leakage by scanning into the document / email / ... and searching for pre-defined key-words and regular expressions. If a match is found then the DLP system would tag

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Privacy as a concept and its relevance to companies and businesses in India has been gaining focus off late – earlier it used to be the preserve of civil and personal liberty rights of individuals rather than business.Privacy : A DefinitionWikipedia states that Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves

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Early stages of any venture are always full of dilemmas of how much to share and what to hide .. much like the teenage prom queen !!Having gone through a similar experience in the early stages of Seclore ourselves, we found that we shared a high level vision to give some context, but were wary of sharing some of the details of the financial model, solution architecture / execution plan. We also

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight-ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight-ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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This is a multi-part blog entry on important criteria based on which enterprises must evaluate rights management technologies before investing significant amounts of time and money.Please note that not all criteria might be important for any given enterprise so you will have to pick and choose the ones which are important, give appropriate weight-ages and then decide on the best technology.To

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Move over BPOs, because India Inc’s next big industry is here. And it’s going to be centered around the law firms, in the form of LPOs (Legal Process Outsourcing).Yes, a huge amount of back office work from the law firms of the US and the UK can find its way to the Indian shore, thanks to the country’s vast English speaking legal forces and affordable manpower.The LPO segment is poised to cross

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Data leakage must be plugged and there are a number of Data Leak / Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions available that take care of this risk. Current day DLP solutions provide controls to monitor hardware and software systems keeping track of access and movement of data in violation of defined policies.Until DLP solutions were not available, organizations had to depend on simple solutions like

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Data in all it’s forms is the property of the person or organization who created it and as it carries value, it is necessary to have effective safeguards to protect it. Unfortunately, data is produced at such an alarming rate that we lose out on classifying it and carrying out other housekeeping tasks like storage, lifecycle management, distribution and control of ownership.The results are

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