tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40451203177163545542012-01-27T15:37:50.898+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.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045120317716354554.post-35702885281124192012-01-27T13:11:00.001+05:302012-01-27T15:26:22.343+05:30

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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Today, HP is faced by a public disclosure of their internal presentation providing details of pricing and features of the HP Slate in comparison to the Apple iPad. The company had released a couple of demo videos for the Slate and these came out pretty soon after the iPad launch.No one wants the world to know what you are developing before you are ready to make the product presentation on your

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Increasing data volumes in the organization and continually evolving threats that can put it’s very existence at risk require high protection levels. Security controls must look at specific functions and provide protection in a manner that does not hamper normal business operations yet builds security into the DNA of the organization culture.Many organizations have implemented an Information

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Wikileaks is well known as the repository of leaked sensitive documents in the past, but last week, they created a global sensation by posting 90,000 documents online about the Afghan war. These documents contain accounts of US engagements in the war zone, intelligence reports and videos – collectively providing inside (and classified) information about the US engagement in Afghanistan and much

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Are you working towards PCI-DSS compliance ? Are you engaged in continuous improvement of your PCI certified processes ? Then it is time to include best practices in Information Rights Management (IRM) as part of your document management (DM) or data leak prevention (DLP) efforts in the security processes.The PCI_DSS standard prescribes 12 principles and an accompanying set of detailed

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Computing has moved out of the cubicle and is mobile. Devices are increasingly small, power packed and conveniently mobile. The desktop has shrunk into a handheld smartphone or an iPad wannabe tablet PC. These devices provide the user with the power to stay in touch and on top of everything in the organization, globally, from any (internal or external) location.A few data breaches reported in the

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It is a common practice among employees or contract personnel who are leaving the organization, to carry data from network resources and to their next job. The departing employee copies data without thinking that the action amounts to theft of company assets.Until the day the person is caught, as it happened with this lawyer in Vakola, Mumbai who copied about 4000 documents from the file server

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Data leakage, theft, hacking, compromise, accidental / intentional disclosure are here to stay and it is the responsibility of the employer / owner organization and the user to collectively ensure security while ‘at rest’ and when ‘in transit’.Policies and procedures require users to ingrain best practices into their work culture but there is always the risk of human error or a slip-up even in

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Yesterday (4/27/10), breaking news across all media channels, was about the arrest of a Ms Madhuri Gupta working as Second Secretary at the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, on charges of spying. Initial investigations have revealed that she had been passing on information to her local handlers for over two and a half years. The motivation was revenge or ‘trying to prove herself’ against her

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Companies worldwide are embracing a slew of new technologies to automate security functions in the face of threats and risks that increase exponentially with each new advance. Data assets must be protected throughout the lifecycle of creation-storage-transmission-use-archival and deletion and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions are increasingly deployed for this purpose. DLP solutions provide

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Data is the new-age asset and is at risk from insiders and outsiders who may try every ruse in the book to steal. Personal data, ideas, plans, designs, patents, formulae financial information and such data have ready takers among your competition or in the underground market. Or worse, your data may be used to start up a new competitor! No wonder, information security grows increasingly important

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The idea of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) or Electronic Health Records (EHR) started 40 years ago and has been gaining wide acceptance over the last few years. And with the Obama administration set to convert every American’s medical file into EMR by the year 2014, they have received further impetus. The benefits of EMR are promising – easy and speedy check of patient records, minimal risk of

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Hear it from Vishal Salvi, Chief Information officer HDFC bank

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Is the economic downturn turning employees into data thieves? Shockingly, the answer is, YES! Those who have served the company with most sincerity can change their loyalty once a layoff notice is served. And their most potential weapon to get back to the company is the vast amount of confidential data available with them. They may sell it off for money, use it to get a job in a rival company,

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Organizations world wide are striving to protect their most critical asset – data. During the daily work process there is mass amount of bulk and individual transactions that takes place. These transactions have critical information that is shared between internal employees, external vendors (for data entry and bill printing) and customers. Information is shared via different mediums like emails,

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In a recent Global Security Survey conducted by Deloitte, 56% of respondents reported that they'd had data breach trouble more than once in the past year with a trusted vendor.While a lot of "post mortem" followed, the obvious measure to be implemented finds little or no mention.Providers of information are primarily responsible for its appropriate use. This is more important in case of

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These days, you don’t need to buy a ticket to watch a movie. A day after its release, you’ll invariably find any blockbuster in one of those sharing websites, ready to be downloaded for free. Count the amount of money that the industry is losing every year.Why only cinema? Buying music albums has been reduced to a joke today, with almost everyone downloading music from websites. And if at all

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Recently, Vishal Gupta had written an article about Information Security Regulations in India, and what steps need to be taken to make them effective. Here is an excerpt of the article:Today, no business can run without information, be it i.e. names, addresses, account numbers – about employees, customers, business partners. So the enterprises should also bear the responsibility of keeping all

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Remember our last blog post about how HEARTLAND credit card payment processor was forced to admit a security breach that could impact 100 million people? Well, if you were lucky enough not to get caught up in that breach, there's apparently another one to worry about.Now during a sting operation, BBC reporters posing as fraudsters from London bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card

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Take this. The Credit Card you’re using can have its duplicate lying in some faraway city of the US, right at this moment! And before you jump the gun on your bank, let’s make it clear. They have nothing to do with it. And neither does any other bank in the world (that includes almost every bank that offers a Credit card). The victim’s name here is, Heartland.The two global Credit Card giants,

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Guest blog from Animesh Parihar - Global Delivery Head (SAP) and member of Seclore Advisory Board Business…. today is not sustained by a single organization. It is built on a complex eco-system interwoven with vendors on one side and customers on the other. Organizations need to share information not only with internal employees but also externally with contractors, vendors and other business

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The Mumbai attacks, among other things, are a lesson to all of us on the importance of protecting the usage of technology and information. A laundry list of technologies used by the terrorists before and during the attacks includes:1. GPS devices – For steering the sea vehicle as they approached Mumbai. None of the terrorists have been known to get a formal training in sea faring but they were

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Exactly 5 months 23 days back your client had sent you an estimate via mail. Today, suddenly they wake up in the search of the ‘important’ document and bombard you with mails and calls. But where is it? After 20 minutes of searching through the folders and mails, with different keywords, you finally recover it from trash mail folder, send it and breathe easy. Wait! Did we say 20 minutes? Think if

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) form an inherent part of a maturing industry. Information breaches before and during M&As pose intellectual property, financial & regulatory risks and also could affect business competetiveness. The risks are enhanced because M&A activity typically involves almost all confidential informaiton of the company i.e. Financial information, customer contracts,

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It had been quite a few weeks that they were burning the midnight oil. Weekends cancelled, holidays postponed, diet reduced to cups of coffee. And at last, when the big idea finally dawned, they went straight to Lindex, the client, with the pitch. The big dream though, came down in crashes, when they were told the idea was not fashionable enough for the brand.But the true shock registered after a

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Let’s start with a small story. On February 23, Andrew Arai, a laboratory chief of the National Institute of Health in Washington DC, was taking his daughter to a swim meet, when his laptop was stolen from his car trunk. He reported the incident to NIH and they called it a random theft. And now comes the catch. The laptop contained clinical research data of 2500 medical volunteers, including very

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Each of us, who has opened a bank account or applied for a loan, knows first-hand how much private information banks require from their customers. These include addresses, PAN numbers, credit-card numbers, driver's license information, email IDs, phone numbers, salary slips and loads of other financial data. While some of this is required for carrying out transactions, others mandatory by

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As early as 2004, the US Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University published the first of series reports on threats of data leakage from inside the enterprise. The report examined corporate data thefts and identified that 84% of data thefts are the result of insiders sending confidential information outside the company. Recently, Lending Tree informed its customers of a potential compromise

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Disclaimers are virtually part of every email that comes to you from corporate houses. Three main reasons for disclaimers in corporate emails are legal protection, confidentiality and regulatory compliance.Most e-mail disclaimers are not disclaimers really, but actually address issues such as confidentiality, privacy and access. To add to the legal confusion, most e-mail disclaimers are

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In this post we describe real life scenarios of the measures (sometimes in vain) that customers are taking to make the whole outsourcing process secure and suggest practical methods of making security simple & low cost.The case of a financial services company outsourcing part of its information process...Due to the explosive growth in number of customer accounts the financial services company

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The burgeoning outsourcing industry has very quickly made clients vary of the security concerns even in the stable state of outsourcing.The security risks and appropriate counter measures can be classified into three segments i.e.The Human Element : Each person in the outsourced operation, including an enterprise's employees responsible for the operation as well as the (sometimes) thousands

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One thing that has always been on our minds is the question about how much do information leaks actually cost. Lets take the recent example of the LG employee leaking $1B of secrets to some Chinese manufacturer .. Now while it might be very easy to figure out facts like whether the person actually worked for LG or actually leaked the information, it must be very difficult to figure out what is

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Normally, when we share information, we also end up sharing control over the information i.e. If A sends someone a document to B, Bis free to do whatever he/she deems appropriate with it .. view it, print it, edit it or forward it to someone else.Enterprise Information Rights Management (IRM) technologies like Seclore FileSecure make it possible to separate control from content. This means that

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After many hours and nights of discussion the new SecLore logo and branding was finally released yesterday. What does the logo have to represent anyway? Should it be representative of the company’s products and origins, the name of the company, the underlying values, shareholder expectations or something else?We finally decided on an image which represents the company’s value to its customers.The

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