What is Rights Management?
Rights management pertains directly to managing permissions for individuals to access specific information. Our two jargon busting acronyms for this area are DRM (Digital Rights Management) and IRM (Information Rights Management). For the purposes of this article we will consider both DRM and IRM one in the same.
Development of this area of technology primarily driven by Copyright. Publishers of books, music and films have in recent years been more and more motivated to try to protect their material, in the face of the proliferation of internet use. The Internet has been it exponentially more possible to share copyrighted materials with the click of a button, and not to just one person, but hundreds of people, even one’s that the sharer has never even met. The need to control who has the right to access, read, modify or even delete information and also become prominent in both government and commercial organisations.
Microsoft AD RMS – Active Directory Rights Management Services
Controlling content is at the heart of fulfilling those requirements, and Microsoft provides an Active Directory integrated service ADRMS, to do exactly that. The basis of the AD RMS service is that each document is automatically encrypted by an RMS client, at the point of creation (the desktop). It is then, by default, protected from unauthorised individuals trying to access it. When created, the creator is able to apply a list of permissions to the document, to specify who have what level of access to read or change it. These permissions are stored in the central AD RMS server, so at the time any other client tries to access the document, the server can be queried to see if the requested access should be permitted. Simple enough? Continue reading Microsoft AD RMS: User Adoption Made Simple →
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