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Information rights management

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Information rights management

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Let's revisit a concept that we've already talked about and mentioned a couple of times. First, data loss prevention. DLP is a program. Now, it could be a program, it could be an initiative, it could be an actual software solution. It could be an engine using a combination of hardware or software. Basically, it could be acceptable use policies by an end user. It could be software and hardware, it could be an agent running on an endpoint, but it all has the same goal, to stop the loss or leakage or theft of intellectual property, personal identifiable information, health information, any other sensitive data. Now on this exam, rights management is going to be information rights management, IRM, which is really a broader term than DRM. When we think of digital rights management, we're really just focused on digital content. But information rights management could apply to printed PDF files or other things that are in written format. So it's a more broader term, utilizing access control…

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