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Preventing data leakage in a corporate environment?

Asked by David Senette, Tennessee - March 11, 2010

We're a company comprised of 22 separate North American locations with roughly 2,500 users. We've also got a multinational presence that probably numbers in the 20k user range. We use various versions of Windows server products and Windows desktop OS's. We are currently researching VASTLY expensive products to prevent data leakage by preventing printing on specific documents for specific users, prevent transfers to USB (or only allow to approved devices for approved users), prevent emailing, etc.. etc.. while educating the user about their infraction. It would be great to have some really quantitative advice on how Microsoft RMS (Rights Management Services) can be used to augment standard file share permissions to effect control over the full document life cycle. Can anyone provide that advice?

Topics: Applications , Infrastructure Management , Security

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  • I havent looked much at the new version of RMS, but I did look quite a lot at the previous version for a project I was involved in at the time.

    RMS certainly has some really great features, but there were a couple of things that put the client off at the time:

    1 - it worked great with MS file types, everything else needed another product and the client wanted a single solution, which just didnt exist

    2 - the information about who could do what which each file was added, per person, to each file. Now this information only added a very small amount of size to the file, but if you are talking about a lot of users the file size would go up a lot (not sure if that is still the case or not)

    3 - the remote access side of things was not very nice (again, at the time).

    Sorry I cant be of much more help, this was a few years ago!

    Andrew Edney
    UsingWindowsHomeServer.com
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