Windows Rights Management Services: Helping Organizations Safeguard Digital Information from Unauthorized Use
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Summary
This paper provides an overview of Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. RMS is information protection technology that works with RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use—both online and offline, inside and outside of the firewall.
The dramatic rise in cyber crime and the emergence of related new legislative requirements point to the need for better means to protect digital information. While organizations such as financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and professional services firms address many security concerns adequately, their strategies usually focus on access and delivery of information. To augment perimeter-based (firewalls, repositories) or transport-based (encrypted delivery) security technologies, organizations also need to better protect information after it has been accessed by or delivered to an authorized individual, helping to prevent sensitive information from intentionally or accidentally getting into the wrong hands.
Included in This Document
| • | Safeguarding Digital Information in an Increasingly Connected World |
| • | Why Current Solutions Cannot Address This Growing Problem |
| • | Introducing RMS in the Windows Platform |
| • | Windows RMS Components |
| • | RMS Workflow |
| • | The Benefits of RMS |
| • | Flexible and Customizable Technology |
| • | Maintaining Existing Investments |
| • | Summary |
| • | Appendix: The Emerging Standard for RMS Interoperability |
| • | How XrML Works |
| • | Related Links |
