Microsoft® AD Rights Management Services (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 the firewall. Organizations and information workers can define exactly how recipients can use the information, such as who can open, modify, print, forward, and/or take other actions. Organizations can create custom usage policy templates, such as “Confidential – Read Only” that can be applied directly to information, such as financial reports, product specifications, customer data, and e-mail messages. RMS augments an organization’s security strategy by providing information protection through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information, no matter where it goes.
Better Safeguard for Sensitive Information
RMS enables organizations to achieve critical information security goals through better safeguarding of sensitive information. Programs such as word processors, e-mail clients, and line-of-business applications can be RMS enabled to help safeguard sensitive information. Document content is encrypted with Advance Encryption Standard (AES) cryptography. Workers can choose from a variety of usage rights to define exactly how the recipient can use the information and how long. When a recipient attempts to access rights-protected information, an entry is made into a database that records the attempt. This allows organizations to audit that log in order to identify approvals and denials by employees.
Persistent Protection
RMS augments existing perimeter-based security solutions, such as firewalls and Access Control Lists (ACLs), for better information protection by binding the usage rights to the document itself, controlling how information is used even after it has been opened by intended recipients. The publishing license, which defines the rights is encrypted and placed into the file. This means that protection travels with the information, wherever it goes.
Flexible and Customizable Technology
Using the Windows RMS software development kit (SDK) and industry standard extensible rights Markup Language (XrML) (www.xrml.org), independent software vendors and developers can make almost any application RMS enabled.
How Neorithm can help RMS customers
Xeusmatrix
The xeusmatrix allows customers to
• enforce classifications when the documents are being saved or mails being sent.
• Integration of classification with RMS templates to enable automatic protection of data based on classification.
• Print control – ensure that the document / mail is printed only specified number of times.
• View Control – ensure that the document/mail is viewed/ opened only for specified number of times.
• Location control – which can open, from which IP range or network/ machine.
• Xerxis enables organization to extend RMS to other file-formats like pdf, design documents, images, etc.
Plug-in Division
RMS remains the base for our solution. Our plug-ins are divided into 3 segments:
Business Productivity
This product caters to file-formats like pdf, open office, notepad etc.
Line Of Business Apps
This category caters to LOB apps like auto cad, engineering design doc etc.
Media files
This category caters to media files like any audio and video files for which
codecs are available.
HTML
Protect the Web content by converting them automatically into RMS protected format which would be rendered by Internet Explorer. This solution minimizes manually coding and converting web pages into rights managed HTML format.