Liquid Machines Information Brief - Beyond Full Disk Encryption

Every organization is dedicated to protecting information. The increasing number of solutions that place locks on the containers which store the information such as full disk encryption, are without doubt, an important part of a layered security approach. However, they only solve part of the problem because they are limited to protecting information at rest. In order to truly protect valuable or sensitive information, experts agree that the closer security is applied to the information it is protecting, the more effective it can be. This is because most information is actively shared and used by multiple individuals, which means it may travel from user to user, machine to machine, find its way onto storage devices, email attachments, and so on. Enterprise rights management solutions combine information-level encryption with additional controls that determine what a user can do with it, and detailed audit trails of who accessed or changed protected files.