Manufacturing

Today’s manufacturing firms face increasingly difficult challenges in terms of securing and protecting intellectual property (IP) and other confidential information.  While there are many best practice frameworks (e.g., ISO 9000) that can be used to optimize various aspects of manufacturing businesses, few provide useful guidance on protecting information. 

Two major challenges for manufacturing firms are regulatory compliance and information control.

 

Regulatory Compliance Challenges

• Corporate Governance
• Sarbanes-Oxley (esp. section 404)
• ITAR

Information Control Challenges

• Data Retention and Expiration
• Secure Communications 
• Secure RFP / Outsourcing
• Access Control / Data Theft Prevention

Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management helps solve these challenges. Using Liquid Machines, manufacturing firms can control critical information--whether it is IP contained in an RFP, IP relating to national defense, or corporate strategy documentation. Enterprise-defined policies can be defined and enforced based on employee location, departments, project teams or the nature of the data to avoid information leaks to the public or to competitors.  Policies can be changed easily, enabling the immediate expiration of any content, any time, anywhere to anyone.  Reports detail who accessed what information, and what they did with it.