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Liquid Machines ITAR Case Study
A global producer of composite materials and manufacturer of composite parts and structures recently began a project of upgrading its document imaging system to a SharePoint-based platform. As part of this effort, engineering design documents were converted to PDF format for compatibility with a wide variety of systems.
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How Best-in-Class Companies Simultaneously Share and Protect Their Unstructured Data
How Best-in-Class Companies Manage to Serve and Protect, Aberdeen described how Best-in-Class organizations simultaneously go about sharing, protecting, and managing their sensitive unstructured data.
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Extending and Enhancing Microsoft RMS using Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management
This whitepaper provides a brief overview of how Liquid Machines enterprise rights management solutions work with and enhance Microsoft Rights Management Services deployment and administration.
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Aberdeen Research Brief - ERM:Persistence Pays Off
Enterprise Rights Management: Persistence Pays Off

The Research Brief focuses on how Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions help the companies with top performance to support an increased need for collaboration, while simultaneously safeguarding their sensitive data using data controls that persist throughout the extended enterprise.
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Enterprise Strategy Group: ERM - A Superior Approach to Information Protection and Control
Five of the top ten worst security breaches of all time occurred in 2007, underscoring the critical need for better security measures that protect sensitive data in today’s dynamic, highly-collaborative business environment.

Document sharing is a business necessity, but introduces the risk that sensitive information could fall into the wrong hands.

The expert information revealed in this Enterprise Strategy Group white paper includes:
- Best practices for information-centric security
- Investigation into approaches to increase control over and usage of electronic information
- Analysis of the limitations of traditional security technologies
- Attributes of effective document protection and control solutions
- Explanation of how ERM's plays a role in creating safer, more secure business operations
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Enterprise Strategy Group: The Business Case for Enterprise Rights Management
"Data privacy and security requirements grow more crucial and complex each day and status quo physical and technical controls are no longer enough. Point tools can help but large organizations quickly run into vulnerabilities and scaling issues. Clearly, something needs to be done – and soon."

- Jon Oltsik, Sr. Information Security Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
1. Enterprises Need Persistent Data Loss Prevention
2. The Case for Enterprise Rights Management
3. Liquid Machines: Profile of an ERM Leader
4. Best Practices for ERM Implementation
5. The Bottom Line
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ReymannGroup - Hidden Truth: How Information Management Mistakes Wreak Havoc in the Public Sector
This paper explores the emerging trends and risk that require federal, state, and local government agencies to adopt a culture of secure information management throughout the business practices of the public sector.

Table of Contents:

  1. Security is Beyond the Sole Domain of the CISO

  2. Public Sector Business Drivers for IT and Security Spending

  3. Protecting Information Regardless of Where it Resides

  4. ERM: An Information-Centric Approach

  5. Liquid Machines Profile

  6. Public Sector Case Study: A Practical Example
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The 451 Group identifies Liquid Machines as a key player in the convergence of IAM and DLP
Threatened with obscurity not so long ago, Liquid Machines is now angling for a more prominent role in the trend toward transparency and automation in how data is accessed –based on user, role, context and data classification. The company's strategy has multiple prongs, including a more intimate relationship with Microsoft (which also happens to be thinking more intensively about how its Rights Management Server fits into its unified security and access strategy), new products and an initiative to foster partnerships with data loss prevention vendors in order to expand its channels.
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451 Group Report on ERM and Liquid Machines
The past 12 months have driven the security industry to a critical inflection point. In the face of record-high cost and complexity paired with capex-frozen budgets and a down economy, nearly every enterprise is seeking simplification. There are simply too many point products, too many vendors, too many threats and too many compliance frameworks to possibly keep up. As these organizations seek to simplify, will they do so responsibly? Security in 2010 will be defined largely by three things: compliance, opex consumption and cloud. ...link to file
Liquid Machines 2007 Information Security Survey
The “Information Security Survey” is a global survey designed to provide insight into employee’s attitudes around and approaches to document security. The fifteen-question survey was completed over a one-month period by more than 900 individuals in more than 15 industry categories.

Key findings from the survey include:

* 45% of respondents have taken data when changing jobs.

* More than 50% believe the competition is stealing their IP.

* 39% of the respondents have printed a document to prevent electronic forwarding.
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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. ...link to file
Liquid Machines Solution Note - Addressing OMB Recommendations & NIST Guidance
On June 23, 2006, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum outlining recommended actions for all federal departments and agencies to properly safeguard information assets. These recommendations, to be in place within 45 days, are in addition to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)1 checklist for protection of remote information. This Solution Note discusses the recommendations outlined in these two documents and describes how Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management software can be deployed to immediately address these requirements. ...link to file
Liquid Machines Customer Success - Automatically Protecting DB Extracts
Learn how one Cabinet-level department automatically protects database extracts and controls the access, use, and distribution of the resulting unstructured data to comply with OMB mandated document security requirements using Liquid Machines ERM.
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Liquid Machines Customer Success - Pilz Automation & Safety Equipment
Learn how Pilz protects its industry leadership positions by protecting its intellectual property and sensitive information with Liquid Machines Document Control and Fileshare Gateway.
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Privacy Compliance & Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management
This whitepaper examines the issue of identity theft and how Liquid Machines ERM solutions can help your enterprise meet the information protection requirements outlined in regulations such as CA SB 1386, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and HIPAA. ...link to file
Liquid Machines & Windows RMS: End-to-end Enterprise Rights Management
Learn how Liquid Machines extends Microsoft® Windows® Rights Management Services (RMS) to place information control in the hands of the enterprise - enforcing protection based on corporate policies without restricting collaboration or user productivity. Enterprises can now protect emails and documents with corporate policies to prevent intellectual property loss and regulatory compliance violations. ...link to file
Patricia Seybold: Liquid Machines' Solutions for Managing Digital Rights on Electronic Desktops
This independent technology report and audit by the Patricia Seybold Group discusses the suitability of Liquid Machines ERM products to the growing enterprise need for a rights-management solution that can protect their sensitive and high-value documents, prevent information leakage, and eliminate potential violation of compliance regulations. ...link to file
The National Law Journal: Confidential Data - Mandatory Protection
In his article, Confidential Data - Mandatory Protection, in the May 23, 2005 edition of The National Law Journal, Nick Akerman, a partner in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney, stresses the urgency for companies to not only protect public information, but also non-public information, in the face of ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny and the growing risk of identity theft. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and NYSE's Listed Company Manual, among others, feature regulations requiring companies to take proactive steps in protecting their proprietary information.
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Export Control - Complying with ITAR using ERM
If you send information outside of the United States (e.g. outsourced manufacturing) or employ foreign workers or contractors, you may be governed by export regulations. Read this paper to learn how to prevent compliance violations. ...link to file
Liquid Machines Customer Success: Protecting Regulated Personal Information
Learn how one Cabinet-level department used Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management to prevent accidental and unauthorized leaks of regulated personal information, as required by government security regulations
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