Simon Thorpe

Security solutions that are poorly designed and difficult to use don't work, if security presents a significant hurdle for user adoption, it simply won't get used and people will just workaround it. With this in mind, I had an excellent... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

A customer recently asked how do they handle the following; A document which is in IRM protected folder A is now moved to IRM protected folder B. In such a case what will happen to the classification tied to the... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Last week we had a great attendance to our online webcast. For those that were not able to attend and would like to listen at their own pace, an archive of the webcast is available. We do however have... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

A frequently asked question is: "What happens when the person who encrypted a number of files leaves the organization?". The concern behind the question is that an organization might find itself locked out of its own information assets, with critical... martin.abrahams

Released today is the latest version of the client software in the Oracle IRM technology suite, the IRM Desktop. As part of the move of the technology into Oracles Fusion Middleware platform the new release now supports the following 27... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

A bit late notice, but i've just been asked to attend the Gartner IAM summit in San Diego next week. I'll be available to discuss and demonstrate Oracle Information Rights Management, details of the summit below. Oracle is a Premier... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Whilst responding to an RFI I needed to describe how information rights management was positioned against many other types of technologies that use encryption to protect documents and emails. I thought it would make sense to write up the response... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Over the weekend a document containing confidential information from one of the most secretive panels in Congress was floating about on an peer-to-peer network. Apparently a junior member of staff went home to work on the memo and stored the... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Finally I gave in, too many people kept saying... "you should have a twitter feed for your blog updates". Many in Oracle are embracing modern methods for communicating information about our technology and I decided to jump on the... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Oracle has built an excellent website for people to share sample code and personal projects with the Oracle community. Over the coming months we are going to be sharing a lot of code we have been using for many years... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Just a quick note to say that within the next 2 weeks we will be releasing version 10.1.3.5.2 of the Oracle IRM Desktop. This desktop comes with the following updates; Support for the recently released Windows 7 operating system Support... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

This morning Symantec announced the latest incarnation of their data loss prevention (DLP) technology, version 10. DLP technologies allow organizations to do discovery and monitoring of enterprise perimeters to detect the flow of sensitive information. When DLP detects something... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

We've just announced two webcasts for Oracle IRM, one in November and one in December. Click on the registration links below to join me live for a presentation and demonstration of information rights management done Oracle style :) Secure Your... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Wow, a busy two days at Oracle Open World. All the IRM team are around the demoGrounds booth W105 in Moscone West helping customers and the public learn about Oracle IRM working with the wide range of Oracle applications, content... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

When talking with customers they often ask if Oracle IRM is a DRM technology. I thought I would therefore go over the main differences between the consumer technology world of DRM and the business world of IRM (or ERM/EDRM). First... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

There has been a lot of partner activity with IRM recently, more information will be coming out over the next few months. Right now one partner in Germany, Sealed Solutions GmbH, has just teamed up with a vulnerability assessment and... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

A central concept of the Oracle IRM solution is the security context. So what are contexts and how do they help you protect sensitive information in a secure, usable, and manageable way? In the Oracle IRM solution, a context represents... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

I was recently approached with a problem where an organization wanted to tie encryption directly to a smart card which the user carried with them. The requirement was that the device stored the cryptography keys that would be used in... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Once again the health care industry is struggling to maintain control over sensitive information. The Boston Globe reported this week that the largest health insurer in Massachusetts, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield association, had to warn 39,000 of... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

It has been a while since I commented on a data loss incident. I've been concentrating on documenting more about how Oracle IRM works and some of the features. However the past few days have seen an almost http://www.techspot.com/news/36361-google-ordered-to-disable-email-account-after-bank-sues.html" target="_blank">farcical... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html