Simon Thorpe

A recent debate internally was discussing how to find a solution to prevent administrators accessing sensitive documents stored in a system, yet at the same time retain their ability to perform administration. This requirement is often referred to as the... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Just before Oracle Open World 2008 I spoke with a customer who is researching technologies which can help them secure sensitive documents and emails within their organization. I went to see them with our Information Rights Management product manager, Andy... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Sometimes I use this blog to mention other cool technologies and today I was invited to participate in the beta of a very, very cool new piece of software. Bumptop. Words don't really do it justice, you need to watch... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

" target="_blank">Trent Henry, an analyst from the Burton Group, has recently blogged about the future of what it refers to as Enterprise Digital Rights Management (E-DRM), more commonly these days refered to as IRM. Trent blogs his views on... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Cisco have just released a study into the behavior of corporate employees and their attitudes to security. The study was designed to understand behavior rather than look at the use of technology. John N. Stewart, chief security officer of Cisco... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

It seems to be happening every week, sensitive information is being lost from health care organizations. This time email is the culprit. BlueCross & BlueShield of Louisiana have had to publicly announce details of an incident where a document was... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

This question came up recently where someone was trying to sync a users rights with the Oracle IRM desktop from the IRM server. The environment was all hosted inside a VMWare image and unfortunately due to the nature of the... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Once again Beehive has been demonstrated to be an excellent example of how Oracle IRM can be integrated to extend security well beyond the confines of the application. We love Beehive, and it seems that Beehive loves us. We are... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Well it has been very, very busy here at Open World and i've not been able to get my blogs written as fast as I would like and I resisted the urge to write rubbish into the pages in a... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Well it's the end of the first full day of Oracle Open World 2008 and i'm shattered. This morning we saw an excellent keynote around the new collaboration server from Oracle, Beehive. Part of this included a demonstration which had... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Charles Phillips and Chuck Rozwat during their Open World keynote speech today demonstrated how an IRM integration has been prototyped to protect documents that are stored in a Workspace within Beehive. They described security as one of the main features... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Oracle Open World 2008 starts today in downtown San Francisco. No expense spared as they close off Howard Street for the entire duration of the event. Wednesday evening Treasure Island, in the middle of the bay, will host concerts... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

A recent article in the Teesdale Mercury reports, unfortunately, another instance of patient data falling into the wrongs hands. The press is constantly reporting issues of confidential patient information being hacked, lost, stolen, misused. This highlights a common problem... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Here is one website you do not want your company name to appear on, http://datalossdb.org/. What is it? "DataLossDB, formerly the Attrition.org Data Loss Database Open Source, is an research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

The Daily Telegraph, a UK newspaper, has just reported on some research done by the Ponemon Institute for Dell computers. The research has found that in a year about 800,000 laptops are either lost or stolen at airports all... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

I spend quite a bit of time travelling and my iPod/iPhone are usually topped up with plenty of Podcasts. After laughing through Russell Brand, Chris Moyles and NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" I get my fix of weekly technology... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Wow, another release of our Oracle IRM technology this year! This isn't as significant as the previous version but it has some cool new features. You can upgrade your existing Oracle IRM Desktop to this latest release for free by... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Note: You will need to register an account on our Oracle IRM server and have installed the Oracle IRM Desktop to see the example sealed images in this article. Oracle IRM has a wide list of supported formats, from Office... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

Since 2002 the Oracle IRM technology has supported persistent control and protection of the common Microsoft Office formats, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. In 2008 we released the latest iteration of this mature integration, improving further the end user experience and... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html

One very useful feature of information rights management technologies is the ability to place dynamic fields or watermarks into IRM-protected (sealed) content. If the end user accessing the sealed document has been assigned the rights to print, these dynamic watermarks... Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/irm/about.html