Are you afraid of flying into the Cloud?

Are you afraid of flying into the Cloud?

within the information itself and is independent of the cloud platform or access device. The information can be

remotely monitored, controlled and can even be remotely destroyed if relationships change.

Seclore (www.seclore.com) is leader in area of Information Rights Management with over 3 Million users worldwide.

Seclore has received numerous accolades like being named the Gartner Cool Vendor for 2012 and Deloitte's Technology

Fast 50 for 2012. Seclore's solution is used by government agencies, banks and Fortune 500 companies globally.

Seclore FileSecure protects unstructured data like emails & documents while it is stored and shared on the cloud. The security is enabled by embedding the "usage policy" of information i.e.

WHERE can he use it from

Information can be linked to locations e.g. only 3rd floor office by

private/public IP addresses

WHAT can each person do

Individual actions like reading, editing, printing, distributing, copy-

pasting, screen grabbing etc. can be controlled

People & groups within and outside of the organization can be defined

as rightful users of the information

WHO can use the information

WHEN can he use it

Information usage can be time based e.g. can only be used by Mr. A till

25th Sept or only for the 2 days

Cloud Computing offers several advantages of cost and ease. Moving to the cloud however, requires upfront analysis of security, privacy and compliance

risks of information breaches. These risks can take the wind out of any cloud

initiative. Legal contracts and simple encryption appear to be the only options for

mitigating these risks but are inadequate at best.