Intellectual Property (IP), as would be expected, is an extremely
important component for any successful engineering organization. Should such IP
get leaked, the organization in question could lose industry respect, income,
and its overall competitive advantage.
Larsen and Toubro, better known as L&T, a much-respected
engineering organization based out of India, boasts its Electrical and
Electronics Division (EBG) as one of its core business divisions. Specializing
in the manufacturing of electrical systems, energy meters, automation
solutions, medical equipment and petroleum dispensing pumps, L&T’s EBG engineers
have focused on leading the industry in plastic design, achieving particular
quality in plastic moldings and other design secrets.
While the EBG division had some security measurements already in
place, there was a gap between what was wanted by the organization and what was
available in the market. L&T explored various alternate security measures
and considered Information Rights Management (IRM) as a viable solution. L&T
further studied various IRM solutions for their strengths and weakness.
During its extensive research, L&T EBG came across Seclore’s
FileSecure, an IRM solution that had what L&T considered several strengths
over other competitive offerings in the IRM space. Seclore’s FileSecure offered
protection for more than 115 document formats, protected information by
defining, implementing and auditing usage rights, allowing owners of documents
to control usage of documents before and even long after the documents have
been circulated. Shared documents can be controlled for 'who' has access to the
documents; 'what' the person can do with the documents (view, edit, print,
forward);'when' the person can use them; 'where' (in the office, at home) can
they use them. Since security travels with information, the protection stays
even after information moves out of the organization’s boundaries, with the protection
rights able to be changed at any time.
After comparing Seclore FileSecure with a host of other IRM
solutions, L&T’s EBG division came to the conclusion that Seclore’s
FileSecure satisfied all of L&T’s security requirements, and proceeded to
implement a pilot project to evaluate its effectiveness in actual production
environment.
Within 10 days, L&T’s EBG division was more than satisfied
with the results and went live with Seclore FileSecure. Since L&T already
had a classification system in place due to SAP implementation, getting Seclore
FileSecure on board meant that all L&T had to do was extend the security of
classification by defining and implementing usage rights, as in who can do what,
when and where. L&T EBG then installed the Seclore FileSecure client on 200
machines and offered protection rights to seven users, with more on the horizon.
Based on L&T EBG’s satisfaction with Seclore FileSecure, the
company plans to create policies for IRM and is proposing to extend usage of
FileSecure beyond engineering IP all the way to purchasing processes. L&T
EBG also has started to use FileSecure to secure tender documents and requests
for proposals with IRM policies to control when these can be accessed, and is
in the process of extending usage of Seclore FileSecure to other divisions
besides EBG, including marketing and production.
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