2005 · 26 citations · 4 references
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is primarily used to protect multimedia products for consumers, and several DRM products also target enterprise document protection, but none fully meet all enterprise needs or deliver all potential benefits. The study seeks to outline DRM benefits for enterprises, define essential requirements for an enterprise DRM system, and assess how well three existing products meet those requirements. The authors evaluate three existing enterprise DRM products against the defined requirements. They find that enterprise DRM systems have not yet matured, with many requirements unmet.
Digital Rights Management or DRM has been mainly used to provide access control protection for multimedia products marketed to consumers, like music and movies. There are also a number of DRM products, like Authentica and Microsoft’s RMS, that aim to protect documents for enterprises. However, none of these products provide for all the needs of an enterprise, and furthermore these products do not offer all the benefits that DRM potentially offers to an enterprise. In this paper we discuss what DRM offers to enterprises, examine the base requirements for an enterprise DRM system and then analyse how well three existing enterprise DRM products satisfy the requirements of an enterprise DRM system. We have found that enterprise DRM systems have yet to mature with many requirements not satisfied.
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