While connectivity with existing ECM, DLP, ERP and EFSS will automate a great deal of the ‘rights attachment’ process (See Prediction #2), there will still be plenty of files you will need employees to manually protect. And here is where ease-of-use is essential to driving adoption of EDRM.
Vendors who have been in the EDRM space for many years know that streamlining every possible aspect of the user experience (both for the protector and recipient) is essential to adoption. For example, what happens when a protected document is sent to a group of users, and one of the users is new (hence, not authorized to access the document). How many steps does it take for that ‘new user’ to request access? How many steps does it take for the document owner to grant access? The ability to seamlessly handle these ‘dynamic access request’ situations and others like it will be crucial to ensuring employees adopt EDRM.
The next-generation EDRM offerings are relentlessly focused on ease-of use both from the protector and recipient’s perspectives. Ease-of-use capabilities in the areas of rapid user on-boarding, identity federation, multiple methods for attaching rights, dynamic access requests, single-click policy adjustments, and browser-based access to protected documents will be deemed essential ingredients for EDRM in 2016.
Prediction #1: The Need for File-Centric Security Is Greater Than Ever Before
Prediction #2: Automation Will Be Deemed Crucial to the Successful Adoption of EDRM
Prediction #3: Open, Pure-Play EDRM Will Thrive
Prediction #5: EDRM Will Play a Key Role in Protecting Data-at-Rest
Vishal comes with more than a decade of experience in sales, marketing and business management. He is the Founder and CEO of Seclore and handles corporate development, investor relations and strategic vision.
Vishal is an IIT Bombay (Electrical Engineering) graduate and a specialist in biometric security systems. His ideation in fingerprint imaging led to the development of the core technology behind Herald Logic, a company he founded in 2000. The company showed record 220% CAGR, spreading to Singapore, Australia and UK.
Vishal is also an active participant in physics activities with the IAPT (Indian Association of Physics Teachers) and NSEP (National Standard Examination in Physics), he is amongst the top 1% in the country in physics.
He is an active sports person, a keen blogger on information security solutions and an intrepid speaker at various information security forum.
