QYR Market Research Enterprise-DRM (Information Rights Management) | Page 3

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Information rights management (IRM) is a subset of digital
rights management (DRM), technologies that protect sensitive
information from unauthorized access. It is sometimes
referred to as E-DRM or Enterprise Digital Rights Management.
This can cause confusion, because digital rights management
(DRM) technologies are typically associated with business to
consumer systems designed to protect rich media such as music
and video. IRM is a technology which allows for information
(mostly in the form of documents) to be ‘remote controlled’.