QYR Market Research Global Enterprise-DRM (Information Rights Manageme | 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’.