Protecting Proprietary Data

The leak of four unreleased movies as well as contracts with freelancers and celebrities strikes at the heart of Sony Pictures Entertainment's intellectual property. This is data that should have some safeguards, though in high tech and entertainment companies, security often comes second or third to the open systems, file sharing and tools designed to foster greater collaboration. One solution provider suggests that stronger digital rights management could ensure that unreleased movies could face destruction after a certain time period or if a command is triggered. Other safeguards include encryption assigning system privileges for content meant for a limited number of employees. Privilege management can be effective by limiting the number of systems and applications certain employees have access to, but undertaking a privilege management project is costly a costly with results that impact both IT and business operations.