Not claiming to be an expert here, but I'd say it depends on the particular organization's needs, including such factors such as price, ease of use, ease of deployment, ease and flexibility of central management, etc.
Not sure if rights mgmt protects against the kinds of things that FDE protects against (like protecting against juicy information appearing in the page files), but the comprehensive nature of the security solution might play a role as well. I'm thinking that RM would do a better job protecting against people sending secret docs via email (due to carelessness or malice), whereas FDE (or file-based encryption like EFS) protects the data due to physical theft of a computer, external drive, USB flash memory, etc. Above all, a data security solution must be convenient and extensible. If not, people won't use it, or won't adhere to it. "Transparent" encryption options (again, FDE, EFS, etc) provide a nice option for a lot of people. I'm assuming there are RM suites that are reasonably transparent to end-users. If so, adoption and greater security of business and consumer data is more likely. In conclusion, I'm not sure that it matters which data security solution an organization chooses to adopt, provided that that solution provides sufficient protection and a reasonable level of convenience for the end-user. - Garrett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ali, Saqib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cryptography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:16 PM Subject: [FDE] Enterprise Right Management vs. Traditional Encryption Tools >I was recently asked why not just deploy a Enterprise Right Management > solution instead of using various encryption tools to prevent data > leaks. > > Any thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
