DRM could be making a comeback in the enterprise

Digital rights management might be coming back to the enterprise, experts say, as long as usability issues don’t get in the way.

You might remember the technology from a decade or so ago. Companies were worried about employees accidentally sending sensitive files to the wrong recipients — or to the right recipients, who then shared them with others without permission.

But it turned out that enterprises had much bigger security issues to worry about. Employees or partners accidentally sending a document to the wrong person accounted for less than 1 percent of all security incidents, according to the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.

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