Table of contents

1 Matching policies to the sensitivity

level of data

2 Enforcing and controlling sensitive

information assets

3 Manually securing sensitive

documents

3 Adding protection to

system-generated documents

4 Working securely with Microsoft

PowerPoint presentations

5 Managing access to Microsoft

Excel spreadsheets

5 Safeguarding content in

Microsoft Word

6 Protecting sensitive information

in PDF les

6 Securing collaboration among

engineering teams

8 Summary

Delivering an information

risk management

strategy across the

heterogeneous enterprise

Use Adobe® LiveCycle® Rights Management ES software to

proactively protect sensitive information resident in the most

widely used applications and les

White Paper

To succeed in today’s global economy, businesses face intense pressure to produce and deliver

better products and services to the market faster and more eciently. To achieve this, they need

to exchange sensitive information eciently and extend their business processes to include

partners and suppliers across industries and geographies with diverse regulatory environments.

Organizations should proactively initiate an information risk management strategy to understand

and prioritize risk in a consistent and repeatable way, and then target solutions that map risk

proles to protection levels. Information-centric solutions such as Adobe LiveCycle Rights

Management ES enable this type of strategy by proactively protecting and controlling sensitive

information at the source based on business policy, regardless of where the information resides

or ows inside or outside the enterprise.

Ultimately, the lines-of-business and legal and compliance departments are not concerned with

what documents or le types the sensitive information resides in, but they do require that the

most sensitive information assets are discovered, protected, and ultimately audited to prove

compliance. With this in mind, Adobe’s Rights Management ES solution provides broad coverage

for the most commonly used documents and le types for sensitive information in the enterprise,

including Microso Oce, PDF, and CAD les, enabling protection based on consistent policies

set by the lines-of-business and legal and compliance departments, and executed by IT.

Matching policies to the sensitivity level of data

e term “policy management” is oen overused, but meaningful in deploying a successful

information risk management strategy. Information-centric policies have typically been the

by-product of corporate or government bylaws that are rarely implemented in practice. However,

with the advent of technologies like LiveCycle Rights Management ES, the lines-of-business

can work in conjunction with legal, compliance, and IT to bring information-centric policy

management to life in the enterprise.