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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

Modern business’ sustainability and efficiency to a great extent depends on how well their intellectual property is protected. According to the reports of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) companies are losing billions of dollars from trade secret theft annually.

Trade secrets, according to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), include formulas, patterns, compilations, program devices, methods, techniques, or processes. They also can be diagrams and flow charts, supplier data, pricing data and strategies, source code, marketing plans and customer information. For every specific company the contents of the terms intellectual property and trade secrets are unique and closely related to its business-field specifics.

With so many data types that could constitute a trade secret, there is a good chance that employees may not even know they are handling intellectual property.

 

General approach to intellectual property protection

  1. Precise understanding of what comprises intellectual property for your company. If all employees understand what specific data needs to be protected, they can better understand how to protect it, and whom to protect it from.

  2. Information prioritization: what information, if lost, would hurt your business most. Implementation of various information protection tools is always a trade-off between security and smooth business continuity and is done through risk and cost-benefit analysis.

  3. Sensitive data labeling. Confidential information should be marked with a label, explicitly stating it confidential. This simple procedure not only helps minimizing human errors, but can come really helpful in the court, should a data breach occur.

  4. Employee education regarding information security principles. Humans are often the weakest link in the defensive chain, so educational measures are strongly recommended to minimize the possibility and impact of human errors and to increase information security level.

  5. Correct technological tools. The company should create a comprehensive data protection framework by implementing efficient targeted solutions, including data leakage prevention and encryption software.

  6. Constant results analysis will help you define the weak points of your security measures and infrastructure.

InfoWatch offer for intellectual property protection

InfoWatch data protection products help companies address the challenging task of intellectual property protection against unauthorized access, disclosure and distribution, by providing:

  • Information categorization

    InfoWatch solution components, such as InfoWatch Forensic Storage, Linguistic Analysis Technology and InfoWatch Autolinguist, are applied to categorize corporate information. This helps the customer save significant time in defining what exact information is sensitive and needs to be protected.

  • Data-in-motion and data-at-rest protection, detection (and prevention) of intellectual property leakage

    InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise monitors major data transmission channels and can block the transfer of messages containing intellectual property when they take an unapproved path. The solution features integration with modern digital rights management products, for example Oracle IRM, for enforced sensitive information encryption, thus protecting intellectual property against disclosure even in case of interception in the communication channel.

    InfoWatch CryptoStorage protects data stored on corporate servers, employee laptops, mass-storage devices, in virtual or cloud environments against unauthorized access via encryption.

  • Safe data archiving, reporting and investigation

    InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise includes a centralized protected archive InfoWatch Forensic Storage. All the information intercepted in the monitored communication channels is securely stored in this archive for further reporting and investigation. The integrated graphical reporting system clearly shows the specifics of sensitive information flow.

Customer benefits with InfoWatch solutions

The most obvious and direct return of investment from InfoWatch data protection solutions is preventing loss of intellectual property because of a data leak; however additional benefits include adherence to regulatory compliance and improvement to business operations or relationships management.

Organizations that have implemented InfoWatch solutions derive these extra values from their investment by refining business processes and improving operational inefficiencies as a result of the increased visibility they have into their information flows.