IRM (Information Resource Management) allows organizations and individuals to control access and usage of confidential information. IRM enforces restrictions on documents, workbooks, and presentations by storing permission data within the files themselves. This prevents unauthorized copying, forwarding, printing, or sharing of restricted content regardless of where the files are accessed. While IRM secures data transmission and usage according to policies, it cannot prevent content from being stolen, lost to viruses or malware, or copied through screen captures or unauthorized programs.

1. INTRODUCTION TO IRM
Information Resource Managment

2. The Purpose Of IRM And
Limitations
This helps prevent
sensitive information from
being printed, forwarded,
or copied by unauthorized
people. IRM also helps
organizations enforce
corporate policy governing
the control and
dissemination of
confidential or proprietary
IRM helps individuals enforce their
personal preferences regarding the
transmission of personal or private
information.
After permission for a file has been
restricted by using IRM, the access
and usage restrictions are enforced
regardless of where the information is,
because the permission to a file is
stored in the document, workbook, or
presentation file itself.

3. IRM is also known by following
names:
 Document Rights
Management
 Intelligent Rights
Management
 Enterprise Rights
Management
 Enterprise DRM or
Enterprise Digital Rights
Management

4. IRM Secures Data……
IRM is a technology which allows for information (mostly in the form of
documents) to be ‘remote controlled’.

5. IRM Helps To Do Followings :
It is
sometimes
referred to
as E-DRM
or
Enterprise
Digital
Rights
Manageme
nt.
 Prevent restricted content from being copied by using the Print
Screen feature in Microsoft Windows.
 Enforce corporate policies that govern the use and dissemination of
content within the company.
 Support file expiration so that content in documents, workbooks, or
presentations can no longer be viewed after a specified period of
time.
 Prevent an authorized recipient of restricted content from forwarding,
copying, modifying, printing, faxing, or pasting the content for
unauthorized use.
 Restrict content wherever it is sent.

6. IRM Can’t Prevent The Following
:
 Content from being lost or corrupted because of the actions of computer
viruses.
 A recipient from taking a digital photograph of the restricted content
displayed on a screen.
 Restricted content from being copied by using third-party
screen-capture programs.
 Content from being erased, stolen, or captured and
transmitted by malicious programs such as Trojan horses,
keystroke loggers, and certain types of spyware.

7. Presented By Fahd
Information
Resource
Management