Microsoft has selected content deliver network SyncCast as an early developer for information rights management based on Windows Rights Management programming and technology, SyncCast announced September 16.
Planning to call their product SecureSync, SyncCast said they're aiming for a simplified solution that will let corporations and government entities control who sees sensitive communications.
SyncCast said the technology will help solve crucial problems with information security, especially the accidental release of "sensitive company information" by such means as e-mail forwarding. "The problem in the past has been that once the information got out anyone could read it," said SyncCast vice president of business development Ezra Davidson, announcing the Microsoft deal. "With our SecureSync Technology, emails and other company communication can only be opened by someone within the company's trusted community. So even if someone got a hold of a sensitive company document, they wouldn't be able to read its contents."
Chief executive officer Lance Ware said the "inherent weaknesses of the Internet" leaves businesses and even governments vulnerable to sensitive information leaks they can't control. He said SecureSync will let businesses or governments share encrypted information internally with far less risk of leaks and far easier deployment and use.
Neither Ware nor Davidson were available for further comment before this story went to press, but Microsoft said letting a company like SyncCast develop technology based on their Windows solutions answered a need, expressed by customers, to keep sensitive information internal but letting those they want to see it do so.
"Building solutions that help facilitate that principle in a flexible way for authors and recipients," said Windows Security group general manager John Manferdelli, "will add real value to the management of information inside companies and organizations and we're glad to partner with SyncCast in this effort."
