Overview

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.

Key Benefits

• Improved data protection performance
• More effectively utilizing all resources
• Recognition for IT process improvement
• Reduce business disruption or failure
• Reduce costs associated with audit response
• Improved IT credibility

Methodology

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

Information categorization

COE Security solution components, such as COE Forensic Storage and Linguistic Analysis Technology, 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

COE 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.

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