IRM

IRM

Information Rights Management. IRM refers to a Microsoft Office technology that enables a document author to control who can access the document. It is intended as a means of control over who can view sensitive information. IRM can be applied to documents, emails, spreadsheets etc created using Office 2003 (or later).

cf DRM.

For more information see:

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011401841033.aspx - Overview of Information Rights Management, from Microsoft.
• http://everything.explained.at/Information_Rights_Management - Information Rights Management Explained.
• www.brandoncross.co.uk/information_rights_management.html - Explains when to use IRM, and how IRM work; from Brandon Cross Technologies.