3BView Solution Finder - IP Protection
Trade secrets or Intellectual Property (IP) can be the most valuable asset a business owns. Let this IP be accidentally or maliciously leaked to the outside world, and you could be waving goodbye to your most valuable possession. Information in electronic documents must be guarded as carefully as any physical object, including the less obvious elements such as the hidden ‘metadata’ they contain.
According to CSO magazine’s 2007 E-crime Watch Survey, theft of intellectual property was the second most common e-crime, reported by 24% of respondents – making it more common than the theft of customer or financial data. And leaking confidential information in to the public domain can act as prior art, destroying any future patent cases.
Documented cases show that the cost of breaches in security around intellectual property can be extremely high. For example, Gary Min, a DuPont scientist, downloaded 22,000 abstracts and 16,000 full-text documents over a five-month period before leaving the company, before uploading some of these documents onto a corporate laptop from his new employer, a competitor of DuPont. The information was valued at over $400million. Read more here.
To prevent this kind of information loss, 3BView provides innovative solutions for the secure exchange of electronic communications and documents. In the Information Leak Prevention (ILP) market, 3BView has the most advanced technology and the easiest to use solutions.
Our products use advanced policy-based processing to monitor and control outbound electronic communications, for example to remove metadata accidentally left in a document before it is emailed, such as tracked changes or author names.
Find out more:
- Case studies
- 3BView’s white paper on Information Leak Prevention and metadata
- Our products for document transformation and archiving
- Our products
- Read about some costly examples of data leaks suffered by Google, AT&T, Merck and others.
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3BView News
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