Overview “Information security is becoming increasingly Country or Region: United States more important in today’s global business climate, Industry: Manufacturing and our new solution will help people do a good Customer Profile job in a complicated world.” Dow Corning is a global leader in based technology and innovation. The Mark Gandy, Enterprise Architect, Dow Corning company is in Midland, Michigan. Business Situation For Dow Corning, which has more than 4,000 patents, protecting Dow Corning needed to make it easy for its intellectual property (IP) is a business imperative. The employees to information while following the company’s information company is meeting that need with Active Directory® Rights protection policies, which dictate how Management Services in Windows Server® 2008, which provides intellectual property must be protected. identity-based information protection to help safeguard Solution information from unauthorized access and use. Usage rights and The company deployed Active Directory® Rights Management Services in Windows encryption follow content wherever it goes, and the same Server® 2008, which enables users to solution enables Dow Corning to protect documents, e-mail, and limit how others can open, modify, print, forward, or take other actions with content stored in SharePoint® libraries—and to share content. protected content with business partners. Deployed with Benefits minimal additional infrastructure, the solution integrates with Ease of use desktop programs and helps ensure ease of use for employees. Minimal added infrastructure and complexity At the same time, its scalability and ease of management will Extensibility to business partners help the company keep costs to a minimum while maintaining Full corporate control and auditability Ease of management full corporate control over rights-protected content. Low total cost of ownership
Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Manufacturing Customer Profile Dow Corning is a global leader in technology and innovation. The company is based in Midland, Michigan. Business Situation Dow Corning needed to make it easy for employees to information while following the company’s information protection policies, which dictate how intellectual property must be protected. Solution The company deployed Active Directory® Rights Management Services in Windows Server® 2008, which enables users to limit how others can open, modify, print, forward, or take other actions with content. Benefits Ease of use Minimal added infrastructure and complexity Extensibility to business partners Full corporate control and auditability Ease of management Low total cost of ownership “Information security is becoming increasingly more important in today’s global business climate, and our new solution will help people do a good job in a complicated world.” Mark Gandy, Enterprise Architect, Dow Corning For Dow Corning, which has more than 4,000 patents, protecting its intellectual property (IP) is a business imperative. The company is meeting that need with Active Directory® Rights Management Services in Windows Server® 2008, which provides identity-based information protection to help safeguard information from unauthorized access and use. Usage rights and encryption follow content wherever it goes, and the same solution enables Dow Corning to protect documents, e-mail, and content stored in SharePoint® libraries—and to share content with business partners. Deployed with minimal additional infrastructure, the solution integrates with desktop programs and helps ensure ease of use for employees. At the same time, its scalability and ease of management will help the company keep costs to a minimum while maintaining full corporate control over rights-protected content. protected
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