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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEnterprise Rights Management: Sealing Data With Yet Another Lock
US Banker, March, 2007 by Glen Fest
When Goldman Sachs is working to nail an M&A or IPO deal, the firm knows even a hint of activity is enough to send markets scurrying and push competitors into position. Loose lips sink deals, so The Firm enforces strict internal lockdowns of data and documents that could otherwise seep out through emails and printouts.
But Goldman can't be so protective as to encumber its principals from getting access to required data. Deal details, compensation systems, market-risk reports-that data must be shielded without Fort Knox-like barricades before its "need-to-know" circle of brokers, traders and executives.
Goldman is well on its way to establishing a happy medium between security and workflow, with plans this year to wrap up pilot projects in enterprise rights...
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