Rights Management Services (RMS)

• Rights Management Services (RMS) This actually refers to Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), Microsoft’s IRM technology. Microsoft uses the acronym AD RMS to describe the product that delivers IRM functionality. This is a brand name, therefore, this term should not be used to describe rights management in the broader sense.

• Information rights management (IRM) As you are already aware, in this book we’ve chosen to use this term, which is generally descriptive and provides a conceptual separation from the problematic and unpopular DRM technologies, even if it is just in name, and even then only by one word.