San Mateo, Calif. – February 20, 2024- NextLabs today announced major enhancements to its SkyDRM product line, enabling uninterrupted collaboration across the extended enterprise. The enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) solution uses attribute-based policies with zero trust principles to automate persistent protection of sensitive information at rest, in transit, and in use throughout the information lifecycle.

The latest enhancements to SkyDRM build on its file-type agnostic capabilities, providing enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) protection with the ability to enforce rights natively on any applications, such as PLM, CAD, and major enterprise applications such as SAP, iManage, and Microsoft Office. SkyDRM can also work with any OIDC and SAML identity providers and federated identities; its attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy can be applied to grant different permissions to users across multiple domains. Additionally, files uploaded to applications or file repositories via web application, desktop, or mobile server are automatically protected. As part of this latest update, SkyDRM is now certified with over 30 CAD applications, mitigating security risks for digital twins and other sensitive data. The updates also further enhance user experience, providing improved configuration management and activity logging.

“The increasing complexity of cross-enterprise collaboration in today’s digital environment necessitates a user-friendly solution to secure sharing of data regardless of where it is stored, travels to, and with whom it is shared,” stated Nitin Aggarwal, Associate Partner at Infosys Consulting. “NextLabs’ SkyDRM allows enterprises to protect data persistently with a zero trust-based DRM technology to enable seamless collaboration across the extended enterprise without risk of data leakage.”

SkyDRM addresses the need to secure cross-enterprise collaboration by preventing unauthorized access and use to sensitive information and digital twins, safeguarding data persistently with digital rights management (DRM) wherever it lives or travels – across devices, data centers, apps, cloud services, and on-premises. SkyDRM enables users to access documents securely with native applications, SkyDRM Desktop rich clients, SkyDRM WebApp, and SkyDRM mobile apps. SkyDRM also supports offline access of the protected document inside and outside of company network.

Many enterprises struggle to control sensitive information shared across corporate networks due to lack of safeguards to protect data outside the enterprise network. SkyDRM helps prevent data breaches by providing the following:

• Secure Collaboration – Works seamlessly with applications to protect sensitive data during collaboration with DRM by enforcing fine-grained access and usage control policies.
• Cross Enterprise Enforcement – Federated identity support with multi-domain policy enforces secure data sharing across borders and multi-tier supply chains.
• Preventive Controls – Automate data protection and simplify access management to prevent unauthorized access and data leakage.
• Comprehensive PLM & CAD Integrations – Native integration with leading PLM and CAD applications, ensuring end-to-end protection of product data.
• Streamline Compliance – Automates the process of auditing authorization and data access to demonstrate compliance to auditors, regulators, and customers.

“In today’s highly competitive global economy, digital twin is an important enabler to accelerate innovation and deliver higher quality products faster, therefore it is critical to protect them when collaborating with external stakeholders” said Keng Lim, CEO and Founder of NextLabs. “NextLabs is committed to deliver the industry leading E-DRM solution with the best user experience and the most complete PLM & CAD integrations.”