(1) (
Information
Resource
Management) See
Information Systems and
information management.
(2) (
Information
Rights
Management) Digital rights management (DRM) that applies to documents rather than copyrighted songs and movies. IRM provides methods for securing documents and distributing permissions to users for editing or copying sensitive material. See
DRM.
(3) (
Inherited
Rights
Mask) In NetWare 3.x and 4.x, a filter that defined the access rights that were passed down from the parent directory.