Once digital certificates are in more widespread use, he said, they will enable documents to be digitally signed so that any tampering of the document, at least in the immediate future, is detectable.

Chris Joscelyne, founding member of the Australian IT Security Forum and managing director of Australian Projects said digital rights management usage creates a certainty of document authorship.

Joscelyne said data warehousing and storage is driving the uptake of DRM with evaluations currently under way in Australia.