US digital rights management darling Intertrust has quietly separated into two distinct units. On one half, we have the ExpressPlay DRM business, which is well known in the media and entertainment world with a special home in Asia Pacific, while the Intertrust Platform will form the other half, housing the group’s newer exploits around data services and data management, in verticals such as IoT and energy. It’s the same group, with the same people, still reporting to long-term CEO Talal Shamoon. However, it is virtually impossible not to interpret this structural shake-up as result of the sale of Intertrust’s whiteCryption subsidiary in July this year, to mobile security vendor Zimperium, and perhaps even a precursor to a similar series of…