PDF DRM Systems

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is quite vital when it comes to protecting intellectual property. Not many people are confident storing information on the internet as PDF files for the fear of someone stealing them. LockLizard offers PDF security software to aid you in securing your information. This is highly secure PDF DRM software prevents hackers stealing your documents.

The PDF DRM solution you chose has to be able to prevent unauthorised viewing, copying, editing or printing of the PDF document. Not only this, the PDF DRM system should ensure that printouts are made to real printers and not to temporary file storage locations.

Before purchasing the system, establish if your PDF DRM supplier can control screenshots; if not, you are not getting what you bargained for. You should also determine if the PDF DRM controller can regulate licence replication across networks. This may lead to your PDF document being accessed by the whole network.

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Encrypting your PDF documents effectively

By encrypting your PDF documents you are making sure that only people with the decryption key (read authorized parties) can access their contents. There are several ways of encrypting PDF documents, with the most basic method being the use of password systems but they have been made obsolete courtesy of password-cracking tools.

The best way to do this therefore is to use non password-based encryption software such as the one developed by LockLizard. Locklizard use an encryption algorithm that is approved and used by the US government, AES, and which is available in key lengths of 128 and 256 bits. The revolutionary PDF security system from LockLizard.com i.e. Safeguard PDF Security uses AES 256 bit for encrypting PDF documents and files and uses public key technology rather than passwords. This software also goes a step further to incorporate digital rights management rights controls, which are used to regulate what authorized users can do with your documents with respect to operations such as copying, saving, sharing, printing, and so forth.

Effective Adobe PDF Information Security

After you have created your PDF document it is now time to impose Digital Rights Management controls over it to protect it from unauthorized editing, copying, printing and sharing. You can achieve secure adobe PDF documents and files by using LockLizard’s Safeguard PDF information security software. You can be sure of this PDF information security platform because documents protected by it can only be accessed through LockLizard’s Safeguard Secure PDF viewer.

There are several advantages of using this viewer as opposed to other PDF viewers. These include the fact that it does not make use of plug-ins as these have been known to compromise a system’s security, it prevents running of JavaScript which has repeatedly been used to launch malicious attacks on computers, and that it does not need to be updated every time Adobe creates an update. With this software you can also secure adobe PDF documents against third-party screen grabbers.

Adding a user to the administration system

Copy protection

Copy protection

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Regulating Information Distribution with Information Rights Management Systems

The computer has made the distribution of information easier than ever before. It has also made the infringement of copyrights a breeze and therefore there is the need for an information rights management (IRM) system to regulate how information is securely distributed and used to ensure the copyright owners benefit the most from income for their intellectual property. Information rights management is usually the term applied to the control of documents whereas digital rights management (DRM) is usually the term applied to the control of many types of digitized content such as music, movies, computer software, etc.

Information rights management enables copyright owners to regulate the use of their works in different ways. In the case of a document, you can determine who reads it and for how long it can be read. For subscription sales of your articles, you can determine the start and end calendar dates or a number of days since the document was first viewed. In cases of printing, you can determine if this can be done and if so, how many copies can be made. Photocopying of printed works can be discouraged by the use of dynamic watermarks displaying user details such as their name and email address. The use of document sharing can be controlled by confining documents to one computer and determining the number of users allowed to view the content.

Most people however reach out for information right management systems to help curb copying of their documents. With IRM you can regulate whether one can make copies for other parties to use, if certain parts of your work can be copied, and prevent the use of screen dumps. Using passwords as a protection mechanism has been deemed as useless since they can be easily shared or broken with password cracking software; modern IRM systems use public key technology of varying degrees to adequately safeguard copyrights.

Often with information right management systems, the decryption keys are retained on a licensing server. To open a protected document, you have to connect to a particular server which will determine if you are an authorized user based. Upon approval the decryption key will be transferred to your local computer and the document will be decrypted. Many IRM systems hold decryption keys within a secure keystore that is locked to an individual computer using encryption technology. Many document owners selling content use information rights management systems alongside payment systems to ensure that they receive their royalties automatically.

Information rights management with the help of cryptography has largely been successful so far. Cryptography is used to help enforce the document controls. With continuous innovation and improvement, the sky is the limit in upholding media copyrights.