BENEFITS FROM IMPLEMENTING SWF FLASH SECURITY

   ROI

• Achieve full DRM based control over the use of your flash courses for less than $4 a day (based on a 3 year time period).
   
• Manage your customer base by preventing copying, decompiling, modifying and selling on of your knowledge and content.
   
• Reach new markets.  You can sell courses that are accessible for a limited time period at a lower cost, rather than them being available forever, enabling you to reach new markets that are price sensitive, or gain additional leverage during economic instability.
   
• Gain additional revenues (all customers now have to buy whereas previously some may have obtained your content for free).
   

Web Design companies

• Protect your designs and IPR from being misappropriated for under $4 a day (based on 3 years use).
   
• Be able to distribute your professional designs and content knowing that they cannot be decompiled and re-used.
   
• Consolidate your revenue stream by being more certain of being able to collect on your invoices. 
   

Flash Game developers

• Allow others to use your games, but not their content, for less than $4 a day (based on a 3 year time period).
   
• Maintain your interest base whilst preventing copying, decompiling, modifying and selling on of your expertise and content.
   
• Reach additional markets.  Help convert your talent and ability into downstream business rather than just educating the competition.
  

    TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Protect your valuable flash (SWF) files from unauthorized use, misuse and piracy.   Achieve full control over how and where your licensed flash files are used.  Ensure that your flash files are not copied, shared or modified without your specific permission.   Revoke the use of files when you decide they should no longer be available. Copyright control is always maintained.

Unless positive control is taken over electronic or digitized information, organizations face serious risks to their financial performance and weakening or loss of intellectual property, with long term financial consequences.  

Knowledge based organizations and economies in particular are very vulnerable to IPR theft, because this is the output of their talent and capabilities. Intellectual property can be very difficult and expensive to create, but, without protection, can be copied, re-used and sold on in a matter of seconds.

    INTRODUCE NEW BUSINESS MODELS ON THE INTERNET

Up to now people publishing information on the Internet have for the main part been giving it away because they have not been able to maintain control of the subsequent use of that information.  

The business model that says you have to cede all ownership in anything published on or transferred by Internet is both politically and commercially flawed.   The control of Personal Data is regulated by law in many countries, and the fact of transferring it by Internet does not remove liability to prosecution for failing to protect it.  

The protection of secrets, confidential information, sensitive information and high value information are common commercial requirements that MUST be achieved: no amount of argument about the right to make copies has any place here.   Nor does the argument that just because people can make copies of pop singles, therefore nobody has the right to protect their IPR collateral.

When the Internet was first introduced the argument was used that information must be given away free in order to create the market for your talent and capabilities.   Now the Internet is maturing, and many more complex business models are emerging.

In the music industry, publishing IPR free music is now seen as a necessary PR exercise to attract customers to live performances which include unpublished work.

This model does not fit a training course provider who cannot afford to give away sample courses for free because they are using the Internet to deliver courses rather than have to give them in person (you might say this is the opposite model to the music one!).

But a training course provider might find it valuable to give prospects very limited access to course materials so they can assess if the course is appropriate for them, and only commit when they are happy.

And a web site designer wants to be able to show his potential customer what he is going to get, flash and all, showing off talents and capabilities, without having to worry that the customer can harvest the information and then use it without paying.

Typically, the web is used as a proving ground for demonstrating that you have the ability and competence to deliver, without actually giving away what you are selling.   LockLizard Flashguard enables you to demonstrate unarguable competence whilst still maintaining ownership and control.

    LICENSE EXPIRY LETS YOU GIVE CUSTOMERS EVALUATION / LIMITED TIME TRIALS OF YOUR PRODUCTS AND/OR ENSURES SUBSCRIBERS WILL CONTINUE TO PAY FOR YOUR PRODUCTS AT RENEWAL TIME

Your customers can 'try before they buy' without you having to give away unrestricted use of your flash files.  Just specify the number of days for evaluation.

In the same way, when a subscription license expires your subscriber will have to renew it before they can continue using your flash files.  You therefore retain full control over your flash files at every stage and ensure customers continue to pay license fees when they are due.

Or alternatively, you could sell a restricted time access license (a few days, a month, etc.) to your flash files for a cheaper price.  License expiry allows you to develop different commercial models to fit different circumstances.

    EASE OF DEPLOYMENT

Implementing Flashguard Flash Security can be done immediately.  You can start issuing licenses in a matter of minutes from purchasing.

Our fully hosted systems ensure there are no extra costs involved in time or money (server configuration, consultant fees, etc.).  And when you want to bring the system in-house you can switch over to your own server hosting and integrate it with your internal or e-commerce system for a totally automated solution.

Our ecommerce integration module ensures a totally automated license delivery system without the need for manual input.