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BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING WEB, ELEARNING, IMAGES, FLASH SECURITY
Lizard Protector Web Content Security offers the same business benefits as Lizard Safeguard PDF Security with these additions:
- You can share a wide range of document types, not just PDF, with internal staff, customers, business partners, and others, without them being able to misuse your IPR.
- eLearning and distance education training can be provided without the normal risks of piracy or reproduction.
- Private web sites (either online or on CD-ROM) can be created with much stricter control over who has access to them than conventional approaches. DRM controls may be applied in situations where that has not been previously possible.
- Whole groups of linked items may be protected in one pass rather than having to manage them one at a time, giving savings in time and effort.
- Individual items may be replaced or added to a collected work without having to reprocess everything.
- Images and flash files can be protected as single objects or as part of a web page.
 COMPANY INTRANETS, EXTRANETS AND WEB PORTAL SECURITY, SECURE WEB PAGES
Existing password based systems are known to be flawed, easily broken, cumbersome to manage, expensive to support, and frequently disclosed to strangers.
"80% of businesses rely solely on passwords rather than stronger forms of identity. In large firms 70% of employees have to remember between 2 and 6 passwords. It is worrying that firms are using just passwords" - Andrew Beard, PWC (quoting the DTI 2006 Information Security Breaches survey).
If your information is of ANY value to your company, it is plainly obvious that you should not be using password based systems. What you need is a seamless solution that exceeds password protection but without any of the negatives. And with strong Digital Rights Management controls, information can no longer be copied and pasted, or saved, or printed (if you so choose), and then given to unauthorized individuals.
Company Intranets
Employees may need to have access to a wide variety of web-based information, but that access and use have to be carefully controlled to prevent copying or theft of private information. Conventional internal web sites are readily controlled and updated using Protector.
Company Extranets
There is a common requirement for many organizations who need to publish information to their contractors, service agents, distributors, resellers and so on. This may range from product service information through internal price lists, confidential contact names and addresses, contract agreements. Some organizations using password access controlled web sites to disclose confidential information (mergers and acquisitions data, stock trading information etc.) would also find this approach much more effective at preventing improper release or retention of documents.
Web Portals
Web portals typically offer access to a specific area of interest for web users. These are ‘membership areas’ where services are made available to a select group, either through controlled registration or the purchase of membership services. Membership organizations frequently publish information on the Internet that is exclusively for their paid-up members. They see a large loss of income if that information becomes readily accessible or publicly available without payment. Whether this is a computer games area, a professional society or an adult site they need to protect the information that they publish to their own community.
Secure Web pages
Every business with a web site has the need to share private information with business partners and other interested parties. Every enterprise needs to be able to share secrets with others. Up to now the security ‘experts’ have used cryptography to protect secrets. But cryptography alone does not control what the recipient is able to do with the information they have received. In fact, the recipient can do anything they please with the information they get. Most often you just want someone to be able to see the information and make some comment on it, but want to be sure they can’t send it on to the world and his wife (as the saying goes). But the requirement is ad-hoc, not formalised. Secret or confidential information has to be shared with a wide variety of people who cannot be predicted, and who may occur singly, or in groups. They don’t fit the nice, cosy IT department structure of the predicted and controlled. And so you need an approach that can be both predictable (to suit the IT department) and ad-hoc (to suit business reality).
 ELEARNING SECURITY
Lizard Protector Web Content Security uses a combination of the strongest available encryption and digital rights management controls (DRM) to protect course content from being viewed by unauthorized users, or copied, shared or printed by authorized ones.
“Corporate e-learning is one of the fastest-growing sectors within the education market," says KPMG Consulting. "Huge benefits will accrue when content flows seamlessly - often over mobile networks - throughout industry value chains." IDC, the market research company, forecast that the global e-learning market will be worth some $23bn in 2004. Gartner, the IT analysis group, says: "The e-learning market is poised for explosive growth." (2002)
But that predicted market has yet to happen. Why? Because elearning companies rely on the revenue they receive from their courses, but until now there has been nothing to prevent their customers from freely giving course content to others, just the same as in software piracy. And that is just not a feasible economic model. Elearning is more exposed to piracy issues than any other supplier. Far from quickly developing, the elearning market has been in stasis until now.
LockLizard Protector Web Content Security is the first DRM enforcing product specifically focused at protecting elearning companies revenue streams means there is a significant boost to the ability of this industry to establish itself as firmly as the pundits had predicted.
Elearning publishers decide who views their content, where, and when, and for how long. If content can be printed (and if so, for how many copies) and when it expires (if ever), is also completely controlled by the publisher. Protector’s expiry controls make it simple for elearning publishers to offer sample courses that are limited to a number of days, and then extend if the product is purchased.
  IMAGE AND FLASH SECURITY
Lizard Protector Web Content Security is unique in providing DRM protection to both images and flash on the web. For a long time now DRM technology has been restricted to the film and music industry, and, to some extent to the PDF world. Artists, amateur film producers, training course providers, and most other providers of services over the web have not previously had tools available to protect their own interests.
Whether you are an advertising agency selling a new idea, or a wedding photographer sending samples out after the event, you need to be sure the customer will come back and pay you for the work. The same goes for membership organizations who need to be sure that only paid-up members actually have use of the web based images provided.
For advertising agencies providing briefings in image and flash format to distributors and resellers, the ability to post private information over the web ahead of formal announcements is a critical feature in today’s business development process, but only if it’s secure and the amount of leakage is marginal. Internet regulation means that some types of sites must carefully control access to their images, and must be sure that only registered members are able to access them.
Lizard Protector Web Content Security achieves the objectives of these groups and many more whilst providing the user with a seamless interface. There are no ID/password details to have to remember or commit to some wallet/passport or other system. Once the Protector viewer is installed, access to protected web pages or files on CD/DVD or on the desktop is seamless. Authorizations are retrieved dynamically from web servers (where that is relevant) and imposed automatically. Administration is made simple and enforcement effective.
Lizard Protector Web Content Security ensures your elearning courses, images, and flash content is protected with strong encryption and DRM controls. Protect your elearning, images, web and flash files with strong security. | |
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