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WEB CONTENT PROTECTION FEATURES TO PROTECT WEB CONTENT
COMPLETE CONTROL OVER WEB CONTENT USAGE Prevent, allow or control the following functions:
- Viewing, copying, modifying and saving content;
- Printing content (including the number of times your content can be printed);
- How many times your content can be viewed;
- How long your content can be viewed (days, months, years, forever);
- How long your customers can view content offline:always; n number of days; or they must connect every time to the administration server before they can view your protected web content;
- Use of Windows print screen and screen grabber applications - stop users taking screen shots of your protected web content;
- Printing to file, email, PDF format (Acrobat distiller, etc.), common image printers, etc. are automatically prevented;
- Sharing protected web content is prevented since your customers must have first registered with you and have the correct license and decryption keys in order to view protected web content. Decryption keys are stored encrypted and locked to individual computers, thus ensuring they cannot be shared;
- Expire and revoke distributed content at any time, automatically revoke access once view limits have been reached, manage offline access, and enforce content management system security policies no matter where your content resides;
- Change the number of print and view allowances even after distribution;
- Enforce your own house style and appearance by ensuring that content may only be seen in the format you have decided.
CUSTOMER AND WEB CONTENT EXPIRY, INCLUDING INSTANT REVOCATION FOR PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED WEB CONTENT AND PERSISTENT VERSION CONTROL
Customer expiry
Lizard Protector Web Content Security gives you total control over when your customers and access to your web content expires. Your customers, for example, may subscribe to one of your publications for a year, and all web content in that publication is accessible to them for a year. After a year, your customers will still be able to view their existing subscription web content, but not any new content that is published after their subscription period has ended, unless of course they pay for another years subscription.
Web content expiry
In addition you can control web content expiry. Regardless of your customer's subscription to your publications you may have certain web content that is time sensitive and must not be usable after a certain date. It also means you can sell web content that is accessible for a limited time period at a lower cost, rather than being available forever, enabling you to reach new markets that are price sensitive. You can be sure that those customers can only view web content for a day or a week, or whatever you choose. This feature also ensures that only the authorized or current versions of web content is used after publication because obsolete versions can no longer be accessed.
Instant revocation
You can also force your customers to connect to the administration server (happens transparently) before they can view your protected web content. This can be every time they want to view your web content or after a certain number of days. If you choose a number of days then after the length of time you set has passed your customers must go back online to gain further access. Using this option you can instantly revoke customer access to previously distributed web content as the access approval required to view your protected web content is instantly expired.
COMPLETE OFF-LINE PROTECTION Your controls are locked into each file so there is no need for your customers to connect to the Internet in order to view your protected web content (assuming of course that they have the correct decryption key stored on their computer).
Whether you want your customers to connect to the Internet or not to use your protected web content is a decision you make when protecting it.
CONTENT ACCOUNTABILITY / AUDITING The administration system records the date, time and IP address of users when they first connect to the server to obtain their decryption keys. It also records whether a user has tried to register with you more than once (i.e. on another computer), when this occurred, and the IP address they were using.
WEB CONTENT SECURITY THAT IS SIMPLE TO USE Lizard Protector Web Content Security provides complete web content security for even the most novice of users.
Just select your files using the Administrator GUI, select the secure access rights, and press the protect button to secure your web content (encrypts and applies digital rights management controls). You control who views your protected web content, how long they can view it for, whether it can be printed (and how many times), whether it can be copied, saved, etc. Web content can be published on its own as a single product (e.g. a single training course) or assigned to publications (e.g. multiple training courses) when you are providing subscription services or need to provide customers with collections of files.
UNIQUE CONCEPT OF PUBLICATIONS MAKES WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT SIMPLER The concept of the publication is a way of associating files that are logically related. Different enterprises may see this in different ways :
- a publisher could see it as the issues in a subscription;
- a training course provider could see it as the content of a course;
- a lawyer could see it as the items making up a bundle;
- a businessman could see it as the collection of documents making a bid
So being able to bring together collections of items of web content to create a publication, makes the administration of connected information easier for the publisher, and simplifies how it is used by the user.
If you choose to publish your web content as separate items (a single product), then each one will have it’s own encryption key. However, where customers are purchasing subscriptions to publications they expect to register their subscription once and then be able to read each issue as it arrives. Also, you as the publisher may find it easier to associate products, files or training courses with publications.
To meet this operational flexibility, if web content is protected as something in a publication, the encryption key of the publication is used to protect it rather than generating a new random key. This means that the user is able to immediately use a new issue regardless of how you ship it to them (eMail, flash card, CD-ROM for instance). Of course if you send them web content that is not part of a publication that they have been granted access to then they will have to connect to the administration server to retrieve the new key. And if you set the rules so that they must connect before using your web content then that will be enforced.
CUSTOMIZABLE MESSAGE TEXT AND SPLASH SCREEN When you set up user accounts on the administration server, users are automatically sent an email to the address you entered with a download link to the viewer software and their license file. This email is automatically customized with your name and email address in it so users know who to contact if they have any problems accessing your protected web content.
You can also specify the text that will be displayed if a user does not have the correct decryption key present to view your protected web content - e.g. where they can purchase a license from or who to contact.
Each time a protected product is loaded, a splash screen is displayed. You can insert your own image here (say your company logo and maybe a brief message) to customize Lizard Protector Web Content Security to represent your company image.
TRANSPARENT REAL-TIME WEB BASED CUSTOMER AUTHORIZATION When a customer views your protected web content for the first time, the viewer software will check if it has the correct key to view it. If it does not, the viewer will check with the administration server to see if the customer has been granted access to the content. If access is allowed then the decryption key will be transparently relayed to the client. If not, your custom message will be displayed telling the customer how to contact you and purchase your content.
NO LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF FILES YOU CAN PROTECT OR THE NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS THAT SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR PUBLICATIONS Unlike other products, you are free to protect as many files as you want and manage as many users as you want. There is no limit to the number of files you can protect or the number of users you have viewing those protected files.
WEB BASED ADMINISTRATION AND E-COMMERCE INTEGRATION FOR A 24X7 SERVICE Once you have secured your web content it is a simple matter of setting up users on the administration system (user name, company, email address) and allowing them to use one or more of your publications or products. Each product that belongs to a particular publication will then be accessible to all your customers that have subscribed to that publication.
The administration system lets you import existing customer data (perhaps from your accounting system) or you can integrate Lizard Protector Web Content Security with your existing e-commerce system to help provide a totally automated secure content distribution service. Once your customers pay or are authorized to use a product or publication, their details are automatically set up on the administration server and assigned the appropriate publication / product access rights. License file information is sent out automatically by email so your customers can view your protected web content straight away.
Documentation for this add-on feature can be downloaded here.
Example PHP scripts for shopping cart integration can be downloaded here.
Data can be exported from the administration system for use in an accounts package or CRM system.
CHOICE OF HOSTING ARRANGEMENTS You can either use our managed service (hosted on our own servers so no set up configuration required), or you can host the administration system on your own server (we can even set up the system for you or you can choose to do this yourself).
Hosting on our servers requires a $250 yearly maintenance fee but ensures you are up and running from day one as no server configuration is required at your end - saving you time, hassle and money.
FREE SECURE WEB VIEWER SOFTWARE FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS Customers can download the secure web viewer software totally free of charge, either from our web site or from yours or you can distribute it freely via email.
Our free stand-alone secure web viewer has a small footprint, is fast to load, and ensures all the DRM controls are applied without exposing you, as the publisher, to known cracks and flaws in the browser. It is not invasive and does not use root kit technology.
GOVERNMENT STRENGTH PROTECTION OF YOUR WEB CONTENT To ensure complete protection of your web content, they are encrypted using industry-standard encryption - the US Government approved algorithm, AES, at its strongest setting, 256 bits.
Encryption allows us to enforce the digital rights management controls applied to your web content.
NO PASSWORDS TO SEND, ENTER, MANAGE, FORGET OR PASS ON TO OTHERS In addition, strong public key technology is used rather than weak password mechanisms that are easily crackable. Not using password protection ensures bullet-proof protection of your web content - since there is nothing to enter the system is not vulnerable to password attacks.
You don't have to distribute passwords to users and they don't need to type in access codes to get going. Decryption keys are transparently relayed to the client computer and stored in encrypted format. There are no passwords to enter, manage, compromise, forget or pass on to others.
Whilst we use public key technology, no key management is required by you as the publisher or by your users or customers, as it is all handled transparently by the licensing system. There are no certificates to revoke when you want to terminate a users access or any other PKI complexity.
Locklizard provides a secure exchange mechanism in order to move the required key down to the user’s desktop at the same time as validating the customer’s authorization to receive the key. Keys are seamlessly delivered to your customer's computers.
Whilst user keys are stored on the user's computer, they are also locked to that computer and cannot be moved. So the user must be at that computer in order to be able to use the licensed documents. Any attempt to move the keys system to another computer will invalidate it.
NO WEB SECURITY RISKS Lizard Protector Web Content Security uses it's own decryption application (a secure web viewer) rather than relying on a plug-in to present your information. This ensures the security of your information is always under the tightest of controls, and is not vulnerable, or exposed to any errors in third party applications. Your security is not compromised by plug-in failures or conflicts.
Information is decrypted on-the-fly and is not saved to disk in temporary format or to the Windows swap file. We do not create extra files on disk that can be copied to another computer along with the protected files so they can be easily shared and viewed.
You protect your web content on your own computer. The source files (unprotected files) are never exposed to a web server where they could be easily compromized.
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