Document DRM Security

DRM Copy Protection Software for PDF Documents, Files, Ebooks

Our PDF copy protection software enforces DRM controls, uses US Government strength encryption (AES), real-time licensing, and public key technology. There are no passwords, Plugins, JavaScript, or zero footprint solutions to compromize your security, or complex PKI structures to manage. Why Safeguard’s better than secure data rooms.

We protect PDF files from copying, leakage, piracy, and sharing, ensuring your IP is always protected regardless of its location.

Safeguard PDF Security

Safeguard PDF Security prevents unauthorized access to PDF files, enables secure document sharing and distribution of PDF documents, controls what users can do with them, and how long they can be used.

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Enterprise PDF DRM

Enterprise rights management for large publishers and corporates who need all the features of Safeguard plus the ablity to track document use, restrict location access, make batch changes, run reports, and much more.

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Secure PDF Viewers

Our secure Viewers are FREE and can be:

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Document Copy Protection Features

Stop copying, editing, saving

No complicated policy controls – disables functions used to modify or share content

Expiry & self-destruct

Automatically expire PDF access after a number of views, prints, days or on a fixed date

Revoke Documents & Users

Terminate access instantly even after documents have been distributed

Stop or control printing

Stop printing or limit prints, enforce print quality and stop printing to PDF & other file formats

Stop Screenshots

Stop printscreen and third party screen grabbers (even remote ones) from taking screenshots

Dynamic Watermarks

Watermarks identify the user and deter content redistribution of photos and printouts

Device Locking

Automatically stops sharing by locking documents to authorized user’s devices

Location Locking

Control BYOD & where documents are used by locking use to specific locations (e.g. office only)

Track Document Use

See who viewed and printed what documents, when, and from where

API Integration

Automate PDF protection & delivery – batch protect PDFs & integrate with shopping carts

Simple & Flexible Hosting

Host on premise or use our ready-to-go AWS hosted systems – one price for unlimited use

Total Security

No insecure plugins, passwords, JavaScript, or uploading unprotected files to the web

	Safeguard PDF Security	Enterprise PDF DRM	Secure PDF Viewers
Prevent unauthorized viewing
Prevent sharing
Prevent copying & modifying
Stop screen capture
Prevent printing or control no. of prints
Expiry (no. of views, days, fixed date)
Revocation of users & documents
Control online/offline use
Flexible online/offline use options
Dynamic watermarks
Log document views & prints
Restrict access to IP & country
License transfer across devices
Batch changes
Custom expiry & welcome messages
Backup & Restore
Generate Reports
Sub Administrators

Safeguard or Enterprise

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PDF Security add-ons

Ecommerce/API integration

Automates the management of users and document access. Simple integration with your web sales process (payment, CMS, file management system, etc.). Learn more.

Command Line Encryption

Automates PDF DRM encryption without manual input or user intervention via a GUI. Commands can be run from the DOS prompt or a batch file. Learn more.

Web Publisher

Make protected PDF documents available to users in a browser without installing a Viewer. Learn more.

USB Security

Make protected PDF documents available on a USB stick without users installing a Viewer or being online. Learn more.

Own Branding

Present your overall electronic image in the same way as your print image by branding our Secure PDF Viewer with your own logo. Learn more.

Custom Registration Email

Customize the License Registration email with your own logo, images, text, & user’s name for a more personal touch. Learn more.

Award winning PDF DRM

Our PDF DRM systems take you beyond domain level security such as that used by Microsoft RMS, enabling companies to securely exchange documents in different environments without demanding that you or your customers implement a specific infrastructure. Document DRM Security Awards.

Document Security Features In-Depth

Our document security and ebook DRM products stop your PDF files from being shared with unauthorized users, and control how they are used and how long they are used by authorized users. They protect your documents no matter where they reside ensuring you have full control over their use both inside and outside your organization.

Secure and transparent key management means there are no keys to enter, manage, or distribute. Protect PDF files without passwords or certificates, prevent data leakage, stop sharing and piracy.

Stop Document Sharing

Our document security software uses encryption, DRM and licensing controls to stop unauthorized sharing of your documents.

We do not use passwords to protect documents since they can be easily shared with others or simply removed using freely available password removal software. Documents are protected using unique encryption keys that are securely and transparently relayed to authorized devices from a cloud server and stored encrypted in a keystore on the local device. The keystore is locked to individual devices and will not function if it is copied and moved elsewhere. So if users try to share your protected documents with others the recipients won’t be able to open them as they do not have access to the decryption keys.

Protected documents can only be opened using our secure Viewer software which decrypts content in memory (using decryption keys from the keystore) and applies the appropriate DRM controls. Our secure Viewer software can either be installed on a device (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android), run from a USB stick (completely offline zero installation solution), or accessed via a web browser (zero installation).

Stop Copying, Editing, Saving

Our document security software stops users from saving documents in unprotected formats – there is no ‘Save As’ option or ability to convert to other file formats using third party software – so only copies of protected files can be made. A copy of a protected file is of no use to another user without the decryption key to open it. And decryption keys are stored encrypted in a keystore which is locked to the device it was registered on – so only authorized users can open protected documents.

There is no option that can be enabled in our secure document Viewers for users to edit or copy/paste content – we disable copy & paste functionality and there is no editing facility available so text cannot be highlighted for selection and copied and pasted into other applications.

Revoke Documents & Users

As well as expiring access to PDF files automatically after a certain amount of time, or limiting the number of times a PDF can be opened, Safeguard enables you to manually revoke access to PDF files.

Being able to revoke documents is an important part of any document security solution. There may be times when the wrong document was published, a user has left your company, a payment has been revoked, or you think a specific document has been compromised.

Our document security software enables you to revoke documents and/or users instantly. Documents can be revoked no matter where they reside.

Lock documents to devices, domains, IPs

Our document security software locks documents to authorized machines or devices so they cannot be used on other unauthorized devices.

You can also lock documents to specific countries, a domain or an IP address range in order to restrict use to a specific location (e.g. an office in the US) so that protected documents (stored for example on a laptop) will not open outside this location.

Secure Document Hosting & Distribution

Locklizard provides secure document hosting with Web Publisher (protected PDF files are stored on a cloud server either hosted by Locklizard or yourselves) or you can distribute protected documents as you would any other file.

Many providers offering secure document hosting protect your documents online so unprotected files are available on a server for a length of time before they are protected. Our secure cloud storage system (Web Publisher) protects documents locally (encryption and DRM controls applied) and then uploads them securely to a cloud server so they can never be compromised by server vulnerabilities.

If you prefer to host your protected documents then you distribute them like any other file (email, USB, web site download, etc.). Locklizard protected documents can only be opened by authorized users using our secure document Viewers. It does not matter who gets hold of your secure documents – unauthorized users won’t be able to open them – so you can make them freely available via a web site for download without worrying about password access controls.

For completely offline secure document distribution you can use Safeguard PDF Portable to distribute our secure Viewer and documents on USB sticks. Users can start using protected documents as soon as they receive their USB sticks without having to install any software. Additional protected documents can be added at a later date by authorized users when they become available without the USB stick having to be returned to you.

The administration system (where you create users and authorize document usage) can be hosted by Locklizard or on your own servers. This is separate from generating your secure documents (locally on your computer) so you have greater control over secure distribution of your documents and who has access to them.

We don’t lock you into monthly pricing like some document security providers – you can purchase annual and perpetual licenses, and the number of users and documents you can protect is unlimited.

Document Expiry

You can automatically expire documents so they can no longer be used after a certain amount of time:

expire documents on a fixed date
expire documents after a number of days
expire documents after a number of opens or views
expire documents after a number of prints

These options can also be used together – e.g. you can enter say a number of days/views/prints and a fixed date and whatever occurs first causes the document to expire.

Expiry dates can be changed on the administration system at any time and publishers can modify the number of views/prints available for each user.

Stop Document Printing

Our document security software disables printing by default.

You can however enable unlimited printing, limit the number of times a PDF can be printed, or allow only degraded printing (black & white or grayscale).

You can make a PDF print disabled for all users when protecting it, and enable printing for individual users at a later date. Document watermarking is recommended if you allow printing to discourage photocopies of printed materials being made.

Safeguard disables print to PDF and other file printers so if you allow printing, users cannot print to PDF files, XPS, or any other unprotected file format.

Stop Screenshots

Our secure document viewers stop screenshots being taken by Windows print screen and common third party screen capture applications.

No DRM product however can stop all screenshots (and of course users can just take photographs of the screen) so it is recommended that document publishers apply dynamic watermarks as a copying deterrent. If a user’s name and email are displayed on a screen shot (by adding a dynamic watermark) they will probably be less likely to share it with others – this is especially true when uploading it to the Internet where they can be easily identified.

Track & Log PDF use

With our Enterprise Rights Management solution you can log document use and see when users have viewed and/or printed your documents. This is useful if you want to track PDF files to check whether a particular user has viewed a document especially if they claim to have not received it.

You can see which are your top 5 most accessed, viewed and printed documents, who accessed them and when, and export this information to a CSV file.

Non-removable & Dynamic Watermarks

No DRM system is fool-proof. Even if screenshots are prevented, users can take photographs of the screen using a camera. Similarly, if printing is allowed, users can print and scan back in printed documents.

To discourage users making copies of protected documents, you can apply dynamic watermarks to viewed and/or printed documents. By using dynamic variables, you only have to protect a document once for all users (rather than watermarking and protecting each document individually for each user) as user data (name, company, email, date/time, etc.) is inserted at view/print time.

Unlike Adobe watermarks, our PDF watemarks are permanent and cannot be easily removed using PDF editing software.

Remote File Deletion

Some document security, PDF DRM, and Enterprise Rights Management products claim to be able to remotely delete files. However this is nothing more than a mere marketing ploy.

If a user has backed up the files before they were deleted then only the original file is deleted and not the backup. So the ‘deleted’ files will still exist. The important point is making sure a document is no longer usable and this can be achieved using expiry and revocation. If a secure document expires or is revoked it can no longer be used so any copy of the original is worthless to the user.

So while we do not provide remote file deletion in our document security products we do ensure access will cease when you decide.

Customer Testimonials

We needed to deliver e-book versions of our handbooks while not compromising on security and digital rights. Safeguard PDF security is easy to use and intuitive.

The implementation was painless and we now have a greener, more secure way of distributing training manuals.
Locklizard’s PDF protection is exactly as described – the features are highly effective and I would give it 5 stars.

I would recommend Locklizard to others - their security is simple to use and fit for purpose. It meets common needs of businesses who have information they want to protect.
We would be happy to recommend Locklizard to any company needing a flexible way to secure PDF files.

Safeguard PDF Security has provided us with a very workable solution for sharing of information in a secure fashion. The support has been excellent and very accommodating.
We can cut accounts for a user five minutes before his class starts and he is ready to go. Happy smiling customer, while we still have security and personalized watermarking.

I have immense respect for the product and Locklizard provide great customer satisfaction and service.
We would recommend Safeguard to other companies for its security, cost and ease of use. It does what we expected it to do and more.

Ease of use is a bonus and the implementation was very easy. The product manual is excellent and Locklizard staff are very accommodating.
We sell a highly valued educational product in an open and competitive market so it was important to ensure we had effective security to protect our digital rights.

We highly recommend Locklizard - a professional company with a competitive and professional PDF Security product.
We would absolutely recommend both Locklizard as a company, and Safeguard PDF Security. It has transformed our study materials to the next level.

Not only did this increase sales, but we also believe that it has increased our customers’ ability to learn, which is even more important!
We would recommend Locklizard Safeguard to other companies that need to protect PDF reports. Customers have found the process of accessing the protected documents to be seamless.

Implementation was easy and technical support has been very responsive to requests for help.
Our company would without reservation recommend Locklizard. Their document DRM software opens up delivery of our new products in a timely fashion while knowing that the content will remain secure.

The return on investment to our company has been immediately evident.
We use Safeguard to make sure that documents cannot be opened outside our local network or from a unauthorized computer in order to copy or print the documents.

It is the most feature rich, affordable, & simple to use PDF security product on the market.
Safeguard PDF Security is simple to administer and meets our needs, consistently delivering secured manuals to our customers with ease.

Return on investment has been elimination of many man hours, printing resources and postage – it is estimated that costs decreased by 50% or more.
We would really recommend Safeguard PDF Security to every publishing company for managing ePubs or e-books securely. It is easy to secure PDF files and simple to distribute them to our authorized customers only.

Locklizard also provides a good customer support experience.
The ROI for us is incalculable. We have the security of knowing that our proprietary documents are secure. This is the entire value of our company.

I would most certainly recommend your PDF security product and already have. The ease of implementation was surprising.
We can now sell our manuals without the need to print them first, saving time, money and helping safeguard the environment.

We would recommend Safeguard PDF DRM – it is the perfect solution to sell and send e-documents securely whilst making sure someone cannot copy them.
We would recommend Locklizard to other companies without hesitation.

Their PDF DRM products provide a manageable, cost effective way to protect intellectual investment and they are always looking for ways to improve them. Moreover, their staff provide an excellent level of support.