Acrobat Tutorial

Creating and managing security policies

Security policies in Adobe® Acrobat® 8 work in a similar way to building and using styles for text, and you can create policies for passwords and certificates. If you work in an enterprise environment, you may have Adobe Policy Server, a separate Adobe Server product that manages security policies.

1. Click the Secure task button and choose Manage Security Policies or choose Advanced > Security > Manage Security Policies to open the Managing Security Policies dialog (Figure 1).

   

   Figure 1: Add, remove, edit, and otherwise manage your security policies in the dialog.

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2. Click New to open the New Security Policy wizard. The steps involved in creating each type of policy are listed at the left of the dialog. All types use the same initial panel for choosing a security type, all use a General settings panel, and all have a Summary panel at the end of the dialog. A password security policy has a panel to choose document restrictions, a public key encryption policy has a panel to select recipients and a Policy Server policy includes a panel to choose recipient permissions.
3. Follow through the wizard to complete the policy. Click Cancel at the bottom of the dialog at any time to close the dialog.

Where to go from here

For more information about working with security Acrobat 8, check out these other great tutorials:

• Certifying a document, by Donna Baker
• Creating a self-signed digital ID, by Donna Baker

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software:

Adobe Acrobat 8

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• Buy (Professional)

Prerequisite knowledge:

Basic knowledge of working with Acrobat

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