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LiveCycle Rights Management ES features and benefits

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Feature Benefit
Persistent information-centric security
  • Protect access to documents throughout the information lifecycle, whether it is at rest, in motion, or in use.
  • Base the protection of information on its value and sensitivity level.
  • Proactively protect confidential or regulatory information from being leaked outside the organization.
Policy-based enforcement
  • Allow flexible creation of information policies from the user desktop or server.
  • Offer granular administration of policy creation and management.
  • Help ensure that business drivers and priorities dictate security levels.
  • Implement information governance policies that typically reside in books that sit on shelves.
  • Share policies among teams or restrict them from general use.
Dynamic policy control
  • Give document owners the ability to change access rights after documents have been distributed both internally and externally.
  • Provide fine-grained policy control through the authorization software development kit (SDK).
  • Streamline business processes that would typically require paper-based or in-person collaboration to ensure more secure results.
  • Provide real-time continuous control of information assets throughout the document's lifecycle.
  • Leverage access rights defined in existing repositories, restrict access to a particular IP address, or enforce a one-time printing rule.
Document access auditing
  • Enable all activity (open, modify, print, close) on protected documents to be logged by the server and reviewed by the author.
  • Improve compliance posture via audits of activity logs.
Offline access enablement
  • Provide the ability to grant recipients the right to access documents offline for a specified time while maintaining audit capabilities.
  • Provide business continuity in a protected setting for users that require offline access to sensitive information.
Version control and access revocation
  • Enable automatic revocation of access to outdated files; links to current versions are available as they are published.
  • Allow immediate revocation of access to distributed documents for individuals or groups in the event of employee termination or security breach.
  • Help ensure that only the latest versions of key engineering drawings, manuals, RFPs, or price lists are used or in circulation.
  • Revoke access for former employees, former business partners, or contractors to protect critical information.
Broad client integration
  • Assign policies to documents created in native application file formats such as PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; PTC Pro/ENGINEER; XVL Studio; and CATIA V5.
  • Apply persistent and dynamic enforcement policies consistently for the most utilized file types inside the enterprise.
Broad application integration
  • Integrate almost seamlessly with Adobe® LiveCycle® Content Services ES software.
  • Integrate with leading ECM and PDM systems through the SDK and APIs.
  • Enable more secure automated document workflows across the enterprise thanks to compatibility with other LiveCycle ES solution components.
  • Work in conjunction with ECM and PDM solutions to provide dynamic document protection on checkout.
Security solution integration
  • Integrate flexibly with multiple Active Directory and LDAP environments.
  • Employ username/password, Kerberos, smart card, and other verification models.
  • Take advantage of support for standards and certification.
  • Leverage existing investments in IT infrastructure, including authentication and identity management systems.
  • Restrict confidential information internally to only certain individuals or to a certain subset of job roles/titles/functions.
  • Provide transparent authentication with Microsoft® Windows® Single Sign-On (SSO).
  • Help meet new U.S. federal government encryption and access requirements.

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