Choosing A Security Method - Adobe 62000236 Using Manual

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Security

Choosing a security method

Choosing which type of security to use
By adding security to documents, you can limit viewing, editing, printing, and other options to only the specified users.
You can choose if you want the users to have the required password, a digital ID, or access to Adobe LiveCycle® Rights
Management ES.
Acrobat provides different security methods with which to specify document authenticity, encryption, and permission
settings. You can encrypt all or part of a document and limit user actions. For example, you can restrict users to only
typing in fields in a form or prevent them from printing a PDF.
Use passwords to restrict opening, editing, and printing PDFs. Password security provides a simple
Password security
way to share documents among users where sharing passwords is possible or when high levels of backward
compatibility is required. Password security policies do not require specifying any document recipients.
You set password protection either for all contents or only on file attachments. PDF envelopes enable you to attach
encrypted files to an unencrypted PDF envelope.
Certificate security provides a high level of security and eliminates the need for password sharing.
Certificate security
It also allows assigning different permissions to different users whose identities can be verified and managed.
Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES security
documents without the need for digital signatures and certificates. The policy contains the list of recipients and their
individual set of permissions.
Security policies
If you often apply the same security settings to PDFs, consider creating a security policy to simplify your workflow.
Different policies are useful for accommodating different requirements.
You can secure multiple documents by embedding them in a PDF envelope. Envelopes can be
Envelope policy
encrypted to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the contents and certified to provide proof of origin.
Authorized recipients can open the envelope and extract the files to view them.
LiveCycle Rights Management ES policy
users must have access to the server to use them. Creating these policies requires specifying the document recipients
from a list on Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES.
Password and certificate policies
setting up the password or certificate for each instance.
If you apply security settings to a large collection of PDFs, you can automate the steps by using the Batch Processing
command.
Use Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES to apply a policy to
Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES policies are stored on a server, and
Save your password or certificate settings and reuse them to encrypt PDFs without
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