Document sharing puts confidential personal and business information and intellectual property at risk. Protecting PDFs with HoGo can dramatically reduce your risk. Learn how in this brief presentation.

1. How to Protect
Your PDF Files
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2. What is a PDF?
• PDF = Portable Document Format
– Developed by Adobe in the ’90s
– Designed to achieve WYSIWYG on all
computing platforms
– Ensured layout, typographic, graphical fidelity

3. Why Use PDF?
• PDF files are ideal for sharing finished
digital–rather than printed–works
– Visual consistency
– Protection from unwanted changes
• PDF vs. DOC
– Greater creative flexibility
– More security options

4. Options for PDF Protection
• Built-in security
– Disable edit/modification options
– “Signature” revision control
• Encryption
– Password protection
• Third-party
– Stronger Digital Rights Management (DRM)
tools for protection, distribution

5. PDF Security Weaknesses
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Edit and “save as”
Password sharing, management
Images can be screen-grabbed
Copies can be printed
Once decrypted, files can be shared

6. What Makes HoGo Different?
• HoGo enables specific permissions
– Sender controlled, not recipient controlled
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Revocable rights
Sharing, printing, emailing, etc.
Time limits and remote destruction
Blocked screen grabbing
– True DRM capability
– Viewing options
• Adobe Reader
• HoGo Viewer
• Browser

7. HoGo Applications
• Information Protection
– Corporate intellectual property
– Literary and creative works
– Personal documents
• Use Cases
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Legal documents
Manuscripts
Academic materials
Business data
• Sales lists, plans and strategies, financials, customer pricing,
announcements and memos

8. Why HoGo?
• All the advantages of a PDF document but
with true security and DRM capability
– Full file encryption
– Sender controlled permissions
– Time-set and remote destruction
– Convenient viewing options
– Cost-efficient document security solution
Share it with confidence. HoGo it!