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Sidmouth, Devon -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/11/2008 -- "In recent years, education and training have increasingly been delivered by electronic means," said Dr Trevor Mathews, Chairman of LockLizard. "What started 20 years ago with television courses and VCR services has become much more sophisticated and much more packaged today. Distance learning courses are now so advanced that in some cases a live instructor is no longer needed, and examinations to follow training can also be taken electronically."

NetMasterClass, a leading Cisco Certified Learning Partner, has protected its Cisco training courses using the LockLizard DRM service in order to make them readily accessible and deliverable over the Internet, whilst remaining secure against intellectual property theft. "We had previously had the unfortunate experience of seeing our training materials posted on public web sites, effectively giving away the work and expertise that we had used to create new and novel training techniques, and you cannot operate a training business in that kind of environment," commented NetMasterClass.

"Now we are able to deliver on-demand, 24x7 training to customers globally when and where they want it. And without having the underlying worries about what will happen to our proprietary materials."

Whilst DRM has been seen as a negative addition in the music and video industries, DRM in the online training industry has been welcomed with open arms by many users. The reasoning behind this is that when you are paying upwards of $1000 for a course, you do not want to see others bidding $5 for it on auction sites.

Using Lizard Safeguard or Lizard Protector, publishers of electronic training materials can protect their intellectual property published in the PDF or HTML formats. Courses can be made available for a specific length of time or number of uses, and the number of prints can be limited or prevented altogether. Publishers can now price their courses according to the functionality enabled or limitations imposed, offering more attractive options to customers. Better still, updates can be delivered instantly over the web without fear of them getting into the wrong hands.

"Looking forwards," said Dr Mathews, "We can see that there will be a rapid and significant move towards complete electronic delivery of training, course materials, lectures and notes, without a physical instructor ever needing to be present. The pressures that the current recession is bringing on the need to increase manpower effectiveness and reduce overall costs are going to accelerate the use of computer based training and education systems, always provided that the content can be adequately secured so that only those who have actually paid for the courses are those who benefit from them.

All of our publishers have noticed a significant increase in their bottom line and many have been amazed at the new revenue streams that have opened up, whilst at the same time benefitting from reduced costs in terms of overheads and distribution. A win-win situation if ever I saw one."

About LockLizard
LockLizard is a DRM vendor that produces document security, pdf security, elearning security, ebook security, copy protection, and web content encryption products that use DRM technology to protect information from intellectual property theft. Our DRM software prevents copying, printing, screen grabbing, and sharing of information without the use of insecure passwords. http://www.locklizard.com

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LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security selected to protect market intelligence information

Sidmouth, Devon -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/12/2008 -- LockLizard Safeguard has been selected by the premier marketing strategy intelligence organization Contagious Communications (www.contagiousmagazine.com) to protect their quarterly briefing magazine, and special reports, to be distributed in protected PDF format.

Contagious deliver intelligence briefings identifying ideas, trends and innovations behind the world's most revolutionary marketing strategies. Obviously this is serious intellectual capital, and Contagious do not want it to leak out into the marketplace reducing the value that they bring to their paying customers. LockLizard Safeguard is used to prevent the unauthorized use and misuse of Contagious Communications intellectual property by stopping copying, modifying, screen grabbing, saving and unauthorized distribution of their PDF documents.

Previously the primary delivery mechanism for reports, consultancy events and bespoke projects was print publishing. But the company is moving more and more to electronic distribution, and with that has come the need to both protect and open up new revenue streams.

"We liked the ease of use of Safeguard DRM, both for adding customers and for readily restricting assets. It is a simple system that does as it says. Through being able to diversify our offering to new and current clients as well as expanding our potential for revenue growth we have been able to add an element in which sections of our offering that may not have been able to generate a revenue previously, now are."

"We evaluated a number of products before choosing LockLizard. We selected them based on functionality and value for money and being the best fit for Contagious moving forwards."

"We would recommend LockLizard to other companies. I think that a company similar to us would be surprised at the revenue streams that it may open up. It is an easy to use platform so processing and admin times for sales and production staff are greatly reduced."

About LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security
LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security software protects documents published in PDF format with DRM copy controls and US Government strength, AES 256 bit, encryption. It secures information by preventing copying, modifying, screen grabbing, saving and distribution. In addition the document owner can control whether users can print protected documents, and, if so, how many times. Controls check how documents are used, by whom, for how long, and what can be done with them, in order enforce copyright and document retention policies. Protected information can be revoked at any stage. http://www.locklizard.com/pdf_security.htm

About LockLizard
LockLizard is a DRM vendor that produces document security, pdf security, ebook security, copy protection, and web content encryption products that use DRM technology to protect information from intellectual property theft. Our DRM software prevents copying, printing, screen grabbing, and sharing of information without the use of insecure passwords. http://www.locklizard.com

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