security for PowerPoint presentations?

[CT]

Greetings all

My supervisor is very concerned about security with his PPT presentations.
We currently take measures including not sharing PPT on the web, not saving
them to computers that aren't ours (he presents from a laptop), avoiding
emailing ppt presentations,and sending the presentations we must send along
as PDF documents (so slides are not easily copied into new presentations).

Should we also be password protecting each presentation? I've read that we
can also encrypt information as well. Should I go ahead and do both?

thanks!
CT

 

[Luc]

CT,
Absolute security in distribution of presentations is not achievable, but
here are some ideas on how to protect them. Some of them you already tried,
others will be new:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00038.htm
If you have the neccessary resources you could also look into:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP062208591033.aspx

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

I hope the following is not confusing, but to be honest, nothing is secure.
And I mean, passwords can be broken, screenshots can be taken and photos can
be taken. In all honesty (aussie term), if it is important go to Information
Rights Management. This is in PowerPoint 2007 via the Microsoft Office
Button| Prepare| Restrict Permission| Manage Credentials. You will get
advice there about how to set that feature up.

Anyway, it is pretty good. That is, you can define who can open a
presentation, who can see it, who someone can email it to and when it will
expire (and then no one can do anything with it).

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

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