Why are PDFs susceptible to being tampered with and how could you do something about it If you go the right and click on Protect > Protect against tampering. What is a PDF Document? Oct 12, 2023 — Protecting PDF documents on smart devices and for online publication How is Encrypted data stored in Adobe After Effects How to Protect Adobe After Effects Files from being edited by third party programs Oct 21, 2023 — Protecting Adobe After Effects files from tampering Adobe If you go to the Documents Panel on the left and open up the Protect > Security panel then choose to encrypt with password This can provide some protection against unauthorized users, but it needs specific programs to work. You can also choose to allow “unverified users” How to protect Adobe After Effects files from being modified by third party programs How can Adobe protect users from unauthorized use of a smart device? (and related to Adobe After Effects) How to protect Adobe After Effects files from being tampered with If you go to the Document panel on the right and open the protection panel and choose to encrypt with password. You can protect your documents the same way on a smart device by following these steps: Go to the Smart Devices menu in the left panel of Adobe After Effects. Select the checkboxes in the security option bar. Go to the bottom right of the screen to set the user and group to allow or prevent. It is generally better to set this to allow a specific person or group to open and manage your documents, but these settings can be customized to work for many people. For example the username is what people on your account use when accessing your documents. The group name is a group of people that can access your documents and can also be customized. If you do not want to allow anyone to enter your document, but you want to prevent people from editing your documents, or you can prevent people from using your documents for anything else then you need to follow the step 2 – 3 above as well as the username and group. You can prevent an individual from editing your files with a password. Use this username on the Smart Device and group to restrict the individuals' ability to do the same. This is used to prevent them from editing your documents for any purpose. It can also protect them from deleting your files when you do not want them to do so. Do not use this type of protection for anything else than document editing.