Secure Sensitive PDFs Before Problems Start

Apply encryption, passwords, redaction, and permissions to secure sensitive information and maintain compliance across every document.

Why Protect with Foxit

Security That Goes Beyond Passwords

From encryption to redaction, protect your documents at every level with tools designed for enterprise security requirements.

Control Who Sees What

Apply certificate-based protection with granular permissions to control printing, editing, and copying.

Permanently Remove Sensitive Data

Redaction and whiteout tools that completely eliminate content—not just hide it—ensuring sensitive information is gone forever.

Help with Compliance

Meet regulatory requirements with Microsoft RMS integration, audit trails, and enterprise security policies.

Simple Security

Protect Documents in Three Steps

Apply comprehensive security to any PDF with intuitive tools that make protection effortless.

1

Lock down access and permissions

Open your PDF and go to Protect to apply certificate-based encryption. Control exactly what recipients can do—view only, print, copy text, or edit—so sensitive documents stay under your control even after sharing.

2

Permanently remove sensitive information

Use Redaction tools to mark confidential text, images, or entire pages for removal. Once applied, redacted content is completely deleted from the document, not just hidden—protecting you from data leaks and compliance failures.

3

Enforce enterprise-grade security policies

Apply Microsoft MIP protection, trusted locations, and security settings to align with organizational policies. Maintain compliance with audit-ready controls designed for regulated environments and enterprise workflows.

Certificate Protection

Secure documents with open passwords, permission passwords, or certificate-based encryption. Control exactly what recipients can do with your PDF.

  • Set separate passwords for opening and permissions
  • Choose 128-bit or 256-bit AES encryption
  • Restrict printing, copying, editing, or form filling
Password protection interface

Redaction Tools

Permanently remove sensitive information with powerful redaction tools. Search and redact across documents, create profiles for consistent application.

  • Mark for Redaction to preview before applying
  • Search & Redact to find patterns across pages
  • Create Redaction Profiles for consistent use
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Redaction tools interface

Whiteout

Instantly remove content with one click. Unlike redaction, whiteout immediately eliminates selected areas without a separate apply step.

  • Select and remove content instantly
  • No preview step—immediate removal
  • Content is permanently deleted, not hidden
Whiteout feature demonstration

Hidden Data Removal

Sanitize documents to remove metadata, comments, attachments, scripts, and other hidden information before sharing externally.

  • Remove metadata and document properties
  • Delete comments, form data, and attachments
  • Sanitize Document for one-click cleanup
Hidden data removal interface

Microsoft RMS Integration

Integrate with Microsoft Azure Information Protection to apply sensitivity labels and enforce enterprise security policies automatically.

  • Apply Azure sensitivity labels to PDFs
  • Enforce organization-wide protection policies
  • Seamless integration with Microsoft 365
Microsoft RMS integration
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