Information resources and information systems are among the main protected elements in all spheres of life of modern enterprises [11-15]. Today, the means of negative information impact on these elements are actively developing, the counteraction of which requires extensive diverse research and development of relevant concepts, programs for organizing specific work in the field of creating tools, methods and techniques for ensuring information security. Illegal distribution of digital documents by authorized but unscrupulous users is a growing threat to the confidentiality of organizations, which a document management system using only encryption methods cannot fully cope with. This problem occurs together with access to a digital document by unauthorized users. In this article, as a countermeasure to protect digital documents from these two threats, a new approach is proposed that carefully combines encryption and fingerprinting methods at certain stages of the digital document lifecycle. Within this scenario, a full analysis was carried out, in which the main constituent elements, their interaction, data flow and the provision of security services were identified. This protection system guarantees a sufficient level of security, since it uses standard cryptographic algorithms and recommended key sizes. The purpose of this approach is to provide information security services such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation and user tracking, thereby protecting digital documents throughout their entire life cycle.