Manufacturing: CAD EDRM | Ex-employee Stole Data Use Case

Data Security

File-centric, protect-first approach

Prevent a disgruntled employee from taking design files to a competitor

An engineer at a manufacturing company is not happy with her job and starts looking for a position with competitors. She shows potential employers product designs as an incentive to hire her. A competitor hires her and she takes all her CAD files from existing products and ones yet to come on the market to the new employer. The new company starts manufacturing the products shortly after hiring her. Her old employer sees their products coming on the market before they release them and realizes that the former employee stole the designs.

Fasoo Enterprise DRM automatically encrypts and applies protection policies to CAD and other sensitive files when saved. When an authorized user exports a design file to another format, like a PDF, the derivative file is automatically encrypted and only accessible by authorized users. When the engineer copied the file to an external storage device, a cloud location, or sent it to herself through email, she and her new employe would not be able to access the file. This ensures the sensitive data remains inside the company. Fasoo protects the company’s designs and patent information by encrypting and applying persistent security policies to protect them regardless of where they are or their format.

Encrypt design files or documents with patent information
Securely share files internally with different departments or externally with suppliers
Control who can View, Edit, Print, and take a Screen Capture of CAD or other sensitive files
Apply an access time limit to the shared design files and even revoke access immediately, regardless of location
Protect intellectual property so it can’t be exploited by competitors