A global 100 engineering and electronics conglomerate had recently suffered a loss of proprietary intellectual property (IP). Their highly competitive market required constant innovation, and their workforce had expanded to thousands of scientists, engineers, and technicians on five continents. With IP valued at over $30 billion USD, they understood they were an attractive target for IP theft. Now it had occurred, with no proof of who was the perpetrator. The company began an initiative to control more closely its IP and trade secrets, and turned to Digital Guardian® for assistance.

1. Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP)
Protection
Electronics Technology Customer Success Story

2. Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection
 Background:
A global 100 engineering and electronics conglomerate
had recently suffered a loss of proprietary intellectual
property (IP). Their highly competitive market required
constant innovation, and their workforce had expanded
to thousands of scientists, engineers, and technicians on
five continents. With IP valued at over $30 billion USD,
they understood they were an attractive target for IP
theft. Now it had occurred, with no proof of who the
perpetrator was.
The company began an initiative to control more closely
its IP and trade secrets, and turned to Digital Guardian®
for assistance.
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3.  Company: Global 100 Technology Company
 Challenge
• Recently suffered a loss of proprietary intellectual
property (IP)
• With no proof of who the perpetrator was
• Control more closely its IP and trade secrets
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Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

4.  Critical Success Factors
• Identify and classify unstructured data, some code
code and CAD files
• Improve data sharing across a global workforce
while preventing IP loss
• Classify data in multiple formats and languages
quickly and accurately
• Enforce appropriate use of data by users with
varying privileges
• Allow authorized users to move data via approved
approved methods, but only with appropriate and
and recorded justification
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Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

5.  Environment
• 9,000 workstations
• Virtual desktops
• Internal users on five continents
 Solution: Digital Guardian agents
deployed with the following controls:
• Customer used Digital Guardian’s
classification API to build their own
automatic classification rules
• Critical data was classified quickly by Digital
Digital Guardian auto classification
Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

6.  Results
 Classification of all data based on data context and content, even on proprietary
systems
 Immediate visibility into all user activity, without impacting productivity
 Enhanced data sharing without loss of IP
 Written, recorded justification for movement of critical data by email or to
removable devices
 Automatic encryption of critical files moved by email or to removable devices
 Expanded their use of Digital Guardian to other divisions, more than doubling the
initial deployment
Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

7. Digital Guardian Facts
 Over 250 customers 130 of the Global 2000 and government agencies
 Over 2,100,000 endpoints protected
 130 of the Global 2000 and government agencies
 Used by 7 of the top 10 patent holders
 Only solution to scale to 250,000 agents0 agents
 Deployment Models:
• Managed Security Program (MSP)
• On Premise
• Hybrid MSP
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Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

8. 8
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Case Study: Intellectual Property (IP) Protection
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