Manufacturing

In the manufacturing industry, blue prints and product maps combine with detailed process workflows to create a company’s proprietary methods for creating their goods. These “secret sauce” recipes are intellectual property that are extremely confidential in nature; a leak of this data would allow competitors to duplicate a design or process that often represents extensive research and carries a high level of brand recognition and loyalty. Each user in the organization must be given adequate rights to perform their jobs while still ensuring that the secure manufacturing secrets are shared only with those who absolutely need to access them; even users who should have access must be monitored to ensure that critical files are used appropriately. Further complicating the problem is the fact that offices and IT personnel are often distributed worldwide, necessitating a universal solution that can both scale and produce timely results.