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Enabling Secure, Global Data Access for High-Tech Innovators
High-tech companies face operational challenges in managing critical technical assets across globally distributed teams, field operations, and partner networks. Engineers rely on rapid access to source code, proprietary algorithms, CAD designs, and PLM or ERP data to drive product innovation, often using emerging cloud platforms, developer tools, and even shadow IT. While extensive collaboration, is essential for speed and productivity, it increases the risk of data theft, unauthorized technology usage, and accidental exposure. Without granular access controls, centralized governance, and data-centric protections, sensitive information can be misused, regulatory requirements may be breached, and delays in development or field operations can undermine competitiveness.
To address these complexities, leading high-tech firms are adopting Zero Trust, data-centric security solutions to protect sensitive engineering and product data across distributed teams, endpoints, cloud platforms, and collaboration tools. These solutions leverage fine-grained, attribute-based access (ABAC), dynamic authorization, encryption, and automated lifecycle protections to ensure data remains secure in the field and across partner networks. By centralizing policy management and enforcing controls in real time, organizations can maintain operational agility, prevent unauthorized access or data leakage, and enable safe collaboration without slowing innovation or disrupting workflows.
Featured High-Tech Customer
Discover how leading high-tech companies safeguard critical intellectual property, secure source code and engineering data across cloud, field, and partner environments, and maintain regulatory compliance while enabling secure global collaboration across distributed teams.
KLA-Tencor
KLA-Tencor faced the challenge of protecting critical intellectual property and technical data while equipping over 2,000 field engineers worldwide with laptops containing system diagnostics and yield optimization information. To address this risk, KLA-Tencor implemented NextLabs Data Protection, providing persistent protection for IP across multiple formats and devices, while enabling secure sharing with field engineers. As a result, KLA-Tencor can maintain centralized visibility and control over data-sharing policies, ensure compliance with audit and regulatory requirements, and support ad-hoc business-critical collaboration without disrupting normal workflows or slowing operations.
Explore Delivering Value with Zero Trust Data-Centric Security for High-Tech Organizations
Leading High-Tech organizations rely on NextLabs’ Zero Trust Data Security security to protect intellectual property, engineering data, and proprietary technology across the information lifecycle, while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. With NextLabs, organizations can:
Enforces uniform, attribute-based policies across engineering, R&D, and product IP stored in structured and unstructured repositories, regardless of application, cloud platform, or location, ensuring distributed teams and global supply chain partners adhere to consistent controls.
Protects high-value IP such as source code, firmware, CAD/PLM files, and technical documentation using DRM, encryption, data masking and segregation, safeguarding files on servers, endpoints, and cloud platforms against accidental or unauthorized exposure.
Applies ABAC and real-time authorization to control who can view, modify, share, or extract sensitive IP based on user identity, role, project phase, and operational context, including enforcement at the application level to prevent offline or unauthorized access.
Enables safe sharing of engineering drawings, product designs, and proprietary technical data with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and partners while blocking IP leakage to USB devices, e-mail, or file servers.
- Automated Monitoring and Risk Prevention
Continuously tracks access and usage of critical IP, triggers real-time alerts on unusual activity, automatically enforces policies to prevent insider threats, supply chain risks, and operational disruptions.
- Audit and Compliance Visibility
Consolidates access logs and usage activities across distributed teams, partner networks, and devices to provide centralized visibility, anomaly detection, and comprehensive audit trails for regulatory and IP governance requirements.
Maintains consistent IP governance across global operations, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements while supporting the scaling of engineering teams, product lines, and partner ecosystems securely.
