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Enabling Secure Engineering Data Sharing Across Global Industrial & Automotive Supply Chains
Industrial machinery and automotive manufacturers operate in complex, multi-tier supply chains where collaboration with suppliers, partners, and contractors worldwide is essential, but inherently risky. Variations in security maturity across partners, regulatory obligations, and the high value of proprietary designs and processes make it challenging to prevent intellectual property leaks, production delays, or competitive setbacks. Even small gaps in visibility or control can have outsized operational and financial consequences.
As sensitive engineering data moves beyond controlled PLM and ERP environments, manufacturers need more than repository-level protection. Leading organizations secure data by implementing controls over who can view, modify, or reuse it, enforcing contractual and regulatory restrictions, and maintaining visibility into how it flows across the supply chain. By combining Zero Trust principles and data-centric controls such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE), manufacturers reduce IP leakage, manage supplier and insider risks, and collaborate at scale without slowing engineering or disrupting production timelines.
Featured Industrial Machinery & Automotive Customers
Discover how leading industrial machinery and automotive manufacturers leverage NextLabs to manage insider and supply chain risks, maintain regulatory compliance, and protect sensitive engineering data, enabling teams to collaborate confidently across extended global supply chains.
Bajaj Auto Group
Bajaj Auto Group shares sensitive engineering data, including 2D and 3D designs, with multi-tier suppliers and partners, but protecting critical IP once it leaves Siemens Teamcenter was a challenge. To address this, Bajaj Auto Group implemented NextLabs SkyDRM for Teamcenter, using dynamic authorization with attribute-based access control (ABAC) to enforce fine-grained access and usage controls. As a result, confidential information is accessible only to authorized users, enabling secure collaboration across Bajaj’s extended enterprise while reducing the risk of IP leakage and sharing violations.
Explore Delivering Value with Zero Trust Data-Centric Security for Industrial Machinery & Automotive
Leading Industrial Machinery & Automotive companies rely on NextLabs Zero Trust Data Security to protect sensitive engineering and design data, and critical manufacturing information while ensuring compliance with global regulations. With NextLabs solutions, organizations can
Enforce consistent access and usage policies across engineering teams and multi-tier suppliers to protect sensitive designs and engineering data, reducing the risk of accidental or unauthorized data exposure.
Evaluate access requests in real time using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and Dynamic Authorization, considering attributes of the user, data, and environment to ensure only authorized actions are allowed and IP is protected across multi-tier suppliers and collaborators.
Apply security controls directly within engineering and product development processes to protect sensitive designs and IP without slowing design, collaboration, or production timelines.
- Automated Monitoring & Risk Detection
Continuously track engineering data usage, detect unusual activity, and provide real-time alerts to mitigate insider, supplier, and operational risks.
Ensure data sharing aligns with global and local regulations, contractual obligations, and industry standards, reducing audit risk across multi-tier suppliers
Protect critical intellectual property with data-centric controls like Digital Rights Management (DRM), minimizing insider, supplier, or accidental leaks and keeping production and design processes running smoothly.
- Scalable Multi-Tier Protection
Extend secure access controls across multiple partners, suppliers, and collaborators, enabling safe global collaboration while maintaining visibility and control over sensitive engineering
