Intellectual Property Leakage Prevention

CRITICAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEEDS SPECIAL PROTECTION

Detecting Intellectual Property Leaks Isn't Good Enough

Intellectual property leakage is a critical concern for enterprises. Intellectual property is the lifeblood of many enterprises. It's what helps them deliver for your customers, makes them different and special, and keeps them ahead of the competition.

And, since IP assets of all kinds – like chip designs, software source code, autonomous driving models, pharmaceutical research, and even film content – are digital, they're easily leaked.

It's no wonder cybercriminals put so much emphasis on such cyber espionage.

Many companies rely on Data Leak Prevention (DLP) tools to prevent intellectual property leakage, but too often, they focus on detecting corporate IP as it passes through the enterprise gates. It can be challenging to identify a leak at the edge of the IP, especially when leakage may look like a legal access.

It can be even more difficult to detect a leak at the enterprise boundary. Even if a leak is detected, Infosec teams must race against time to identify the path, plug the leak and hunt for more threats lurking in the network. But the IP? It's long gone.

LEGACY NETWORK SECURITY DOESN'T PROVIDE ENOUGH VISIBILITY AND CONTROLS

Containing IP With Network Tools is Difficult

IP has to be accessible to be useful. The challenge is how to ensure that only authorized individuals can access it, and that their access doesn't put the IP at risk.

It's difficult to achieve this with legacy network security like firewalls, that can't associate network traffic with user identity. Furthermore, traditional network security can't control the access method to prevent allowed network ports from becoming avenues for data leaks. It also can't see IP that's transported across the network boundary, hidden in other data flows.

SIMPLE AND EASY TO DEPLOY

CoIP Platform Zero Trust Security Blocks IP Leaks

CoIP Platform with Zero Trust Security is game-changing for intellectual property leakage prevention. Authenticating and authorizing each network transaction against user identity ensures that users can only access the resources they are authorized to.

Endpoint-level controls also ensure that only approved applications and tools on specific compute servers may be used to access, process, and transfer IP. Such controls are policy-based, and provide much higher detection and prevention for IP leaks at the compute workload level.

With CoIP Platform, it's easy to

Restrict access to stored IP to prevent internal leaks
Create virtual zones for safe handling and computing use of IP
Provide secure and granular user access to IP for employees, contractors, and 3rd parties

A NEW AND DIFFERENT APPROACH

Application Chambers Contain IP and Stop Data Leaks

Application Chambers instantly and virtually segment servers or VMs that access, handle, or consume critical IP, providing total visibility and access control to the IP. All transfers of data into and out of the Chamber are restricted to approved, safe access methods.

Chambered machines are cloaked from the network, rendering them invisible to insider threats and ransomware.

At the same time, Application Chambers block unapproved accesses to local or remote machines, blocking exfiltration and command-and-control activity.

CoIP Platform's Zero Trust Application Access provides direct access for authenticated users, with application-level controls that allows administrators to restrict access to remote desktops or specific, allowed client software. This gives administrators control of risky application behavior, such as file transfers and copy/paste.

With Application Chambers and ZTNA to control and lock compute resources around critical IP, CoIP Platform allows enterprises to implement a Zero Trust Security infrastructure that protects the critical IP wherever it is hosted.

Benefits of Critical IP Protection with CoIP Platform

Real Theft Prevention

Unlike other DLP solutions which only detect theft, IP loss and theft is blocked with Zero Trust, file transfer, and copy/paste controls

Complete Access Visibility

Provides complete, auditable logs of all user access and attempted violations

Seamless User Experience

Complete, end-to-end flow for user and access authentication and authorization

Defends Insider Threats

Cloaks critical IP to prevent lateral access from insiders, and controls outbound access to prevent exfiltration

Secure IP Access for 3rd Parties

Granular controls enable access to be granted to specific projects or servers for safe 3rd party access

See what our customers have to say

“CoIP gives you the security that you need, and at the same time, overlay networking gives you a level of agility that you just don’t have today in a traditional infrastructure.”

Luis Espinoza, Senior IT Manager Global Operations, Mentor Graphics - A Siemens Business

“Traditionally, this kind of thing would’ve taken many weeks to complete (if allowed at all), but we were able to put them in place during 30-minute meetings. We definitely would recommend this technology to folks who would like to extend their internal environments to the cloud.”

Director, a Fortune 500 customer

“Zentera stands out from other platforms due to their focused ability to allow enterprises to control workloads and avoid the risk of disrupting existing corporate infrastructure.”

CIO Review

“With the CoIP Platform, we are able to protect our IP and segment our resources across worldwide infrastructures almost instantly.”

Cally Ko, CIO, Delta Electronics

“CoIP Platform’s best-in-class micro-segmentation keeps our customers secure, and we and our customers have saved a significant amount of time in configuration and deployment.”

Andrew Hamilton, CTO, Cybriant

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SOLUTION BRIEF

Secure Developer Access to Critical IP

Out of all of the types of users who need access to IP, developers are some of the most demanding. That's because they need an intimate level of access that allows them not just to reference IP, but to create and maintain it as well.

CoIP Access Platform is well-suited to these challenges, with powerful Zero Trust Application Access and Application Chambers that contain IP, while keeping access simple and easy to use for developers. Download the solution brief to learn more.

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Protecting Critical Intellectual Property

Simple. Agile. Leak-Proof.