Securing sensitive data across the manufacturing supply chain
By Nilesh Bhojani, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Seclore
A manufacturer can control who receives a product design. The harder question is what happens to that design once it leaves the organisation.
Every manufacturing programme depends on sensitive information moving across a network of suppliers, tooling companies, contract manufacturers, testing laboratories and other partners. CAD files, engineering drawings, bills of materials, specifications, production plans and pricing details routinely move between organisations to keep production running. Once that information leaves the manufacturer’s environment, however, the organisation’s ability to govern its use becomes limited.
The challenge becomes more complex as suppliers engage their own partners. A design shared with a tier-one supplier can move to a specialist tier-two vendor and potentially further down the chain, creating multiple points at which sensitive information can be accessed, copied or shared.
For Indian manufacturers expanding production capacity and integrating more deeply into global supply chains,...
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