Case Study: Largest Hardware and Software Technology Company achieves full IP visibility and control without endpoint performance impact with Fortra's Digital Guardian

Gaining IP Visibility and Control Without Impacting Endpoint Performance

This case involves a global industrial automation leader that invests over $300M annually in R&D, making proprietary source code, designs, and trade secrets critical competitive assets. Facing sophisticated industrial espionage threats, the CISO needed a non‑invasive solution that protected engineering IP without slowing endpoints or disrupting workflows, integrated with existing systems (ClearCase, Active Directory, Splunk), and could be delivered as a managed service.

They selected Fortra’s Digital Guardian, which automatically classified ClearCase content, honored AD permissions, and fed alerts to Splunk while using lightweight endpoint agents. A phased rollout—visibility, soft prompts, then full blocking—was deployed as an MSP across 5,000 endpoints, giving the company complete visibility and enforceable controls over IP, no measurable performance impact, reduced internal overhead, and a trusted vendor partnership.