Case Study: Large Pharmaceutical Company achieves full data visibility, IP protection, and reduced IT complexity with Fortra's Digital Guardian

Large Pharmaceutical Company - Customer Case Study

A major pharmaceutical company faced the challenge of protecting high-value R&D intellectual property used across thousands of workstations and shared with external partners, without slowing time‑to‑market or researcher productivity. The organization needed visibility into how scientists handled formulas and other sensitive data, the ability to protect application‑level content even after it moved between documents or systems, and controls that worked with contractors and clinical partners.

Fortra’s Digital Guardian profiled the company’s critical R&D applications and applied context‑based, automatic classification and persistent tagging so sensitive files are identified, tracked, and protected throughout their lifecycle. Deployed initially in monitor mode to log copy/paste, email and print activity, the solution delivered full visibility, maintained classification through derivatives, reduced the number of applications handling critical data by 80%, and simplified IT footprint while improving data protection and researcher productivity.