Case Study: Global Manufacturing Company justifies IP protection investment with RiskLens

Manufacturing Co. CISO Justifies Project to Protect IP from Cyber Theft

Global Manufacturing Company, a $50 billion manufacturing business, needed to justify a major intellectual property protection initiative after spending heavily on security controls. Management wanted proof in financial terms that the project reduced risk, but the CISO’s existing tools only produced qualitative ratings, not dollar-based risk estimates. RiskLens was brought in to help quantify the company’s IP exposure before and after the controls.

Using the RiskLens platform and FAIR-based risk quantification, analysts modeled historic and current data, combined internal activity with industry data, and ran Monte Carlo simulations to estimate loss exposure. RiskLens showed that annualized loss exposure dropped from $275 million without the virtual vault to $561,000 with it in place—a 99% reduction—giving the CISO a clear cost/benefit justification for the project.