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CAD Data Protection

On-premises control over engineering drawings and project data. Every outbound channel analyzed inside your perimeter.

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Design data is your edge — and your biggest exposure

Engineering and industrial firms run on data that competitors would pay dearly for: CAD drawings, design specifications, bills of materials, tender documents, and prototype data. It changes hands constantly between designers, contractors, and project partners — over email, messengers, web uploads, cloud folders, and removable drives.

Anexet runs entirely on-premises, so the vendor never sees a single file. Cross-platform agents watch those channels at the endpoint, giving security teams visibility into how design data is used, alerts when behavior turns risky, and the ability to block transfers that breach policy before they leave the workstation.

Anexet doesn't need to open a CAD assembly to protect it: file-info rules match project files by extension and size across the formats your teams actually use (DWG and other CAD extensions among them), while digital fingerprints and hash banks recognize a registered drawing set — or an edited copy of one — the moment it tries to leave.

Where engineering firms lose data

  • Drawing and design-file movement

    CAD files, specs, and tender packs copied to personal cloud, USB, or chat threads — sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately.

  • Flight risk among engineers

    Designers heading to a competitor quietly take their project history and drawing libraries with them on the way out.

  • Email as the open back door

    Attachments forwarded to personal or partner addresses across protocols the security team isn't watching.

How Anexet defends engineering data

Three products in one on-premises platform — data-leak prevention, employee monitoring, and IT inventory — set up for the way design and project teams actually work.

  • Watch every channel a drawing can leave by

    Intercept corporate email, 25+ messengers and team chats, web uploads, cloud storage, and SIP/VoIP calls on the endpoint, with built-in risk assessment — so a drawing set cannot slip out through a channel nobody is monitoring.

  • Secure project email on every protocol

    Monitor outgoing engineering mail across POP3, SMTP, IMAP, and MAPI, apply custom address lists and notifications, and quarantine or block messages that violate policy before an attachment reaches the wrong inbox.

  • Close the device, print, and clipboard gaps

    Audit and control USB drives and removable media, printing, and the clipboard, keep shadow copies of whatever was transferred, and block file operations that push drawings off the workstation.

  • Recognize CAD files and drawing sets by fingerprint

    Register your drawing libraries and project folders as a hash bank, then have Anexet match copies and edited versions of that content wherever it's intercepted — plus file-info rules that flag project files by extension and size, without needing to read what's inside a CAD assembly.

  • Catch flight risk before the handover

    Job-search monitoring with custom keyword thesauruses surfaces engineers exploring the market, while user-behavior analysis flags unusual access to drawing libraries and project folders.

  • Investigate with court-grade evidence

    When a drawing does leave, full incident investigations reconstruct exactly what happened from a complete, attributable trail — solid enough to support disciplinary action or a legal case.

See it running on your own drawings and email

Security officers work from one on-premises console: follow how design data moves in real time, replay captured email and file operations, and open any incident down to the keystroke — with an optional local AI model summarizing what matters.

Prebuilt and custom policies turn that visibility into action, raising alerts and blocking violations the instant a drawing or spec violates a rule you've set.

File Systems Monitoring runs the same drawing-library hash banks against every workstation, so a copy left sitting in a personal folder or an unmanaged network share shows up in the search results instead of staying hidden.

Anexet file systems monitoring results: files found on workstations, listed with the local user, file path, and last change date
Anexet search results listing intercepted emails: sender and recipient, subject, attachment name, and size for each message

Supports your compliance program

Anexet helps your organization support the data-protection, security, and intellectual-property obligations that apply to industrial and engineering firms.

  • GDPR
  • NIS2
  • Intellectual-property requirements
  • Data-residency requirements

Anexet is a compliance-support tool. It is not a certification and does not replace your own legal or audit assessment.

From first call to full control

Getting Anexet to monitor your design data is a short, guided path.

Tell us about your environment, the channels engineers use, and the regulations you are subject to.

1

Deploy on-premises and roll out cross-platform agents to the workstations you choose.

2

Switch on policies for the drawings, specs, and channels that matter most to your projects.

3

Monitor, get alerted, investigate incidents, and refine your rules as the firm grows.

4

Tell us about your environment, the channels engineers use, and the regulations you are subject to.

1

Deploy on-premises and roll out cross-platform agents to the workstations you choose.

2

Switch on policies for the drawings, specs, and channels that matter most to your projects.

3

Monitor, get alerted, investigate incidents, and refine your rules as the firm grows.

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Industrial & engineering protection by plan

StandardCore employee activity monitoring.
Network traffic interception
USB control
Printer monitoring
Messenger interception
Browser interception
and 4 more
Most popular
AdvancedAdds DLP and deeper visibility.
Standard plan included
DLP features
Network share monitoring
Keylogger
Webcam pictures
and 4 more
All-in-one
PremiumAll-in-one solution.
Standard + Advanced plans included
Advanced search (digital fingerprints, hash search)
File system monitoring
User relationship analysis
Risk analysis
and 6 more

Industrial & Engineering FAQ

Common questions about running Anexet in industrial and engineering organizations.

How does Anexet protect engineering drawings and design data?

Anexet tracks how design data — CAD drawings, specifications, bills of materials, and project documents — moves across email, messengers, web, cloud, and devices, and can block transfers that break your policies before the files leave the workstation.

No — Anexet doesn't parse CAD geometry or assembly content. It recognizes drawing sets by digital fingerprint and hash bank, and can match project files by extension and file size, which is enough to stop a registered drawing set or an edited copy of one from leaving without needing to open it.

Yes. Job-search monitoring with custom keyword thesauruses surfaces engineers exploring the job market, user-behavior analysis flags unusual access to drawings and project folders, and incident investigations give your team a complete, attributable trail to act on.

Anexet helps your organization support requirements such as GDPR, NIS2, and intellectual-property and data-residency rules by controlling data movement, logging access, and producing incident reports. Anexet itself is not a certification and does not replace your legal or audit assessment.

Yes. Anexet is deployed on-premises inside your own perimeter, so your drawing and project databases never leave the organization. The vendor has no access to your data, and an optional on-prem AI model analyzes incidents locally, with no data sent over the internet — which helps satisfy strict data-residency requirements.

Pricing is available on request. Tell us about your environment and the number of endpoints, and we'll recommend the right plan — Standard, Advanced, or Premium.

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