Engineering IP Protection & Technical Data Security

Anexet gives industrial and engineering teams on-premise control over how drawings, CAD files, and project data travel — through email, messengers, web, cloud, and devices — and the evidence to investigate when something moves the wrong way.

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Anexet console tracking design-data movement in an engineering firm

Design data is your edge — and your biggest exposure

A drawing set is years of engineering work that fits on one USB stick or rides out in a single email attachment.

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-premise, 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 behaviour turns risky, and the ability to block transfers that breach policy before they leave the workstation.

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-premise 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 can't 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 break policy (Advanced) before an attachment reaches the wrong inbox.

  • Close the device, print, and clipboard gaps

    Audit and control USB and removable media, printing, and the clipboard, keep shadow copies of whatever was transferred, and block file operations that push drawings off the workstation (device audit from Standard, blocking from Advanced).

  • Catch flight risk before the handover

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

  • Investigate with court-grade evidence

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

  • Plug straight into your SOC

    Reports, dashboards, and real-time alerts put incidents in front of your team, and SIEM integration (Premium) forwards security events into the tooling your security operations already run.

See it running on your own drawings and email

Security officers work from one on-premise 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 summarising what matters.

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

Anexet interception console showing captured engineering email and file transfers
Anexet analytics dashboard with an insider-risk incident overview

Supports your compliance program

Anexet helps your organization support the data-protection, security, and IP-control obligations that apply to industrial and engineering firms, including:

  • GDPR
  • NIS2
  • IP-protection 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.

Capabilities engineering teams rely on

This solution leans on a few Anexet capabilities in particular:

From first call to full control

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

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

1

Deploy on-premise 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 answer to.

1

Deploy on-premise 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
Printers monitoring
Messengers interception
Browsers interception
and 4 more
Includes:
Anexet Activity
Most popular
AdvancedAdds DLP and deeper visibility.
Standard plan included
DLP features
Network shares monitoring
Keylogger
Webcam pictures
and 4 more
Includes:
Anexet DLP
Anexet Activity
All-in-one
PremiumAll-in-one solution.
Standard + Advanced plans included
Advanced search (digital fingerprints, hash search)
File systems monitoring
User relations analysis
Risk analysis
and 6 more
Includes:
Anexet DLP
Anexet Inventory
Anexet Activity
Anexet Ultimate

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.

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

Anexet helps your organization support requirements such as GDPR, NIS2, and IP-protection 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-premise 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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Tell us about your firm and environment — we'll recommend the right plan and walk you through a tailored demo.

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