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On-premises control over drawings, process know-how and supplier data, analysed inside your perimeter.

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Anexet console tracking movement of design files in a manufacturing company

Why intellectual property leaves the factory

Manufacturers run on proprietary know-how: CAD drawings, bills of materials, tolerances, tooling and process documents, pricing, and supplier terms. Engineers, designers, and contractors all need access to it, and it travels easily through email attachments, USB sticks, cloud sync, and the print room.

Anexet runs on-premises inside your own perimeter, so the vendor never sees your files. Its agents monitor how sensitive design and production data is used on the endpoint, alert you to risky activity, and block transfers that violate policy before a drawing ever leaves the building.

Digital fingerprints and hash banks let you register a drawing, a tooling spec, or a whole process-documentation folder once, then have Anexet recognize copies, excerpts, and edited versions of that content anywhere it moves on the network — not just exact-match files.

Where manufacturers lose ground

  • Design and process know-how exfiltration

    Drawings, BOMs, and tooling documents copied to personal email, USB drives, or cloud folders — quietly draining your competitive edge.

  • Engineers and contractors at risk of leaving

    Departing staff and short-term contractors taking project files, supplier lists, and know-how with them on the way out.

  • Email as the path of least resistance

    Specifications and quotes forwarded to private inboxes or the wrong supplier, far from any review or oversight.

How Anexet keeps know-how on the factory floor

One on-premises platform — data-leak prevention, employee monitoring, and IT inventory — built around how engineering and production teams actually share files.

Anexet console listing intercepted outgoing mail and file-transfer channels

Lock down every route a drawing can take out

Corporate email, 25+ messengers and team chats, web uploads, and cloud storage are intercepted on the endpoint, while USB-drive, printing, and clipboard activity is captured with shadow copies — so a CAD file or BOM cannot quietly leave through an unmonitored channel.

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Anexet policy screen matching a document against a digital fingerprint bank

Recognize a drawing wherever it resurfaces

Build a hash bank from your CAD drawings, tooling documents, and process files, and File Systems Monitoring will surface copies sitting in unapproved folders across the network — while content-aware rules based on digital fingerprints block a matching drawing from leaving before it does damage.

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Anexet incident investigation case file with attached evidence and event log

Turn a suspected leak into a defensible case

When intellectual property does go missing, full incident investigations reconstruct exactly which files moved, through which channel, and by whom.

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Capabilities engineering and security teams rely on

This solution leans on a few Anexet capabilities in particular:

Supports your compliance program

Anexet helps your organization support the data-protection and security obligations that apply to manufacturers, including:

  • GDPR
  • NIS2
  • Regional data-residency requirements

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

The same on-premise platform behind every plan — here's how security teams work with it day to day.

  • Anexet console reviewing intercepted email, messenger, web, and cloud communications

    Review intercepted communications across email, messengers, web, and cloud.

  • Anexet console configuring security policies and automatic risk-based blocking

    Define security policies and risk rules — and block violations automatically.

  • Anexet console showing employee activity and productivity across applications and websites

    Monitor employee activity and productivity across applications and sites.

  • Anexet console generating incident reports and dashboards for investigations and audits

    Generate incident reports and dashboards for investigations and audits.

From shop floor to full control

Getting Anexet to protect your designs and production data is a short, guided path.

Tell us about your sites, the engineering tools your teams use, and the obligations you are subject to.

1

Deploy on-premises and roll out cross-platform agents to engineering and production endpoints.

2

Security policies are tuned to the file types, channels, and devices that carry your designs and trade secrets.

3

Monitor, get alerted, investigate incidents, and refine rules as you add sites and teams.

4

Tell us about your sites, the engineering tools your teams use, and the obligations you are subject to.

1

Deploy on-premises and roll out cross-platform agents to engineering and production endpoints.

2

Security policies are tuned to the file types, channels, and devices that carry your designs and trade secrets.

3

Monitor, get alerted, investigate incidents, and refine rules as you add sites and teams.

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Manufacturing 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

Manufacturing FAQ

Common questions about using Anexet to protect designs and production secrets.

How does Anexet protect our designs and production secrets?

Anexet watches how proprietary data — CAD drawings, BOMs, tooling and process documents, pricing, and supplier terms — moves across email, messengers, the web, cloud storage, USB, print, and the clipboard, and can block transfers that break your policies before a file leaves the endpoint, keeping shadow copies of what was attempted.

Yes. Digital fingerprints compare intercepted content against a hash bank built from your drawings, BOMs, and process documents, and can match excerpts and edited copies, not just byte-identical files. File Systems Monitoring uses the same hash banks to search workstations for copies sitting in unapproved folders.

Yes. Job-search monitoring and keyword dictionaries flag staff researching vacancies, while user-behavior analysis highlights unusual file access and copying. Content-aware rules then block protected designs from leaving, and incident investigations give you an attributable trail to act on.

Anexet helps your organization support obligations such as GDPR, NIS2, and regional data-residency requirements by controlling data movement, logging file operations, 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 all data stays on your infrastructure and the vendor has no access to it. That supports data-residency requirements, and an optional on-prem AI model analyzes incidents locally with nothing sent over the internet.

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

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Protect your designs and production secrets with Anexet

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