Protect engineering IP
Protect engineering value across suppliers, contractors and plants.
Engineering Head, Plant Head, CISO
Recipient-bound files with expiry and revocation
Watermarking, device and location controls, records
The answer in 30 seconds
Keep drawings and design files recipient-bound, expiring, revocable and attributable across supplier ecosystems.
Challenge the status quo
Manufacturers protect plants, PLM systems and engineering repositories carefully. Yet the most valuable design files must still move to suppliers, contractors, consultants and production partners. Once downloaded, a drawing can become an ordinary file outside the original control boundary.
Release route
Released file
Rights end at the handoff
Sealed design
Rights travel with it
Each one ends the same way: a design file outside the original control boundary.
Why this matters now
Every engineering leader should ask: when a supplier engagement ends, what happens to every drawing and design package already shared? If the organization cannot answer technically, its product perimeter ends at the supplier’s download folder.
That is why CAD protection is not merely a storage or access-control problem. It is a lifecycle problem. The organization must allow legitimate engineering collaboration while ensuring that rights expire, revisions remain visible and a leaked copy can be traced or disabled.
Global supply chains, outsourced engineering and rapid product cycles have increased the number of external users handling design data. The same design package may pass through tendering, prototyping, manufacturing and service phases, each with different users and permissions.
A leaked drawing can expose the product before launch, enable counterfeiting, compromise safety, weaken a tender or give competitors years of research. The damage is not limited to confidentiality; uncontrolled versions can also create operational and quality risk.
Vaultize keeps supported design files recipient-bound with expiry, revocation, dynamic watermarking, device and location controls, revision visibility and per-recipient activity records. Supplier access can end with the contract instead of surviving indefinitely on unmanaged devices.
Cost of inaction
Access, retention and redistribution continue beyond the organization’s effective reach.
Audit and investigation depend on fragmented records or voluntary cooperation.
Confidentiality loss can affect revenue, litigation, compliance, trust and strategic position.
Offboarding, revocation, recovery or legal retrieval becomes manual and uncertain.
The Vaultize value proposition
Vaultize carries identity, protection, policy, revocation and activity evidence with the sensitive file. Existing infrastructure remains essential; Vaultize closes the continuing-governance gap after the file moves, is shared or is downloaded.
Vaultize Seal encrypts the document at source and seals persistent view, edit, print, copy, forward and download rights into it, so the rights stay with the file after it is downloaded, copied or forwarded. Applied within the supported Vaultize workflow and policy configuration.
Time-based access expires on its own, and real-time revocation withdraws access from copies that have already been downloaded or distributed when the engagement ends. Policy can be updated in real time after the design package has been shared.
Dynamic watermarking marks each viewed copy with the recipient’s identity, and geo, IP, time, device and domain conditions are evaluated when the file is opened rather than only when it was sent.
A full recipient audit trail and exportable reports record who opened, edited, printed or forwarded each file, from where and when, while immutable version history keeps the correct revision recoverable.
Architecture fit
Best fit for
Engineering heads, plant leaders, CISOs and supplier-risk teams. Start where the business impact is highest and expand through repeatable policy.
How Vaultize fits
Vaultize complements the customer’s existing storage, identity, DLP, email, endpoint, network and recovery controls by governing the file after those systems have done their job. Vaultize Share moves any file size and any file type through an MFA-enabled governed link, so large design packages reach suppliers without falling back to unmanaged routes.
Discovery questions
What happens to every design package after a supplier engagement ends?
Which documents, users and external workflows create the highest exposure for CAD engineering design file protection?
What happens today when access must be withdrawn, evidence produced or the correct version recovered?
Frequently asked
Clear answers for buyers and evaluators.
Start there. Take the last drawing or design package the organization sent to a supplier and ask what technical control remains over access, redistribution, expiry and evidence. Vaultize keeps drawings and design files recipient-bound, expiring, revocable and attributable across supplier ecosystems, so rights expire with the engagement, access can be withdrawn from copies already downloaded, each viewed copy carries a dynamic identity watermark and per-recipient activity is recorded.
A practical next step
A focused 30-minute review to map the documents, sharing paths and control gaps that matter most in your environment.
