How can companies prevent Inventor and SolidWorks drawings from leaking out?

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Design departments in China’s manufacturing industry make extensive use of various CAD software, such as AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, as well as domestic options like Kaimu, Yaochuang, and Zhongwang CAD, with inconsistent versions being used. In some companies, development is carried out through internal network collaboration, and files generated by various software programs need to be cross-referenced, resulting in a very complex application environment. secWall Data Wall Enterprise Edition, with its unique proactive encryption theory and mechanism for transmitting confidential attributes, ensures that INVENTOR and SOLIDWORKS drawings created by a company’s R&D departments remain encrypted at all times. Whether through copying, network transmission, or by using components from these drawings, or even if the computers used for work are taken away or the hard drives storing the data are removed, INVENTOR and SOLIDWORKS drawing files become meaningless garbage data as soon as they leave the company’s environment. SecWall’s real-time encryption and decryption driver engine ensures that encrypted data can be used directly without the need for decryption; as a result, encrypted drawings function exactly the same within an enterprise as they would before encryption. Therefore, secWall adds no efficiency cost to the confidentiality of drawings. The core components of secWall Enterprise Edition run at the underlying level of the WINDOWS operating system, and do not have direct contact with the company’s various application software or environments. It supports the operation of all INVENTOR and SOLIDWORKS versions, and is not customized for any specific application. In a corporate environment, employees do not need to worry whether files are encrypted or not, as this does not change the existing ways of working and usage habits; therefore, no special training is required for them. In some companies that have implemented the SecWall security system, employees are not even aware of its existence for a long time. In the secWall Enterprise version, proactive encryption technology monitors the flow of sensitive data at all times. Files created by extracting data from encrypted drawings, documents, or code through methods such as clipboard copying or mouse dragging also retain their confidential status. If a piece of data from an encrypted file is inserted into a file that was not originally encrypted, the new file will be fully encrypted due to that encrypted segment of data. Even image files saved by screen copying (screenshotting) of windows containing confidential drawings or code are automatically encrypted. Since the confidentiality of the secWall system does not depend on specific application software, ensuring the confidentiality of various INVENTOR and SOLIDWORKS drawings is just one industry example of its use. In fact, the secWall system can ensure the confidentiality of electronic documents used in various industry applications – such as protecting graphics and images in the graphic design industry, program source codes in the software industry, and PLC source codes in the automation industry. It is also suitable for securing Office documents, customer information, confidential documents in OA systems, and sensitive data in ERP systems in everyday office environments. The main advantage of features that are independent of specific applications lies not only in their wide range of applications, but more importantly in the fact that they ensure the confidentiality system remains functional even after customers change their application software or upgrade existing software. From an investment value perspective, this is where the secWall system truly preserves and increases its value.