BLACKbox resolved issues related to data leakage, data loss prevention, data theft and ransom-ware associated to client’s previous infrastructure
About Client:
The client is an accomplished Indian architect who has clients across the globe, and who is a BLACKbox customer. The client employs world-class talent and they create intellectual assets like original designs, drawings, concepts, and research reports.
Executive Summary:
The client creates intellectual assets like original designs, drawings, concepts, and research reports. Their intellectual assets were in physical form and until they came across BLACKbox, the client was always advised to procure certain IT components that can store their digital assets. The client invested in File Server of very high quality and spent huge money on Microsoft Licensing.
However, the client lost very critical drawings which could never be recovered. The client defaulted on the deadline and the reworked cost was significant. He was given the reason that though they purchased an expensive file server, his employee saved data on his desktop only. That desktop crashed and they lost data despite investment in a file server, which was never used by the employee.
The employee further gave the explanation that their files are very large and their file server was not good enough to facilitate data storage on the network in a real-time manner. He could not concentrate on his work as every time he hit save, he had to wait and many a time his files got corrupt while being saved on the network. After spending a lot of money, the client was still dependent on the employee’s discretion to use the device and due to certain genuine limitations; his employees were not using the hardware.
When the BLACKbox sales representative connected with the client, the client was impressed with the feature of BLACKbox known as forced centralization, which forces the user to save data on a central location. Further, the client had a problem with large files that were difficult to store over the network. BLACKbox even has a solution to this problem as it is empowered by SSD caching and link aggregation, which completely enhances user's experience while working on a network.
The client was able to see a reliable, sensible, and sincere approach towards Data Loss Prevention with BLACKbox. Along with that, the sales executive explained the active recycle bin, which can instantly recover deleted data. He also explained vault and workspace, which answered the client’s concern over the ransom-ware situation. The sales executive even explained the data center disaster response solution, which answered the client’s concern over disaster-induced Data Loss.
As one of the key outcomes of this engagement, the BLACKbox team understood the client requirements and configured the product as a tailored solution rather than a stiff product. This further assured the safety of invaluable digital assets and assisted with Data Loss Prevention, Data Leakage, or Data Theft, which can affect the client competitively.
Challenges Faced By The Client:
The client used to preserve his assets physically, and he was nervous when these physicals assets were disappearing as digital assets were coming around. He was worried about what if his digital assets are deleted or are left unusable by ransom-ware or are destroyed due to loss of hardware to a disaster.
So the client invested in File Server of very high quality and spent huge money on Microsoft Licensing. But he still faced data loss issues and even lost very critical drawings which could never be recovered. The client defaulted on the deadline and the reworked cost was significant. Though his company purchased a file server, his employees used to save data on their desktops only.
The client was worried about these multi-faceted problems and was not able to focus on his core business. His primary concern was related to data leakage, data loss prevention and data theft, which can negatively affect his current infrastructure as well as distress him on competitive grounds. The expensive firewall never protected the client’s data against possible theft or leakage by his internal employees. The employees could easily attach the client’s digital assets over email, could take it on a USB drive, or could simply upload on cloud storage and could further use it for unethical practices.
How BLACKbox Assisted the Client:
BLACKbox team understood the client requirements and configured the product as a tailored solution. The team implemented tight controls on USB, vigilance on Emails and Internet sessions of users, which has made it almost impossible to leak or steal data. BLACKbox even resolved the difficulty of storing large files over the network as the BLACKbox is already empowered by SSD caching and link aggregation, which enhances the user's experience while working on the network. Also, the BLACKbox product has evidence creation capability like screen capture, file operations logs, email despatch reports, BCC controls and Happy Hours data isolation, which helped in enabling the client.
BLACKbox also assisted the client with an active recycle bin, which can instantly recover deleted data. The vault and workspace helped resolve the client’s concern over the ransom-ware situation. Further, the data center disaster response solution answered his concern over disaster-induced Data Loss.
His issues related to de-duplication of data, setting up of user’s permissions as needed till the file levels as well as the reports on backup health and integrity were facilitated by the BLACKbox technology team. This assured the safety of invaluable digital assets and helped with Data Loss Prevention, Data Leakage, or Data Theft, which can affect the client competitively. It sensitized the client towards Non-Disclosure Agreements, and now the client is even not worried at all regarding any data related problems associated with his customer-base.
Solution Results:
Now with BLACKbox, the client can efficiently de-duplicate the required data. He can set up user permissions as he needs and gets access to all the reports with insights on backup health and integrity. This assured him of the safety of his invaluable digital assets and intellectual property. The client is fully satisfied and his concerns with data leakage, data loss prevention, data theft as well as ransom-ware related to his previous infrastructure are solved. He is even entirely confident towards signing Non-Disclosure Agreements with his customers without thinking over for any Data Leakage or Data Theft Prevention scenarios.
Words from the Client:
In my opinion, times have changed and Data Loss Prevention and Data Theft Prevention can decide your enterprise's survival index and competitive robustness. Buying IT components in bits and pieces won't really help to achieve these larger objectives of Data Loss and Theft Prevention. BLACKbox is a solution which achieves it for you and you are relieved of IT worries and can focus on your business. It works
