Fugro Survey (India) is in the field of marine survey,
geotechnical investigation and geoscience services. The company
prepares survey reports for infrastructure and oil and gas firms
like ONGC.
To carry out these surveys, Fugro requires expert people and
machines, which are quite expensive. The survey reports collected
after investing enough time, money and effort are obviously very
crucial for the company. Thus, when these crucial reports were
leaked to competitors, the company suffered major business
setbacks. The competitors used to take advantage of the leaked
reports and get contracts from the clients Fugro was targeting.
“Our competitors have not invested anything but with our
reports they used to easily bargain with the end customers and get
contracts. Thus, due to this leakage of reports we started losing
business,” Bibhu Nayak, Head Business Line, Fugro Survey
(India).
Our competitors have not invested anything but with our
reports they used to easily bargain with the end customers and get
contracts. Thus, due to this leakage of reports we started losing
business
Bibhu Nayak, Head Business Line, Fugro Survey (India)
To prevent the leaking of reports, Fugro adopted certain
security measures such as password protection, blocking of USB
drives etc. But all these techniques failed.
To counter these challenges, Fugro bought Seclore’s
Filesecure to prevent the leakage of documents and reports by
restricting unauthorized viewing, copying and distribution.
“For us loss of reports means loss of business. Thus, we
wanted to keep these files protected till we receive payments for
the efforts we have invested on making the reports. By protecting
the leakage of the reports, Seclore Filesecure has solved about 95
percent of our security threats and had also helped us gain a
competitive edge,” said Nayak.
Remote control of designs
The survey reports are in the form of AutoCAD drawings and at
least once a year the survey company needs to upgrade the AutoCAD
version. According to Fugro, most of the security software for
securing the files do not protect the versions of AutoCAD. On the
other hand, Seclore not only protects the versions of AutoCAD, but
also ensures that there is no change in user experience. At Fugro,
the Filesecure solution supports most of the files such as AutoCAD,
MS Office, PDFs, raw data files etc.
The AutoCAD connectors are delivered at Fugro in phases. The
last delivery was completed in March 2011. And the design drawings
at Fugro are controlled granularly by five Seclore administrators
for usage actions like view, edit, print, etc. The designs are also
controlled based on time and remotely destroyed at the end of the
collaboration activity.
The security solution implemented by Fugro helps the company to
prevent the leakage of reports and helps it to get payments before
they hand over the drawings to the clients.
After looking at the benefits of this particular security solution,
the group companies of Fugro Survey (India) are also planning to
adopt it.