Enterprise DLP for Engineering Firms: Forcepoint at Thermal Systems Hyderabad Pvt Ltd

At a glance
Client	Thermal Systems Hyderabad Pvt Ltd
Industry	Thermal engineering & manufacturing, Hyderabad, India
Solution	Forcepoint enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Delivered by	Cloud Armor IT Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.
Scope	Endpoint DLP, email and web channel control, removable-media governance

The challenge

An engineering company's crown jewels are its drawings. Thermal Systems' designs, customer specifications and costing data circulate daily between design teams, the shop floor and customers — and every one of those flows is also a potential leak path. Departing employees, personal cloud drives and unmanaged USB devices are the classic exfiltration routes in the engineering sector, and none of them require an attacker.

The mandate to Cloud Armor: get control of where design and commercial data can go, without interrupting an engineering workflow that lives in email attachments and CAD files.

What Cloud Armor delivered

• Data discovery across the engineering estate — identifying where design files, customer documents and commercial data actually resided before writing a single rule
• Forcepoint DLP deployment with policies fingerprinting design-document types and customer-specification formats
• Channel control across email, web uploads, removable media and print — the four routes engineering data actually leaves by
• Monitor-then-enforce rollout with false-positive tuning against live workflows, so enforcement arrived with the business's confidence rather than its resistance

The outcome

• Proprietary engineering IP governed by enforcing DLP policy on every managed endpoint
• Visibility the company never had before: who moves sensitive data, where, and through which channel
• A repeatable data-handling standard the company can show customers and auditors

Frequently asked

Does DLP slow down engineering work? Not when it is tuned properly. The Cloud Armor method is monitor-first: we measure false positives against real workflows and only expand blocking as precision is proven. Enforcement that breaks legitimate work gets switched off within a quarter — so we engineer it not to. Read more in our DLP implementation checklist.

Why Forcepoint here? Deep endpoint channel control and reliable document fingerprinting for design-file families — the two capabilities an engineering estate leans on hardest. See how we choose between Forcepoint and cloud-native Safetica per environment.

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Engineering or manufacturing firm with designs to protect? Talk to Cloud Armor's DLP engineers — we deploy and tune Forcepoint, Safetica, Netskope, Zscaler and Trellix across India, UAE and the US.