Protect CAD Designs Across Any Application with NextLabs Data-Centric Security
NextLabs SkyDRM delivers real-time, persistent data protection directly inside your CAD applications. Using NextLabs’s patented attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy platform, organizations can enforce consistent protection across on-premises and cloud environments without changing existing applications or workflows. Through a Rights Management Extension (RMX), authorized users open, view, import, export, and modify protected files natively within each CAD application.
SkyDRM helps organizations secure sensitive design data, support regulatory compliance, and enable trusted collaboration by applying controls such as
- Classification and right protection
- Persistent control of access and usage of digital informationÂ
- Dynamic watermarking
- Anti-screen capture
- Centralized visibility and auditing
Why Use SkyDRM for CAD?
- Consistent Protection: Apply the same rights policies across every CAD application and file type, inside and outside the enterprise.
- Real-Time Decisions: Evaluate every access request using user, data, and environment attributes to enforce least-privileged access.
- Persistent Protection: Encryption and usage rights travel with the file wherever it goes – at rest, in transit, in use, in the cloud, or on the move.
- Native Experience: Authorized users work with protected files directly inside their CAD application, with no change to their workflow.
- Compliance & Audit: Centralize monitoring, reporting, and policy governance across all protected design data.
SkyDRM for CAD Products
Extends rights protection into CATIA’s native environment, letting authorized users open, view, export, and modify protected files without leaving the application, while keeping JT Dispatch and Teamcenter Client Communication System (TCCS) workflows working on protected files.Â
Enforces fine-grained, command-level control over AutoCAD drawings – governing edit, print, export, clipboard copy, and screen capture – with integration into both Teamcenter and PorjectWise.
Protects Creo design data across the product development lifecycle, enforcing rights natively within the application and integration with Teamcenter through Teamcenter IPEM (Teamcenter Integration for PTC Creo)
Keeps protection bound to Solid Edge files as they move through the product development process, from initial design to manufacturing, enforcing access, usage, and anti-screen capture controls natively within the application.
Ensures persistent protection follows Inventor mechanical designs wherever they are shared beyond the enterprise, with rights enforced natively inside the application.
Common Capabilities Across All CAD Applications
- Classification and rights protection: Classify and protect files, and view classifications and permissions, directly within the CAD application.
- Access control: Allow only authorized users to open protected files.
- Usage control: Enforce granted permissions to control commands such as edit, save as, import, export, print, and screen capture.
- Persistent protection: Automatically protect new files generated from a protected file, transferring the source file’s metadata to the target.
- Dynamic watermarking: Display a secure overlay with policy-configured watermark text when a protected file is opened.
- Anti-screen capture: Prevent design screens from being captured by screenshot tools or shared through video communication software without proper rights.
- Centralized visibility: Monitor and report on data use from a single platform for full visibility and simplified compliance.
- PLM and design-tool integration: Extend protection into connected PLM and collaboration systems (such as Teamcenter and ProjectWise) – see each product datasheet for supported integrations.
Deploy to Keep Your CAD Files Safe and Secure
Whichever CAD applications your organization uses, NextLabs SkyDRM provides a consistent Zero Trust data protection layer that secures sensitive design data wherever it resides and wherever it travels – enabling trusted collaboration across the extended enterprise.
