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Protecting Operational and Engineering Data for Transportation Organizations
Transportation organizations operate highly complex networks supporting millions of passengers, cargo operations, and multimodal infrastructure projects, while coordinating with contractors, vendors, and external partners. Sensitive engineering designs, project plans, construction documents, and operational data are constantly shared across multiple systems and collaborators, creating significant risks of data leakage, mishandling, or unauthorized access. These gaps can delay multimillion-dollar projects, disrupt transit operations, compromise safety and reliability, undermine regulatory compliance, and threaten public trust and funding for critical infrastructure initiatives.
Traditional security measures such as firewalls, VPNs, and manual access controls, are no longer sufficient in environments where sensitive files move across distributed teams, external partners, and collaboration platforms like CAD and engineering applications. A Zero Trust, data-centric security approach is essential, enforcing attribute-based access, least-privilege authorization, and persistent file protection. With this approach, Transportation organizations can safeguard sensitive information while maintaining efficient, reliable, and safe operations, ensuring project continuity, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder confidence.
Featured Transportation Customers
Discover how leading transportation organizations protect sensitive engineering and operational data, maintain compliance with industry regulations, and enable secure collaboration across transit networks, contractors, and partner organizations.
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
The New York MTA faced rising risks of data leakage and mishandling as millions of engineering, construction, and project files were shared with external partners, vendors, and suppliers through CAD and engineering collaboration applications. To balance the need to share with the need to protect, the MTA implemented NextLabs’ SkyDRM integrated with Bentley ProjectWise, MicroStation, and AutoCAD, providing persistent file protection, dynamic authorization, attribute-based access control (ABAC), and Zero Trust policy enforcement across the extended enterprise. Authorized users can view and edit protected files natively in CAD applications without disrupting workflows, while the MTA maintains consistent control over project data, enables secure collaboration, accelerates bidding and project processes, and gains full visibility and auditing to support compliance and safeguard reputation for critical infrastructure projects.
Delivering Value with Zero Trust Data-Centric Security for Transportation Organizations
Transportation organization rely on NextLabs’ Zero Trust Data-Centric Security to protect sensitive engineering and operational data, maintain regulatory compliance, and enable secure collaboration across transit projects, contractors, and partner organizations. Key benefits include:
Uses Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and dynamic authorization to make real-time, context-aware decisions based on user roles, project phases, or file type, providing granular control across internal teams, contractors, and partner networks
Protects sensitive projects and operational data, enforcing least-privileged access and closing security gaps across distributed transit projects and multi-vendor environments.
Enables consistent enforcement and monitoring of access policies across collaboration platforms, CAD applications, and enterprise systems, reducing gaps and preventing unauthorized data sharing.
Evaluates access requests at the moment of use, adapting dynamically to changes in user attributes, project context, or environmental conditions, preventing delays or compromises in construction and operational workflows.
Enables persistent file protection through DRM, using attribute-based policies to dynamically grant or restrict actions such as viewing, editing, copying, forwarding, printing, and content extraction based on the recipient’s identity and access context, even when files are shared externally.
- Streamlined Compliance and Auditing
Provides full visibility and automated oversight across project files and operational data, with alerts on anomalies, helping transportation agencies meet industry safety standards and regulatory requirements.
- Accelerated Project Collaboration
Eliminates manual monitoring, enabling secure sharing of sensitive files with contractors, vendors, and project partners to support faster bidding, project delivery, and operational continuity.
