Protecting Your Intellectual Property (IP) in Product Development
MFT – Managed File Transfer

Product Development – Protecting Your Intellectual Property (IP)

| | Business Development Director, SEEBURGER

Product-DevelopmentTurn to any respected body for guidance on how to protect what’s rightfully yours, and the chances are the advice will all be about post-development, e.g. trademarks, copyrights and patents. These are all essential for protecting your finalised intellectual property (IP), but very little advice is offered for the protection of the data that’s exchanged digitally during the development phase – this is competitively advantageous IP in the making.

 

According to a recent report by the respected legal advice provider UpCounsel, “…the most prevalent method for physically removing data was removable media. Before 2005, writable CDs were the top type of media used in these crimes. In the modern era, devices such as removable USB drives and portable external hard disks are larger threats. These devices hold much more data than CDs, allowing thieves to steal an entire data set at once.”

Exchange data securely – without the risk of IP leakage

Physical media drives and USB / SATA ports etc. can be easily disabled on modern hardware to help mitigate against such data theft. However, ‘freemium’ file sharing services such as DropBox and Hightail etc. have become systemic, negating the need for physical media to potentially ‘lift & shift’ data. The challenge is in providing the vast majority of product developers who are bona fide with the capability to exchange data securely with their counterparts, without the risk of IP leakage.

The solution is to empower employees and their development partners with a piece of centrally governed technology called Managed File Transfer (MFT). This enables human-oriented data to be exchanged securely by offloading it from the e-mail server, and also system-oriented data to be exchanged by way of a modern secure protocol that isn’t 40+ years old and fraught with restrictions/problems.

Click here to learn more about how SEEBURGER can help you protect your IP during product development.

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Ian Goldsmith

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Ian Goldsmith is Business Development Director at SEEBURGER, a global market leader in business integration software. With ~25 years integration experience spanning development, consultancy management, pre-sales, solutions management, account management and marketing, he is well versed in understanding integration requirements of today (and tomorrow) from all angles. Ian, has utilised his industry and technical knowledge to brief Industry Analysts and ‘C’ level execs on numerous occasions, and has won awards along the way for outstanding work with clients.