Protect Your Secret Sauce: Safeguard Critical IP in the Cloud
The Risk: Leveraging IP Creates Exposure
For manufacturers, intellectual property is everything. Formulas, patents, designs, and recipes are the secret sauce that fuel competitiveness. This critical data must flow through R&D teams, testing labs, and production lines to keep the business moving and thriving.
But in the cloud, this same accessibility that fuels innovation becomes a liability. Blueprints get duplicated in public OneDrives, recipes are stored in shared folders, and patents are over-permissioned to contractors or partners. A single accidental exposure can mean stolen IP, lost contracts, and potentially catastrophic business, financial, or reputational damage.
Security leaders need an accurate, efficient way to know exactly where intellectual property lives across their entire environment, who has access, and when and where it is copied or moved.
How Sentra Helps Security Teams Protect Critical IP
Sentra is built to transform how enterprises safeguard the data that matters most, at the speed and scale of modern cloud enterprises. The AI-powered platform automatically and continuously discovers, classifies, and protects both proprietary intellectual property and regulated customer data across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
- Automatically discovers and classifies critical data, finding intellectual property everywhere it lives, including patents, designs, CAD files, formulas, communications, images, audio, and video files.
- Alerts about over-exposed IP to enforce least-privilege access so only the right teams and partners can access sensitive files.
- Automatically apply DLP labels for consistent controls across Microsoft 365 Purview, Google Drive, and AWS resource tagging.
- Continuously monitor in real time when files containing IP are overshared or moved and
automatically detect similar sensitive data. - Securely adopt AI while preventing privacy and compliance violations and sensitive corporate data
leakage. - Reduce risk at scale with agentless scanning that avoids outages, API throttling, or compute spikes.
With Sentra, organizations can embrace cloud and AI with confidence; securing their most valuable IP assets without slowing down innovation or production.
Why Security Teams Choose Sentra to Stop Insider Threats Faster
- Detect and mitigate insider-driven data loss in real-time
- Block risky sharing and apply encryption in SaaS tools like Google Drive and Microsoft 365
- Gain continuous visibility across multi-cloud and SaaS with a cloud-native architecture
- Automate least-privilege access control for unstructured and sensitive data
- Prioritize threats using context-aware insights from identity, behavior, and sensitivity
- Enhance DLP tools like MicrosoftPurview to extend coverage and control
How an Aerospace Firm Secured Proprietary Designs
An aerospace manufacturer used Sentra to discover, classify and remediate exposure risk to proprietary data such as; patents, algorithms, and CAD designs across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Sentra quickly discovered duplicate blueprints in employee OneDrives and flagged overshared design files that could have leaked via collaboration. They also used Sentra to enforce their policy of masking all data stored on Snowflake by accurately identifying data as masked or unmasked. Finally, they created a ticketing workflow to automate and streamline remediation of urgent issues. The company cut exposed IP by over 80% in the first month. Deploying Sentra was simple and the scan quickly found exposed proprietary data, IP, and other critical data that if compromised or exfiltrated could cause catastrophic business, financial, or reputational damage.
More relevant Case Studies
Unifying Multi-Cloud Data Security with Sentra: How Valenz Health Scaled PHI Protection Post-Merger
Unifying Multi-Cloud Data Security with Sentra: How Valenz Health Scaled PHI Protection Post-Merger
The Challenge: Post-Merger Complexity Meets Cloud-Scale Risk
The merger of two healthcare entities brought together diverse teams, tools, and data security requirements. While both organizations were focused on strong privacy, security, and compliance, post-merger they sought an efficient way to centralize data security management across multiple cloud platforms and SaaS applications.
"Our merger brought together two companies with IT Infrastructure and Security teams, each with a large amount of data that everyone was now interested in understanding and securing. Sentra allowed us to quickly scan and analyze all of our cloud and SaaS data resources and present them in a single platform that each team could easily view and ingest as needed ."
— Kerry Knopp, VP, Cloud Operations, Valenz Health
Why Sentra: Unified, Automated, and Built for Healthcare
The healthcare provider selected Sentra’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform to unify and automate data security. Sentra was chosen because it delivers:
- Healthcare-aware classification to accurately identify and protect PHI
- Unified visibility across multiple cloud providers and SaaS applications
- Policy-based controls to enforce consistent governance and compliance
- Policy-based controls to enforce consistent governance and compliance
- Easy analysis of post-merger data with a unified view
Sentra’s ability to normalize security controls across disparate cloud systems, and its rapid integration with AI and data analytics platform, made it the clear choice.
Turning Insight Into Action
Deployment was fast and non-disruptive. The organization also extended Sentra’s protections to its content collaboration platforms and integrated security policies with its broader data analytics tools - ensuring consistent, HIPAA-aligned governance across the enterprise.
Real Business Impact: Compliance, Clarity, and Confidence
By partnering with Sentra, Valenz Health transformed data security into proactive AI-powered governance at scale to secure data without overburdening security teams.
Securing Petabytes at Scale: How a Global Travel Platform Gained Control of Its Cloud Data in Just 30 Days
Securing Petabytes at Scale: How a Global Travel Platform Gained Control of Its Cloud Data in Just 30 Days
In an industry where speed, data, and customer trust intersect, one of the world’s top travel technology companies found itself at a critical inflection point. With hundreds of petabytes of sensitive data dispersed across more than 600 AWS accounts, their security team lacked the visibility and control required to manage risk at scale.
Traditional DLP tools weren’t built for today’s multi-cloud reality—they offered limited insights and reactive alerts. Manual data tagging was slow and error-prone. As compliance demands grew and insider threats became more complex, the organization needed a new approach.
That’s where Sentra came in.
By adopting Sentra’s Cloud-native Data Security (DSPM) platform, the company gained visibility into its sprawling data estate in just 30 days, compared to other solutions that take an entire year to fully implement. Sentra replaced manual tagging with AI-powered classification, and built a scalable framework for enforcing security policies. The result: enhanced risk posture, reduced manual effort, and a powerful partnership built on rapid innovation and enterprise-scale performance.
The Challenge: Lack of Cloud Data Visibility and Control
Before Sentra, the company’s data security strategy relied heavily on legacy DLP solutions that only flagged data after it left the environment—far too late to prevent exposure. This reactive approach created dangerous blind spots in environments where data was constantly moving. Manual tagging compounded the problem. It was resource-intensive, inconsistent across teams, and prone to human error. With more than 600 AWS accounts and hundreds of petabytes of data, the organization had no reliable way to understand what data existed, where it lived, or how it was being accessed. And while their cloud footprint had grown rapidly, their ability to govern data hadn’t kept pace. Sensitive customer data was increasingly at risk of accidental exposure, misconfiguration, and noncompliance.
"The partnership has been really strong... we get custom features developed very quickly."
— Security Engineering Manager, Global Travel Platform
Why Sentra: Scalable, Accurate, and Fast-Moving
After evaluating a broad mix of DLP and DSMP vendors the company chose Sentra for its unmatched combination of scale, classification accuracy, and flexibility. Agentless discovery was key. Sentra’s ability to scan vast, complex environments without requiring agents allowed for faster, broader deployment across the company’s entire AWS footprint.
Why Sentra: Scalable, Accurate, and Fast-Moving
Automated classification replaced slow, error-prone manual tagging with accurate, AI-driven sensitivity labels that helped teams enforce access controls with confidence. Scalability ensured fast time to value as Sentra efficiently handled hundreds of petabytes across hundreds of accounts—something many competitors couldn’t match. But what truly set Sentra apart was the partnership.
“The Sentra speed and support really stood out. We were able to quickly transform our approach to data security from reactive alerts to proactive discovery. We're not just detecting potential risks anymore; we're gaining a comprehensive inventory of our data landscape across hundreds of petabytes, enabling us to truly understand and protect our most critical assets.”
— Security Engineering Manager, Global Travel Platform
Implementation: Tackling Scale and Complexity Head-On
The implementation targeted 600 AWS accounts, 170,000 data stores, and over 28,000 target S3 buckets, involving coordination across six internal stakeholder teams. The environment’s complexity presented early challenges, including performance challenges related to scanning large, complex datasets that significantly expanded during processing. Sentra’s engineering team worked closely with the customer to resolve the technical bottlenecks, tuning the system for high-memory formats and refining scanning cycles.
Deployment was completed on schedule, with phased implementation continuing as classification efforts expanded. Beyond scanning, Sentra helped identify unknown sensitive data exposures, cut down on manual tagging errors, and provided the foundation for a policy-based approach to least privilege and access control.
Real Business Impact: Visibility, Compliance, and Control
Within months, the company achieved what had eluded them for years - true visibility into their data estate. With automated classification and context-aware enforcement, the security team could now respond proactively to risk and reduce operational overhead.
Key outcomes:
- Discovery of sensitive data that had previously gone unnoticed
- Streamlined governance across 600+ AWS accounts
- Accurate classification reduces false positives and alert fatigue
- Improved compliance streamlined ability to meet PCI DSS and GDPR requirements
Sentra enabled the travel tech company to quickly discover previously unknown sensitive data, improve data classification accuracy, and provide comprehensive visibility across their multi-cloud environment, ultimately enhancing their data security posture and compliance capabilities. As the evaluation concluded, the global travel tech giant engaged in a multi-year DSPM agreement with Sentra.
Sentra for Travel Tech: Setting the Pace for Scalable, Intelligent Data Protection
By adopting Sentra’s cloud-native Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform, this global travel technology leader gained real-time visibility into its massive, fast-moving data estate spanning hundreds of AWS accounts and petabytes of sensitive data including unique data types like booking and flight information, in addition to PCI/PII. Manual tagging gave way to AI-powered classification, enabling precise, automated enforcement of data security policies at scale.
In doing so, the company replaced reactive alerts with proactive governance and transformed data security from a compliance bottleneck into a strategic advantage. In an industry where agility, trust, and innovation are everything, Sentra has empowered this travel tech giant to protect what matters
most - without losing speed.
