AVX Corporation Case Study
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Netskope for Google G Suite
- Netskope for Web
- Netskope for IaaS
Tech Stack
- Google G Suite
- Google Drive
- Gmail
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Quality Assurance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
AVX Corporation is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control and antenna solutions. The company has 29 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries around the world. AVX is headquartered in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. Innovation, research, and development are crucial for safer, effective, and more reliable electronic components that AVX delivers to customers. With a focus on continued innovation, AVX uses the cloud to consistently exceed customer expectations. AVX is a Google Apps user, with employees adopting Google G Suite and services like Google Drive and Gmail to better collaborate, creating an environment that fosters innovation and delivers on their mission.
The Challenge
AVX Corporation, a leading international manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components, was facing several challenges. The company needed visibility and control over data in Google G Suite. They also needed to discover ShadowIT cloud services in the environment, demonstrate compliance with GDPR, and inspect and control cloud traffic even when it originates from a mobile device. As usage of G Suite grew within the company, an increasing amount of data was uploaded, and IT had little to no visibility or control of the data in the cloud. This data included client contracts, employee and customer information, intellectual property, and other confidential records. Prompted by the revelation that they needed a clear picture of risk exposure, information security professional Zack Moody sought a solution to help them discover and gain control over sensitive data across G Suite and to meet growing compliance requirements, including GDPR.
The Solution
Moody and his team brought in Netskope to serve as a central control point to enforce security, compliance, and governance policies consistently across G Suite, and in the future, extend this to include other cloud services. First, AVX had to understand their employees’ usage patterns and what data they had in the cloud. They used Netskope to uncover which cloud services users were accessing. With Netskope, they were able to view important contextual details around their usage — including users, devices, and activities — and assess their risk by identifying sensitive files in G Suite and seeing if and how they were being shared. They can easily monitor unsanctioned cloud services being used and can take action like blocking the activity or coaching their users to use G Suite instead. Using Netskope, they created several profiles for confidential documents and personally identifiable information (PII). Netskope discovered all of the content in G Suite against these profiles, identifying millions of files, thousands of which were a match for the content profiles they created.
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