Jabil Gains Business Wide Data Visibility 
and IP Protection in less than 120 Days

Critical Success Factors 

• Identify and locate critical IP as defined by each business unit and its customers 
• Increase visibility on data movement in the context of user, location and application
• Apply new protection controls across autonomous regional operations 
• Implement a tiered control set ranging from a baseline security to higher, more restrictive levels
• Rely on security experts to administer data protection, freeing the internal team to focus on data governance

The Solution

Fortra™’s Digital Guardian® ’s Managed Service Program (MSP) was the clear choice, completing deployment in under three months; no other vendor gave quicker time-to-value. MSP would free Jabil to focus on better data governance while leaving 24/7 global program administration to Digital Guardian. 

Jabil had prior success with cloud services and already deployed managed services handling web proxy and single sign-on programs, so there was familiarity with workflows. Jabil understood that its data protection approach should pivot to securing endpoints, not the perimeter. Digital Guardian increases visibility on data movement with deep contextual awareness. 

At Jabil, intellectual property is defined as anything that the individual customer wants protected. Each Jabil business unit was given the ability to classify IP by the way they worked with it, where stored, who had access to it, and applications used. A set of tiered controls define a baseline security level that meets corporate policies as well as higher levels for employees dealing with more sensitive data. Log data on violations is collected and filtered on metadata to protect employee privacy. 

After a successful test deployment of 3,000 agents, Jabil deployed 49,000 agents worldwide – in less than 90 days from initial engagement with Digital Guardian.