Roadmaps, specifications and product images
Roadmaps, specifications and launch plans circulate as documents and presentations, with product photographs, renderings and demonstration videos beside them.
Watermarking for technology and manufacturing
Technology companies and manufacturers share roadmaps, specifications and unannounced products with their own teams and with a chain of suppliers and partners. Invisproof issues each recipient an individual copy with an invisible watermark, so that material found outside its intended audience can be identified.
Product information and its recipients
Teams, suppliers and partners
The material is read by product, engineering and sales teams, and by component suppliers, contract manufacturers, channel partners and agencies.
The period before an announcement
A product's features, price and date are confidential until its announcement, and the supply chain learns of them months in advance.
An individual copy across the supply chain
Invisproof issues every recipient inside and outside the company a copy of their own, and nothing is installed on any device.
The process for product information
Watermark
The Document Engine and the Media Engine prepare an individual copy of each document, image and video for every team member, supplier and partner.
Distribute
Employees sign in through the company's identity provider, and suppliers and partners open their copies with a passcode or a one-time code sent by email.
Identify
If details of an unannounced product are found outside their intended audience, an investigation compares the material with the copies issued and identifies the copy it came from.
Product work in which it is used
Roadmaps and plans are shared widely inside a company and with selected partners.
- Roadmaps and planning presentations
- An individual copy for each team member
- Sign-in through the company's identity provider
Specifications reach component suppliers and contract manufacturers long before a product is announced.
- Specifications and product photographs
- A separate copy for each supplier
- No account needed to open a file
Launch material is prepared with agencies, partners and the press.
- Launch plans, images and films
- A copy for each agency and partner
- Material held until the announcement
Technical documents are shared with partners and prospective customers under confidentiality agreements.
- Technical papers and proposals
- Copies for each partner's named readers
- Reading in the secure viewer where required
Controls for a technology company
Files opened in the browser
A file is opened in the secure viewer in a browser, with nothing to download and nothing to install. The organization decides which files are opened only in this way.
Copies in the original format
Where the organization permits it, a recipient saves a copy in its original format. The copy opens in the usual applications, can be viewed offline and keeps its watermark.
Recipients inside and outside
Members of the organization sign in with their accounts. Recipients outside it need no account, and open a file with a passcode or a one-time code sent to their email address.
Investigation of a found copy
A file found outside its intended audience is submitted for investigation, which compares it with the copies issued and states the probability that it came from a given copy.
- Nothing to download
- Nothing to install
- Decided file by file
- Original format
- Usual applications
- Offline viewing
- Watermark retained
- Sign-in for members
- Passcode
- One-time code by email
- No account for outside recipients
- Any found file submitted
- Compared with the copies issued
- Probability stated
- Decision left to the organization
What a technology company gains
Roadmaps and launch plans can be given to the teams and partners who must act on them. Because each copy remains accountable, a wide audience is less of a concern than it would otherwise be.
When details of a product appear before its announcement, an investigation of the found material identifies the copy it came from.
A finding concerns one copy. Employees and suppliers who handled their own copies properly are not made the subject of a general inquiry.
Questions from technology companies
How is a whole company brought onto the service?
An administrator adds members in a batch, or lets them join as they sign in through the company's identity provider. Nothing is installed on any device.
How do employees sign in?
Employees sign in through the identity provider the company already uses, and a second factor is required by default.
Do suppliers need an account?
No. Recipients outside the company open a file with a passcode or with a one-time code sent to their email address.
Does Invisproof replace data loss prevention?
No. Data loss prevention is concerned with material leaving the network without permission. Invisproof is concerned with what was shared with permission, which it issues as individual copies and can later identify.
Related use cases and solutions
Research and product development
Specifications, designs and findings, issued as an individual copy to each team and supplier while a product is confidential.
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Source identification
A file found outside its intended audience, compared with the copies that were issued and matched to the copy it came from.
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Pre-release film, music and artwork
Screeners, mixes and stills, issued as an individual copy to each reviewer, partner and distributor before release.
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Media and entertainment
Scripts, cuts, masters and artwork, issued by studios, labels and publishers as an individual copy to each recipient.
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