SearchInform Information Security Perimeter for Avtokomponent Group of Companies

About company. Avtokomponent Group of Companies is the Russian leader in the development and production of plastic parts. The first enterprise of the group was established in 1999. The number of employees is 2,090 people. Avtokomponent Group of Companies is a supplier of AvtoVAZ, GAZ Group, Renault, Volkswagen. Challenge. The company recognized the need to improve existing cyber defense against insider risks. In choosing a DLP system, Avtokomponent Group of Companies proceeded from several tasks.
The main one -  to protect confidential information from leaks: know-how, shipping schedules, pricing conditions. It was necessary to protect this data from internal threats.

Another important condition was the ability of the program to work on a large number of Avtocomponent's machines.

“We tested the systems for a month, deployed them on a large number of machines to see how they show themselves on PCs of different capacities and with different OS. Programs showed different results, testing of some DLP systems had to be stopped ahead of schedule, because they overloaded the server and user workstations, which impeded business processes. Though there was no such problem with DLP Information Security Perimeter”

Alexey Borisov, Senior Information Security Specialist, Directorate for Economics and Finance, Avtocomponent

Implementation. The purchase decision was made after testing several domestic-developed DLP systems: Guarda Technologies, Staffcop, Infowatch and SearchInform. As a result, security department specialists and company management made a choice in favor of SearchInform.

The company notes that the decisive factors were the technical characteristics of the program and its analytical capabilities. The system is easy to deploy on a large IT infrastructure, it allows you to receive comprehensive information for investigating and preventing incidents, and is convenient to use.

Also Avtokomponent noted the speed of the vendor's response to the needs of a potential client. Even at the testing stage, the developers promptly made changes that made it possible to optimize the data transfer algorithms, adapting them to the applied tasks of Avtokomponent Group of Companies.

 “At the request of individual customers, we are making changes that expand the capabilities of the software. This strategy allows not only to earn a credit of trust from customers, but also to continuously improve our software. In the case of Avtokomponent Group of Companies, we have optimized algorithms for transmitting data over channels, which has proved useful for the rest of our customers

Head of Analytics at SearchInform, Alexey Parfentiev

At the first stage, the company introduced modules for monitoring user activity at computers. In addition to identifying dangerous or erroneous actions of employees, the application of  SearchInform will allow to see how the load is distributed across the team, and whether the wage fund is effectively spent.

Results. With the deployment from SearchInform, Avtokomponent Group secured its own confidential information from leaks, got the opportunity to monitor employee activity, and further intends to increase the implementation of the SearchInform DLP system.