Secure your CAD files. Protect your IP.
Prevent costly leaks.

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Secude’s automatic CAD file protection and digital watermarking software prevents costly IP data leaks and regulatory non-compliance without impeding digital workflows.

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IP protection and digital watermarking software for CAD files

The average cost of a data breach is $4.4M. But losing your IP is even more catastrophic — leading to lost reputation, competitiveness and contracts. 

Secude’s HaloCAD embeds Microsoft Purview protection and data governance into your CAD files’ application layer, encrypting CAD files from creation and securing your sensitive IP data even if files are leaked or stolen.

Secude’s HaloSHARE extends DLP classification, labelling and digital watermarking to shared project files (CAD, PDF and MS files), enhancing file security and traceability without slowing down digital supply chain workflows.

Protect IP in CAD files

Ensure that only designated users access and edit CAD files no matter where they travel, protecting them from unintentional leaks and misuse.

Enhance CAD file data governance

Track where files travel and who accesses them with lifelong sensitivity labeling and digital watermarking.


Prevent leaks and non-compliance

Protect your revenue and reputation from costly insider/external threats and use detailed monitoring to easily demonstrate compliance.

CAD file protection and digital watermarking software

HaloCAD

Protect valuable IP data with HaloCAD

HaloCAD automatically secures CAD files from the application layer, extending Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) to proprietary CAD file formats (i.e. Autodesk, Siemens, PTC, and Dassault etc).

HaloSHARE

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Watermark and track CAD, PDF and MS files with HaloSHARE

HaloSHARE secures and simplifies external collaboration with bulk file management, classification, labeling, encryption, annotation, and digital watermarking software.

The answer to your CAD file security and sharing challenges

HaloCAD provides encrypted CAD file protection — securing CAD files from creation and ensuring lifelong CAD file data classification and governance. 

HaloSHARE provides unencrypted CAD file security — adding digital watermarking to CAD files in bulk and ensuring lifelong traceability when shared externally. 

Check out our use cases.

Securing CAD files and protecting IP across industries

AECO

Secure shared files in your BIM/CDE environment without encryption.

Defense

Protect CUI and ensure CMMC/ITAR compliance.

Manufacturing

Protect your IP without slowing down engineering workflows.

What our customers say

“With HaloCAD, we've found a smart data security solution that is powerful, simple to deploy, and integrates with our existing security solutions.”

Multinational Systems Supplier

“Secude works seamlessly across all of our CAD applications and our different
business groups so that we can just configure labels in Microsoft Purview
and make them available to all of the engineers who do sensitive CUI drawings.”

Aerospace contractor

“Prior to HaloSHARE, it would take us days or weeks to mark the large quantity of documents we must share externally. Now we can mark those files in minutes.”

Global Engineering Group

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Secude protect files when shared externally or downloaded from a CDE?
Yes — Secude’s labelling and access controls exist for the lifetime of the file, preventing unauthorized access even if the files are lost or stolen.
Does Secude encrypt shared files?
With Secude, you can secure files using MPIP encryption or protect files without encryption using digital watermarking and signing. Secude also extends DLP rules to files shared in CDE environments that are not compatible with encryption.
Does Secude work with DLP?
Yes — Secude and DLP solutions work together at different stages of the security journey. While DLPs provide strong protection after data is stored, Secude provides Zero Trust protection before data is stored (as soon as it’s generated). Together, they enhance your digital supply chain security.
How does Secude differ from traditional DLP solutions?
Traditional DLP doesn't granularly protect complex file formats, such as CAD files — Secude does. In addition, DLPs only provide protection after data is stored. Secude provides protection before data is stored. By embedding Microsoft Purview protection and data governance into files at the application layer, Secude ensures there are no security gaps between data generation and storage.
How does Secude protect CAD files?
Secude’s HaloCAD embeds Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) into the CAD file’s application layer, enforcing access controls for the lifetime of the file - no matter where it travels.
What file types can Secude protect?
Secude protects a wide range of file formats, including CAD files, Microsoft Office files and PDFs. In particular, Secude automatically protects your most sensitive CAD drawings (i.e. containing your IP or classified as CUI) as soon as they’re generated.
Which industries does Secude support?
Secude’s products are particularly useful for industries that create and share sensitive CAD files across complex supply chains and multi-partner projects, such as AECO, Defense and Manufacturing.

Be Secure with Secude

Protect your IP. Protect your business.