How tamper protects critical contract assets for a leading retail security hardware manufacturer.

Current Solutions, Challenges and Expected Outcomes:

Our client is a French manufacturer of safes, security doors, and other security equipment. To retain its business, administrative, and contractual data, it uses AWS S3 for its high availability and reputation as a trusted provider. The stored data includes technical drawings, design schematics for locking mechanisms, and sensitive contractual documentation.

Integration between S3 and Veeam enables daily bidirectional backups between on-premises file servers and the cloud, ensuring business continuity in the event of a disaster. However, the company faces a paradox: it designs physical security solutions to protect its customers' most valuable assets, including banks, cash-in-transit operators, and duty-free port facilities, yet its own digital intellectual property lacked an equivalent level of visibility and traceability.

The main challenge for our client was detecting targeted threats: detailed safe blueprints falling into the wrong hands could enable sophisticated attacks against its customers.

Its list of sensitive customers is also a prime target for planning robberies. The organization was looking for a solution capable of instantly detecting any suspicious modification or deletion.

Why tamper Was Chosen?

tamper was selected over an American alternative for its ability to secure the company's digital assets to the same exacting standards applied to its physical safes.

Real-time detection of suspicious operations, such as bulk downloads of technical drawings or unauthorized modifications to mechanical schematics, provides a layer of protection equivalent to the company's physical alarm systems.

Hash comparisons to detect known Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) provide a safeguard against malware targeting the company's industry. AWS S3 configuration scoring revealed critical weaknesses, including missing MFA on certain access points and disabled versioning on strategic buckets, delivering an immediate return on investment.

Native integration with the company's Jira instance enables the automation of technical change approval workflows, formally tracking every design revision.

How tamper Operates Day to Day?

tamper audits the bucket containing the company's intellectual property daily, covering approximately 5 TB of technical drawings, mechanical schematics, and contractual documentation.

Modifications to CAD files automatically trigger a Jira workflow requiring approval from the engineering design office manager, preventing undocumented changes.

Reporting dashboards give management a comprehensive overview of the health of its intellectual property assets, proactively identifying areas of risk, including unversioned files and overexposed buckets.

Why Do They Recommend tamper?

The manufacturer recommends tamper as a safeguard for digital sovereignty. FIM's ability to comprehensively track every operation transforms AWS S3 from simple storage into an auditable digital vault, aligning the protection of digital assets with the company's expertise in physical security.

The DSPM approach provides continuous visibility into the cloud security posture, proactively identifying vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

The investment in tamper paid for itself in less than six months through reduced security audit costs and the avoidance of a major incident.