Target Market

Target Market

GUD Content-Centric Security (CCS) supports manufacturers in highly-regulated industries, such as the aerospace, pharmaceutical, automotive, and medical devices sectors. Companies in these spaces face increasingly strong regulatory, customer, and internal demands to enforce and authenticate product integrity. Expanding use of global supply chains creates significant information assurance risks for data and processes supporting the manufacture and distribution of high-value assets. Companies have tremendous exposure when their products fail and they are unable to defend their business process and compliance rules for certification of parts, personnel, and processes.

The Department of Defense estimates that there are 1.1 billion exchange participants in the Global Information Grid. Though over $50 billion has been spent on IT security, up from $20 billion in 2003, the cost of attacks has risen to over $9 million per breach for highly-regulated industries. (The cost of an attack on an unregulated industry averages $2.7 million per breach.)

CCS greatly simplifies gathering, maintaining and authenticating the increasingly detailed information needed to ensure and document product quality. CCS enables supply chain unification by efficiently and comprehensively authenticating events throughout the product life-cycle while securely protecting privacy.