Insider Risk
for Export-Controlled Technical Data
A defense prime contractor holding highly sensitive programme data partnered with We As Web to secure its digital estate — implementing data discovery, classification-based DLP, and insider-threat detection while producing audit-ready compliance documentation against ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST SP 800-171.
Discuss Your Project →A defense prime operating blind to where its most sensitive data lived
A defense prime contractor holding highly sensitive programme data — including design files, technical documentation, and export-controlled materials — partnered with We As Web to secure its digital estate. In the defense sector, the exfiltration of controlled technical data is a defining risk, carrying severe espionage, competitive, and regulatory consequences. To protect this critical intellectual property, the client needed to gain full visibility over their data and lock down vulnerabilities before they could be exploited.
What prompted the project
To safeguard their most sensitive assets, the defense prime needed to move from "we hope it's secure" to "we can prove it" — with controls proportionate to data sensitivity.
Prevent Data Exfiltration
Radically reduce the risk of technical data leaving the organization through malicious insiders, careless third parties, or compromised endpoints.
Ensure Strict Regulatory Compliance
Tightly control data that falls under the EU Dual-Use Regulation (EU) 2021/821 and, where US-origin technology is involved, ITAR / EAR regulations.
Prove Security Posture
Produce concrete evidence of security controls to satisfy regulators, auditors, and prime-contractor security reviews.
Why an expert partner was required
The initiative faced several major hurdles — most fundamentally, the client had no map of its own data to defend.
What We As Web delivered
We As Web delivered a comprehensive data protection and insider-threat mitigation program — anchored in a real map of where sensitive data actually lived.
Data Discovery and Classification
Endpoint-wide inventory and classification of sensitive data using Tanium — so controls could be applied based on sensitivity rather than uniformly.
Targeted DLP and Access Controls
DLP controls and role-based access for the most sensitive material — proportionate, not blunt.
Automated Export-Control Handling
Handling rules built directly into the policy set — any movement of EU Dual-Use or ITAR/EAR data triggers the right controls automatically.
Insider-Threat Detection
Detection mechanisms for the behaviors that typically precede data loss, paired with a compliant investigation process.
From blind to audit-ready in a single program
The data protection program successfully transformed the client's security posture — across visibility, controls, and compliance evidence.
The client received its first authoritative map of where sensitive and export-controlled technical data resided across endpoints and engineering systems.
By calibrating DLP and access controls to data classification, the organization successfully constrained risky egress channels without applying blunt, productivity-killing blocks.
The handling of regulated technical data became governed strictly by automated policy, completely removing the reliance on individual employee judgment.
The new detection protocols allowed the organization to spot the access and egress behaviors that precede data loss before exfiltration occurs.
Defense-grade insider risk and data protection
A stack chosen for defense contexts — Tanium for estate-wide endpoint visibility, DLP tooling, and a policy layer aligned to the relevant regulatory frameworks.
When data sovereignty is mission-critical
A defense prime holding export-controlled technical data cannot rely on hope. By building an authoritative map of where sensitive data lived, applying classification-based DLP, and detecting the behaviors that precede exfiltration, we transformed this client from operating blind to operating with documented, auditable controls.
The entire program was built against ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST SP 800-171, producing the exact evidence needed to present to regulators, prime-contractor security reviews, and internal stakeholders. For any organization holding sensitive technical data under export-control frameworks, this is what proportionate, audit-ready data protection looks like.