Authorization Built for Manufacturing

Protect intellectual property, secure global supply chains, and meet export compliance with policy-driven access control.

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Intellectual Property Protection

Safeguard trade secrets, R&D data, and product designs so only authorized engineers and partners can ever view or share them.

Export Control & Trade Compliance

Automate ITAR, EAR, and BAFA compliance with policies that enforce export restrictions before sensitive data ever leaves your walls.

Secure Supply Chain Collaboration

Extend consistent, auditable access policies to contractors, suppliers, and partners without ever slowing down collaboration.

Key Challenges

Protecting IP and Proving Compliance Grows Harder Every Year

Financially motivated actors drive 87% of manufacturing breaches (Verizon 2025 DBIR), making trade secrets and product data prime targets. Global operations, export regulations, and sprawling supply chains make consistent access control harder to maintain across every plant, partner, and system.

Static, role-based access can't stop IP theft once a user is already authorized to log in.
Complex export control regulations like ITAR and EAR are difficult to enforce consistently across a global workforce.
AI copilots and agents now touch product and shop-floor data, expanding the attack surface faster than manual reviews can track.

Why It Matters Now

Zero Trust and AI Adoption Make Dynamic Authorization Essential

As manufacturers digitize plants, connect IoT devices, and open R&D collaboration to external partners, the attack surface keeps expanding. Static roles and one-time provisioning can't keep pace with how fast projects, teams, and third-party relationships change.

AI copilots and agents are now touching product designs, supplier data, and shop-floor systems, raising the stakes for who, or what, can access sensitive information. Policy-driven authorization gives manufacturers the real-time, context-aware control Zero Trust demands.

Authorization Use Cases in Practice

IP & Product Protection

Control access to product designs, R&D data, and trade secrets based on role, project phase, and pre/post-launch timing, so sensitive innovation stays visible only to the people who need it, at the moment they need it.

Export Compliance

Automate ITAR, EAR, and BAFA enforcement with policies that evaluate user location, nationality, and clearance in real time, preventing restricted data from crossing borders or reaching unauthorized recipients before it happens

Separation of Duties

Enforce clear separation between conflicting actions, like design approval and procurement sign-off, so no single user can complete an entire high-risk process alone, reducing fraud and error across operations.

Location-based Access

Restrict access to plants, facilities, and systems based on approved physical or geographic locations, keeping sensitive operational and design data out of reach from high-risk regions or unmanaged devices.

Temporary Delegation

Grant time-bound, auditable access delegation for vacation coverage or acting-on-behalf scenarios, with automatic revocation once the need ends, eliminating the risk of forgotten or over-provisioned permissions.

AI Agent Governance

Extend the same fine-grained policies to AI copilots and agents touching product designs and shop-floor systems, so every AI-driven request is verified, logged, and auditable before it executes.

Information Barriers

Enforce strict separation between internal teams, business units, and partners so conflicts of interest never arise, keeping partner pricing, agreements, and competitive data out of reach from unrelated groups.

Data Masking & Redaction

Share product and operational data safely across teams and partners by exposing only the fields each user needs, masking sensitive specs, pricing, or supplier details without blocking collaboration.

Customer Success Stories

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Bell: Cutting through the Code to Meet Export Control Regulations

We explore how Bell reduced complexity and improved regulatory compliance by externalizing access control from application code.

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Efficient Enterprise-wide Risk Management and Secure Collaboration using ABAC

A major US automotive manufacturer was faced with a consolidation challenge for their authorization. They needed to move away from a home-grown solution.

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Where Axiomatics Makes the Difference

Protect Production. Enable Innovation.

Reduce cyber risk, automate export control and regulatory compliance, and simplify access management across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and connected production environments, all with centralized, policy-driven authorization.

Limit Attack Exposure

Fine-grained, context-aware policies limit what any single identity, human or AI, can reach, so a compromised account or credential can't expose your entire product catalog.

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Attribute-based access control adapts in real time to risk factors like location, device posture, and unusual user or agent behavior.
Approve access with built-in conditions, such as masking sensitive fields, requiring step-up authentication, or setting a strict time limit.
Detect anomalous access behavior automatically and trigger a response, from step-up checks to full access revocation, before damage is done.

Compliance on Demand

Generate detailed audit logs showing who accessed what, when, and why, so you can demonstrate ITAR, EAR, and BAFA compliance quickly during any audit, investigation, or regulatory review.

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Automate red-light, green-light export control decisions, based on location, nationality, and clearance, no manual review needed.
Maintain consolidated, audit-ready reporting across every system, showing who accessed what, when, and why for any audit or investigation.
Enforce Separation of Duties across approval workflows, so no single user can create, approve, and execute a high-risk transaction alone.

Efficient at Scale

Decouple access from your applications and manage policies centrally, cutting dev time, eliminating access control silos, and reducing cost as regulations and roles change..

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Remove authorization logic from application code entirely, so developers spend their time shipping features, not maintaining access rules.
Reduce role explosion by granting access based on attributes like project and clearance, instead of maintaining hundreds of custom roles.
Onboard new suppliers, partners, and customers by setting a few attributes, with no per-app role requests or IT tickets required.

“We’ve required 24x7 operation of the services it provides, and it’s been providing that without incident for years.”

Greg Hartsfield, Bell

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FAQs

How does policy-driven authorization support ITAR and EAR compliance?

Axiomatics policies evaluate user location, nationality, and clearance in real time, automatically blocking restricted data from crossing borders or reaching unauthorized recipients, so ITAR and EAR rules are enforced before a transfer happens, not after.

Can Axiomatics extend access control to supply chain partners?

Yes. Policies extend the same fine-grained access rules to contractors, suppliers, and partners, so external users only see the data relevant to their project or role, with full audit trails for every access decision.

Will fine-grained authorization slow down engineering workflows?

No. Policy decisions are evaluated in milliseconds and enforced at the application or API layer, so engineers keep working at normal speed while every request is still checked against the right context and conditions.

How does dynamic authorization reduce the risk of intellectual property theft?

By moving beyond static roles to attribute- and context-based policies, access to product designs and trade secrets is limited to the right people, at the right project phase, and revoked automatically when it's no longer needed.

Can policies control access for AI agents on the factory floor?

Yes. The same policy engine that governs human access can verify, log, and constrain AI agent and copilot requests, ensuring every AI-driven action on shop-floor or product systems is authorized and auditable.

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Take the Next Step in Securing Your Manufacturing Operations and Intellectual Property

Schedule a meeting with our experts to discover how the Axiomatics Authorization Management Platform helps manufacturers protect intellectual property, secure global supply chains, govern AI and connected systems, and enforce fine-grained, policy-driven access control to support Zero Trust and export control compliance.

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