Who we protect

Advanced R&D Laboratories

For laboratories protecting research IP, experimental data, and unpublished findings across complex instrument and vendor estates.

Operating profile

Dense vendor and instrument estates, mixed legacy and modern computing, long-retention datasets, and collaboration flows that cross institutional and national boundaries.

Sensitive assets

· Research IP and method disclosures
· Experimental datasets and instrument telemetry
· Unpublished findings and pre-print material
· Long-retention datasets subject to future cryptographic risk
· Vendor, instrument, and cloud-service dependencies

Primary concerns

· Protecting unpublished findings from premature disclosure or exfiltration
· Managing complex vendor and instrument dependencies and their update cadence
· Planning cryptographic transition for long-retention datasets
· Preserving chain of custody across shared facilities and collaborators
· Balancing openness of science with protection of sensitive dual-use material

How the overlay applies here

· Read-mostly by default; observation and evaluation without altering existing systems.
· Least-privilege access decisions with named human review at high-impact gates.
· Evidence written to a tamper-evident chain with rollback tokens where supported.
· Appropriate for legacy, cloud, hybrid, distributed, and field environments where supported.

What it is not