Case Study
Toyota
“The implementation of the Forcepoint solution
was very simple and has reduced the risk of
information being accidentally released to zero.”
— Andrea Cappelloni, IT Manager, Toyota Motor Italia S.P.A
OVERVIEW
Toyota Motor Corporation, based in Japan, is one of the world’s largest
automotive manufacturers. In 2014, the multinational corporation
employed over 338,000 individuals worldwide and, as of November
2014, was the 11th-largest revenue generating company in the world.
In 1990, Toyota Motor Italia S.P.A was created as a direct subsidiary of
the Toyota Motor Corporation. Since it opened its doors, the company
has seen nothing but exponential growth, becoming the best-selling
Japanese car brand in Italy with more than 1.7 million vehicles sold.
The company is headquartered in Rome, with approximately 230 sales
and service points throughout the country.
The customer will always be the focus of Toyota’s business model so
as to guide its research and development on the principle of Human
Innovation: In addition to the revolution of the hybrid vehicle, the most
recent example of attention to the protection of the customer is the
development of the Toyota Safety Sense, a new set of technologies
designed to prevent and reduce collisions.
Toyota continues to demonstrate extraordinary innovation,
revolutionizing the automotive industry. This level of global attention
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INDUSTRY
Vehicle Manufacturing
COUNTRY
Italy
PRODUCT TYPE
Forcepoint Web and Email
Security & Forcepoint DLP
SIZE
400 users
SECURITY ISSUE
Protecting a Mobile Workforce
attracts high-level threats to its most crucial intellectual property
and sensitive data. Knowing its current threat potential, Toyota
Italia began a project focused on three different areas: Internet
management, device and data control, and log management.
CHALLENGE
In today’s rapidly changing technological landscape, assets now
include highly sensitive, confidential data. Information is being
stored and retrieved on a variety of devices such as laptops,
smartphones, and tablets for users on or off the corporate
network. Protecting this information effectively, consistently, and
in compliance with industry and government regulations is an
increasingly difficult and costly challenge as the average total cost
of a data breach is $3.8 million.
“The wealth of information at Toyota, including intellectual
property and other sensitive data, is essential to our business.
Our innovative projects are crucial to further our growth, which
means, protection of these resources is absolutely necessary.”
— Cappelloni
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Andrea and the IT Department at Toyota recently reviewed their overall
security posture to identify all possible points of weakness leading
to leakage of sensitive information in an unauthorized manner. Their
conclusion was clear: In order to efficiently monitor and block the
transfer of company data while preventing data loss and data theft,
Toyota needed the unique benefits of a unified security solution.
SOLUTION
“Through this solution we activated a series of logs, such as a
‘Network Printing Log’ — all documents sent to network printers
are logged with the ability to retrieve a printed attachment.”
— Cappelloni
Finally, Forcepoint enabled Toyota to easily apply and manage the
same policies to its mobile workforce as those on the corporate

After a series of meetings, demos network. This allows the company to remain fully productive while
operating remotely on the road or after hours and provides an
and workshops organized by various enhanced level of protection.

vendors, Toyota found the Forcepoint “We use Forcepoint to protect employees from the latest
solution ideally suited to respond to its cyber-attacks thanks to real-time protection. Additionally, the

most crucial data security needs while protection extends to workers remotely, saving the time it would
take to return to the office in case their computers were infected.”
coordinating inbound and outbound
defenses across web and email channels. — Cappelloni

RESULTS
From inbound attack activity to outbound data loss, TRITON
Toyota uses Forcepoint solutions to ensure that the implementation of
Architecture protects web and email communications against
corporate policies reaches all employees, on all devices, even if they
advanced threats across the entire kill chain. As a result of
are working outside the network. Forcepoint allows Toyota employees
implementing the Forcepoint solution, Toyota has been able to block
to enjoy the same level of real-time security from advanced threats,
malicious attachments and downloads, protect against sensitive data
on and off the network. Furthermore, the company is now able to
loss through web uploads and email, and apply additional controls
control unauthorized platforms such as private mailboxes. Lastly, the
for designated channels not authorized by the company — such as an
Forcepoint solution allows Toyota to control all use or movement of
employee’s private email. In addition, TRITON Architecture provides
critical or sensitive data.
employee education of threat awareness. When attempting to access
high-risk content online, as well as sharing “deactivated” phishing
“The implementation of the Forcepoint solution was very simple
emails with the intended recipients, users get real-time exposure to
and has reduced the risk of information being accidentally
how threats work through on-screen notifications.
released to zero. Forcepoint provides us with the tools
necessary to defend against advanced threats.”
In addition to the data-in-motion defenses for web and email,
Forcepoint Security allows the IT department at Toyota to control data-
— Cappelloni
in-use and data-at-rest on endpoints. All copies of data and documents
transferred to USB devices are automatically encrypted — access to
Toyota has relied on Forcepoint security solutions since 2012.
these files is allowed only inside the enterprise perimeter — controlling
the printing of sensitive material to mitigate potential data loss.

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