Nippon Paint

Discover how Paraview helps Nippon Paint tackle challenges of identity and access management, privileged access management and API access management.

Overview

Industry

Manufacturing

Business Nature

Paint Manufacturing

Company Size

No. 4 Largest Paint Manufacturer Worldwide

Services Required

IAM, PAM & API

Regarding identity and access management, Nippon Paint faced several challenges, including:

Lack of Security Integration in Development
The limited focus on security and lack of developer training result in product development prioritizing functionality over security, leading to overlooked vulnerabilities.‍
Insufficient Development of Information Security Framework
Nippon Paint faced gaps in building a comprehensive security framework, leading to substantial risks in security management.‍
Technological Gaps in Security Infrastructure
Nippon Paint urgently needed to establish its own SOC and SIEM platforms to collect and analyze essential log data for improved security.

Regarding API management, Nippon Paint was in need of the following measures:

Unified API Access: A centralized API access channel is needed to streamline the management and usage of APIs.
Unified Monitoring and Analysis: There is an urgent need to conduct comprehensive analyses of API performance and errors to support future optimization efforts.
Unified Interface Standards: The aim is to establish a standardized and abstracted interface system to enhance the reusability and flexibility of APIs.
Unified Business Processing: It is essential to encapsulate different business processing logic into standardized interface services, ensuring consistency in business processes and outcomes across all systems.

IAM System: Automates the entire employee account lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, boosting security and productivity by protecting assets from ransomware, hacking, phishing, and other cyber threats.
PAM System: Enables comprehensive auditing of account activities and performance evaluation of outsourced personnel, strengthening the overall security infrastructure.
Enterprise-Level Integration Standards: Paraview implemented an API management platform that transformed the network topology into a streamlined architecture, effectively controlling the number of interfaces and establishing enterprise-level standards to facilitate rapid interconnectivity between internal systems.
API Lifecycle Management: This encompasses API development, testing, publishing, and authorization, ensuring comprehensive governance throughout the API lifecycle and enhancing data flow management.
Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts: Continuously monitor the status of APIs and servers, providing timely alerts for any anomalies to maintain the platform's high availability and reliability.
API Security Protection: By employing strategies such as authentication and authorization, attack prevention, data encryption, and data masking, Paraview ensures the security of API transmissions, preventing data breaches and unauthorized access.

Automated management of employee account lifecycles.
Comprehensive auditing and traceability of all account holder actions.
Improved performance evaluation and account management of outsourced personnel.
Reduced Development Costs for System Integration: Integrated over 180 business systems and more than 1,500 APIs, with a particular emphasis on encapsulation of APIs from various SAP modules, significantly enhancing interface reusability.
Standardization of Service Protocols: Established clear integration standards, standardized message formats, and a unified interface protocol.
Comprehensive Logging and Analysis: The API provides a complete data monitoring and analysis framework, featuring multiple forms of anomaly alerting.
Reduced Disparities Between Heterogeneous Systems: The implementation of the API management platform has minimized discrepancies in standards between systems, reducing both system coupling and complexity.