Hitting the Accelerator with Island
The Island Enterprise Browser ensures that everyone at Hendrick Motorsports has what they need to go fast and win races.
Increasing employee productivity
It starts with user productivity. Like many companies, Hendrick Motorsport employees often want to use new tools that will help them be more productive. Oftentimes, IT is stuck in the unfortunate position of saying “no” to these tools, at least until they can fully evaluate them, which takes time. But with Island, the Enterprise Browser, they can enforce data boundaries, allowing users to utilize new tools while restricting them from entering or uploading sensitive data, and gain full visibility into user actions involving these tools.
“Often, an IT department is cornered into saying ‘no’ or ‘That's a security issue’ when, internally, we really want to say yes. We just didn’t have the ability to do so. With a partner like Island, we're able to say ‘yes’ a lot more and increase that productivity.”
Island also allows the IT team to make more of their stakeholders happy. The CFO wanted a way to distribute links to important apps and documents to all employees based on their role. Island allowed the company to create customized homepages for each employee based on their Microsoft Entra user groups, containing persistent, updateable links to everything they need to do their job.
Like many companies, Hendrick Motorsports is using artificial intelligence in various parts of its business. Island comes with an AI assistant powered by the Azure OpenAI service, which has proven so popular that users have been sending requests to IT to get access to the capability.
Protecting data and extending controls to the last mile
Hendrick Motorsports also wanted granular control over end user actions to improve their security posture. Island’s last mile controls allow administrators to establish data boundaries and enforce controls across all websites and users. This includes controlling what websites users can visit, what data they can view, what they can cut, copy, and paste, and much more. Given the competitive risk of operating in close proximity to industry rivals, Hendrick Motorsports uses Island to embed watermarks to any page with sensitive intellectual property.
These watermarks contain metadata about the date, workstation, and user accessing the data. If data is ever leaked through photos or screenshots, these watermarks allow Hendrick Motorsports to determine when and where the data was lost.
Hendrick Motorsports also utilizes last mile controls to protect users against phishing sites. When a user visits a site that isn’t a known company webpage and begins to type their corporate credentials, Island blocks the actions and warns the user that this is not an approved website for their company account. In addition, Hendrick Motorsport uses the built-in Island Password Manager to help employees keep up with their credentials and maintain good password hygiene.
%25201.avif)
.svg)
.svg)
.avif)
.avif)
.svg)
.svg)
