EDA tools, design files, and process IP — including ITAR and export-controlled technical data — live on engineering desktops where every plugin, extension, and background utility inherits the user's full access.
Turbo Sandbox confines each tool to a policy-bound workspace — so a compromised plugin or a careless paste doesn't carry critical R&D off the endpoint.
To be productive, engineers must install IDE extensions, EDA add-ons, and custom tools on demand. Yet on a normal desktop, any one of these can enumerate repositories, read SSH keys and API tokens, and beacon out to attacker infrastructure — all with the user's full privileges. Recent compromises of popular developer tools show how routine this vector has become.
A compromised IDE extension or EDA plugin reads all design data, harvests credentials, and transfers IP to an external application or endpoint. Detection, if it comes, comes after the data is gone.
The tool sees only interacts with data attached to its workspace. Sensitive data does not reach the general desktop. Outbound connections are routed to policy-based isolated environments.