Givaudan SA operates 163 locations and 78 production sites globally, manufacturing flavours, fragrances, and active cosmetic ingredients for food, beverage, and personal care products. Founded in 1895 and headquartered in Switzerland, the company employs over 16,000 people developing formulations that scale into billions of consumer touchpoints daily. The threat model: a sprawling operational technology footprint across production facilities, plus enterprise systems managing proprietary formulation data and customer partnerships with major CPG brands.
Their security stack runs on SAP for enterprise resource planning, with detection and response built on XDR, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR tooling. The challenge isn't just perimeter defense - it's securing intellectual property in formulation databases, maintaining operational continuity across manufacturing sites in multiple jurisdictions, and managing supply chain integrity for ingredients sourced worldwide. Industrial espionage risk is material when your core asset is recipes competitors would pay to obtain.
The security team operates at the intersection of IT, OT, and trade secret protection. Production site security means defending SCADA systems and quality control infrastructure; enterprise security means protecting R&D collaboration platforms and customer engagement systems. With operations spanning 163 locations, the team deals with fragmented infrastructure, diverse regulatory requirements, and the operational reality that a compromised production line doesn't just leak data - it halts physical manufacturing of products destined for global brands.
