"Companies using OneSign benefit not only from secure and reliable SSO, but could also significantly reduce product development costs and implementation time."
Chris Larivee, Senior Software Engineer
Leading Biopharmaceutical Company
Life sciences companies operate in one of the most highly-regulated industries in the world. Now, as pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturers deal with industry consolidation and the need to compete globally, they are facing a new set of government regulations mandating increased IT security measures and processes – from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the U.S to the Data Protection Act in the UK. New industry standards, such as BS7799 in the UK and BS7799-2 and ISO 17799 worldwide, are also driving organizations to adopt stronger security controls. In the case of the government mandates, failure to comply could result in fines and/or legal action.
Compliance has been a challenge for many life sciences companies, primarily due to the high costs, time and resources required to secure complex legacy applications and IT environments. At the same time, many companies have become increasingly concerned about physical security at their facilities. Now, a growing number of pharmaceutical and biotech firms are discovering that Imprivata OneSign solutions offer a practical and affordable means to achieve regulatory compliance while also improving security, reducing IT help desk costs, eliminating password management problems, and improving user productivity.
Imprivata OneSign solutions support the unique requirements of life sciences companies in the following ways:
Imprivata OneSign Authentication Management
- Authenticates both local and remote access users as they logon to the enterprise network;
- Supports user accountability by recording all user and application events in log files, providing a monitoring trail accessible to administrators;
- Ensures compliance to meet HIPAA and other regulatory requirements, safeguards access, and prevents the misuse of confidential patientinformation;
- Supports strong authentication, including ID tokens, smart cards, proximity cards and biometrics technologies;
- Ensures policy enforcement because it requires no change in end user behavior;
- Supports fast user authentication and logout on shared workstations to strengthen security infinancial servicesfacilities where multiple users share one or more workstations.
Imprivata OneSign Single Sign-On
- Extends user authentication protection to include software applications;
- Single sign-on to all legacy, Web, Java,client/server, mainframe and terminal-based applications;
- Reduces costs and improves user productivity by sharply reducing help desk and password reset calls;
- Automates the process of implementing strong password policies.
- Integrates building and network access systems for unified enterprise security management.
- Consolidates identities between physical access systems and IT directories to enable one converged policy for allowing or denying network access based on a user's physical location, organizational role and/or employee status.
- Provides integrated and centralized user access monitoring and reporting capabilities in order to better demonstrate regulatory compliance.