South Carolina’s Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services Resolves SSO Issues with Imprivata OneSign

David O’Berry, director of information technology systems for South Carolina’s Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, needed to increase his business efficiency for the 850 users of the department’s network. However, he did not want the increased productivity to conflict with IT security.

O’Berry’s environment is a distributed one – out of 850 users, there are just 50 desktop PCs. The rest use remote access with their laptop PCs. The probation department has 56 offices around the state, and also provides network access from 46 courtrooms, where its agents spend a lot of their time. “We support our officers in the courtroom, but we don’t own that infrastructure,” he said. Because of the mobility of the computers and sensitive nature of the data they carry, the department has been using whole-disk encryption for about three years, which adds another layer of complexity to the sign-on problem. “Most endpoint encryption vendors want to grab the log-in first and then pass it on,” O’Berry said.

To find out more about how O’Berry selected Imprivata’s OneSign Single Sign-on to manage passwords for his department’s users read “ One password says it all - South Carolina agency’s single sign-on system boosts authentication, security” in Government Computing News.