Encentuate in the News
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Brian Prince, eWeek, March 13, 2008 |
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John Fontana, Network World, March 13, 2008 |
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Jim Carr, SC Magazine, March 13, 2008 |
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Timothy Wilson, Dark Reading, March 13, 2008 |
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Charles Babcock, Information Week, March 13, 2008 |
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Computer Business Review, March 13, 2008 |
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Business Week, March 13, 2008 |
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Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, March 13, 2008 |
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Sean Michael Kerner, Internetnews.com, March 12, 2008 |
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Galen Gruman, InfoWorld, February 25, 2008
Capacitor manufacturer Kemet followed this integrated-cycle approach in its Vista deployment, notes Global Infrastructure Manager Jeff Padgett, who began planning his Vista upgrade 18 months ago, several months before the first version was available to businesses. Because the company was already planning an upgrade of its 5,600 desktop PCs and 2,000 laptops when Vista's availability became clear, Padgett decided to combine the OS and hardware upgrade into one IT migration plan, not treat them as separate projects. (To be safe and to keep on schedule, he did install XP on new systems deployed in the first year of the hardware refresh, knowing that they would all support Vista when he was ready to bring it on board, which he plans to do this spring after ensuring application compatibility.)
Gary Wilhelm is following a similar strategy at the Englewood Hospital Medical Center in New Jersey, where he is the hospital's business and systems financial manager (a combination of CTO and CFO). For Wilhelm, the gating factor on deploying Vista was also software compatibility: The Encentuate single-sign-on software that the hospital uses was only recently updated to support Vista and is now being tested, notes Wilhelm.
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Network World, January 1, 2008
The Encentuate IAM Suite enables enterprises to automate access to corporate information assets, strengthen security, and enforce compliance across all end-points. Through a user-centric approach, Encentuate delivers enterprise single sign-on, strong authentication, session management, workflow automation, and centralized admin and audit capabilities, without requiring changes to existing IT infrastructure. The IAM Suite is deployed by customers spanning a range of industries, including healthcare, biotechnology, manufacturing, government and financial services.
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Lutheran Medical Center's new automated order-entry app sped up its move to single sign-on
Paul Korzeniowski, Dark Reading, December 28, 2007
At the end of last year, Lutheran Medical Center began searching for an access and identity management system to address its access and password management problems. The company talked to a handful of vendors, including ActivIdentity, Encentuate, Imprivata, PassLogic, and IBM. The hospital selected Encentuate because of its shared-workstation features that let users customize their screens on the central workstations, as well as for its low price, Art says.
The Encentuate end-point identity and access management (IAM) suite was installed in the spring, first in the hospital's IT department. After that, a trial followed in a nursing station on one floor. "When we pulled the [trial] system out, the nurses complained, so we knew we were on the right track," said Art.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News, November 2007
Robert Walstra, vice president of marketing and business development for Encentuate, says hospitals are moving quickly to adopt new access management technology, "but to my surprise, we're always running into new scenarios."
Vendors like Encentuate now offer solutions that not only verify a person's identity, but also offer "strong authentication" to make sure the right people have access to the right information – in other words, says Walstra, "to enforce the role that you have been assigned." The burden, he says, is on the vendors to make access as easy as possible without affecting security.
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Beth Bacheldor, RFID Journal, November 2007
In operation since 1890, the Englewood, N.J., hospital has 520 beds and more than 2,500 employees. The medical center is using an identity and access management (IAM) solution from Encentuate, based in Redwood City, Calif. The system combines low-frequency (LF) 125 kHz RFID proximity tags embedded in employee badges with single-sign-on (SSO) software, workflow and security management functions that nurses, doctors and other hospital employees can utilize to access the facility's computers and applications. SSO is a method of access control that enables a user to access multiple software applications after a single authentication.
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Joanne Friedrick, Security Director News, July 2007
Through its partnership with Encentuate, an identity and access management company, Vasquez said CMC took its existing security badges and used them via readers installed at PCs to control logical access as well. This process also helped meet the needs for two-factor authentication, noted Vasquez. The system has been deployed at CMC's three acute care hospitals and will be added to its surgical facility in the next six to eight months, said Vasquez.
Within a hospital, the goal is to balance ease of access with the appropriate level of security, noted Vasquez. "Just saying HIPAA rules applied wasn't enough," he said about getting clinicians to buy into the system. It had to be easy and quick to use and provide benefits, such as a single sign-on.
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New biometric and cognitive tools revolutionize multifactor approach
Jeff Vance, Network World, May 31, 2007
Stamford Hospital, a teaching hospital in Stamford, Conn., with more than 300 inpatient beds and 2,300 employees, turned to Encentuate's RFID tags to help with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance, affixing them to employee ID badges. The hospital had invested in RFID for building security, so it wanted to find a way to leverage that investment to provide online authentication.
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Dave Kearns, Network World, May 14, 2007
Healthcare organizations can have individual non-employees such as physicians, patients, caregivers and temps, as well as corporate non-employees (suppliers, affiliated organizations hospitals, critical care facilities, insurers); municipal services (emergency services, state and national health agencies); and educational partners (teaching hospitals, researchers). A strong reliance on role-based access controls can make healthcare provisioning easier, but the typical healthcare organization will probably have more roles than some other industries have total non-employees seeking access. Roles make it easier, but they don't make it easy.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News, March 01, 2007
A pair of access management companies are joining forces to ensure that remote doctors and physicians' clinics have easy and secure access with the hospitals they serve. Encentuate, a provider of end-point identity and access management solutions, is partnering with Aventail, a Seattle-based provider of SSL VPN solutions, to create the Encentuate and Aventail Solution for Secure Remote Access.
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Healthcare IT News, February 01, 2007
Encentuate iTag provides organizations with the flexibility to leverage any personal device or badge for two factor authentication and securely access information systems. The patent-pending technology leverages the cost-effective and widely prevalent smart label technology to provide the most flexible and universal two factor authentication solution in the market.
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February 2007
Encentuate has been declared a winner in the "Best Identity Management Solution" category by SC Magazine Awards 2007.
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"It's just a great solution to a fairly complex situation." — Dr. John Rodis
Chief Medical Officer
Stamford, Conn.
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