The computer center of the Barmherzige Brüder Austria is the central ICT service provider for eight hospitals, three residential and nursing homes, and a spa/health center in Austria. Together with the IT departments at each site, the central data center provides IT services that support hospital management and operation processes for a total of 5,500 end-users. In order to secure its sensitive data and confidential records and to make them remotely available, the Barmherzige Brüder implemented an authentication solution with one-time password technology using VASCO’s DIGIPASS and IDENTIKEY.

Objective

A gradual replacement of the existing one-time password authentication solution to secure remote access. The new solution must support authentication via SMS.

Challenge

When deploying the new solution, the existing authentication devices from the previous system still needed to function until their ‘end of life’. This would require a seamless integration with the existing authentication server.

Solution

The Barmherzige Brüder decided against the upgrade of their existing solution and chose for the combination of VASCO’s IDENTIKEY Server with DIGIPASS. IDENTIKEY authenticates all DIGIPASS users and forwards all other authentication requests to the appropriate server. Gradually, the older devices will be replaced by DIGIPASS.

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