DIGIPASS BY VASCO Plymouth Community Homes Case Study Secure remote access to Plymouth Community Homes’ corporate network thanks to VASCO’s DIGIPASS Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) is a not-for-profit housing association that was created to take over the ownership and management of council homes in and around Plymouth, UK. PCH was set up to manage around 15,000 properties; it is the largest locally-based housing association in the UK. It is dedicated to providing desirable, sustainable homes in strong communities. Bob Thatcher, IT Infrastructure Technical Lead, explains the problem: “Plymouth Community Homes needed a solution to provide secure access for employees to connect to the company network from home or working remotely. Therefore, they chose VASCO’s DIGIPASS to provide strong two-factor authentication because of its flexibility, interoperability, ease of use and hassle-free deployment. Total cost of ownership was also an important factor in the decision making process.” REMOTE ACCESS To keep track of the current trends and needs for its employees, PCH offers its workforce the ability to work whilst out of the office. When in the office and whilst working remotely via 3G or WIFI, Citrix XenDesktop provides PCH staff with access to their desktop, applications and data. Two-factor authentication was needed to guarantee remote access would be secure and manageable. A SMALL HARDWARE DEVICE PCH opted for VASCO’s DIGIPASS GO 6 in the front-end, supported by IDENTIKEY Authentication Server. When an employee wants to log on, he or she only has to fill in their username, password and the one-time password generated by the DIGIPASS device. IDENTIKEY Authentication Server validates the authentication requests and grants secure access to PCH’s corporate network. This solution works seamlessly with the Citrix environment. Stem Group, working in conjunction with the PCH IT department, procured and deployed the VASCO system to all PCH staff requiring remote access. COST AND INTEGRATION “We opted for VASCO for several reasons,” Bob Thatcher, IT Infrastructure Technical Lead at Plymouth Community Homes explains. “First of all, we have confidence in VASCO’s authentication and network security. Secondly, they offered us the best value for money. Thirdly, the ease of administration for adding or amending users is very flexible, which means that the number of users can easily be increased or diminished. In a nutshell, we are very happy with the extra layer of security provided.” The world’s leading software company specializing in Internet Security Case Study DIGIPASS BY VASCO Plymouth Community Homes Case Study Objective PCH needed to secure its corporate network when employees logged on remotely. Challenge The solution had to be integrated into a Citrix environment and cost effective to deploy and maintain. Solution VASCO’s one-button device DIGIPASS GO 6 was selected, together with IDENTIKEY Authentication Server. About Plymouth Community Homes PCH is a non-for-profit housing association. It was set up after 67% of council tenants voted in favor of the company taking over management of around 15,000 properties in and around Plymouth. It is the largest locally-based housing association in the UK. They are dedicated to providing desirable, sustainable homes in strong communities. (http://www.plymouthcommunityhomes. co.uk/) About Stem Group Stem Group is a leading business technology, IT support & services provider in the South West. It is part of The Una Group, a £6m company with more than 40 employees. Its technical team is second to none with a great breadth and depth of skills, and a lot of accreditations and certificates. (http://www.stemgroup.co.uk/) About VASCO VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet Security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as global software company for Internet Security and designs, develops, markets and supports DIGIPASS®, CertiID™, VACMAN®, IDENTIKEY® and aXsGUARD® authentication products. VASCO’s prime markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government. www.vasco.com BRUSSELS (Europe) phone: +32 2 609 97 00 email: [email protected] BOSTON (North America) phone: +1 508 366 3400 email: [email protected] S Y D N E Y ( Pa c i f i c ) phone: +61 2 8061 3700 email: [email protected] Copyright © 2013 VASCO Data Security, Inc, VASCO Data Security International GmbH. All rights reserved. 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