CASE STUDY APPLICATION 05 Product: vinCERT速 Sector: Pharmaceutical Launch date: 2013 Number of users: 15
CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS Independent pharmaceutical company committed to the quality of life for people through innovation of medicines, medical devices and health products with high added value.
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Centralised safe-keeping, management, control and auditing of corporate software certificate use STARTING POINT Employees in the Finance, Administration, HR and Health Records sectors routinely use corporate software certificates in their relations with public administration, especially the Spanish Tax Agency, Social Security, the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices, the Spanish Department of Traffic, local councils and specialised portals such as Labofar and Seguimed. The organisation had several permissionsharing certificates belonging to the corporate group on behalf of the CEO available to a
broad employee group (up to 20), without the possibility of control formulas that would strictly ensure that they were used in accordance with the parameters set and the purposes assigned for each user. This caused a security concern for both information management and company management. Though only a medium-sized organisation, the entity had a control mechanism using several virtual teams which focussed on certificates and tried to supervise their use, but effective mechanisms of control and audit of the use of each certificate, its expiration and renewal could not be established.