Entrust IdentityGuard Enables Georgia-based Hospital Network to Deploy Strong Authentication for Rem...( Grid card deployment saves hospit...),Health

Grid card deployment saves hospital money, enables more wide-spread

authentication for network access

DALLAS, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To comply with HIPAA regulations, the Georgia-based Gwinnett Medical Center already was leveraging two-factor authentication via hardware tokens in order to protect patient files, sensitive medical data and clinical information. The solution, however, was cost-prohibitive to deploy to a wider audience and cumbersome for the medical staff to use. To address these concerns, Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) turned to Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) and the Entrust IdentityGuard versatile authentication platform, a cornerstone of a layered security approach.

"From a cost perspective, it was just hard to top the versatility and strength of the Entrust IdentityGuard authentication solution, but the usability for our staff members really put the Entrust solution over the top," said Rick Allen, IT director at Gwinnett Medical Center. "We now are able to save money across the board and deploy strong enterprise authentication for a larger group of users, and the employees can just carry the grid cards with their ID badges, which makes them much easier to keep track of than a key-fob token. In addition, the platform supports a wide array of authenticators that, in the future, can help us secure a variety of applications that also house sensitive patient information."

Facilitated by trusted partner PossibleNOW, Entrust IdentityGuard with one of its innovative authentication capabilities, grid cards is now used to authenticate GMC doctors and staff who wish to remotely access the corporate network via SSL VPN. Gwinnett will initially deploy grid cards to be deployed to 1,5
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