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Entrust Datacard Case Study

Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise telecommunications services company is based on a September 2015 survey of Entrust Datacard customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Entrust Datacard kept the business running despite not having all users in the office.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Entrust Datacard:

Solved the following challenges by deploying Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution:
- Reduced the amount of security risk
- Simplified the authentication process for end users
- Increased productivity for IT staff and employees
- Met regulatory requirement standards
- Reduced costs
- Replaced an existing authentication solution they felt no longer met their needs
Evaluated the following vendor before choosing Entrust Datacard:
- RSA

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Entrust Datacard that the surveyed company uses:

Most important product features to the purchasing decision:
- Risk based authentication / transparent authentication
- Deployment flexibility with rich integrations, APIs, and SDKs

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Entrust Datacard:

Realized a Return on Investment in 1+ year after implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Realized 50-74% of Return on Investment as a result of implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Increased productivity for their IT staff by 1-2 hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Reduced costs by 25-49% with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.

Entrust Datacard Case Study

Large Enterprise Health Care Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a September 2015 survey of Entrust Datacard customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Self Service is great, and using the deployed mobile tokens has saved us untold hours of support and management of tokens.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Entrust Datacard:

Solved the following challenges by deploying Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution:
- Reduced the amount of security risk
- Simplified the authentication process for end users
- Met regulatory requirement standards
- Reduced costs
- Replaced an existing authentication solution they felt no longer met their needs
Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
- RSA
- Symantec
- McAfee

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Entrust Datacard that the surveyed company uses:

Most important product features to the purchasing decision:
- Broad support for many authenticators and use cases
- Risk based authentication / transparent authentication
- User self-service features

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Entrust Datacard:

Realized a Return on Investment in 9-12 months after implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Realized >75% of Return on Investment as a result of implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Increased productivity for their IT staff by 1-2 hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
Reduced costs by >75% with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.

Entrust Datacard keeps us safe!!

— Engineer, Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Entrust Datacard Customer Research

67% of Entrust Datacard Instant Issuance customers rate us 4 stars or higher!

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Entrust Datacard Customer Research

Please rank the importance of the following features to your organization:

Most Important Very Important Important Less Important Not Important

Identity Proofing
Credential-based authentication (PKI)
Single Sign-on
Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), and dynamic attributes
LDAP
API & URL protection
Passwordless authentication
User authorization (Oauth)
Adaptive Authentication
Identity Provider (IdP) proxy
Session Management
Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
Orchestration

Entrust Datacard enabled our organization to grow and expand operations into over thirty-five states.

— Security Officer, Medium Enterprise Health Care Company

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Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Services Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Entrust Datacard

Large Enterprise Health Care Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About Entrust Datacard

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About Entrust

Entrust's software authentication platform manages today’s most secure identity credentials, solving their customers’ digital security challenges in cloud and mobile security, physical and logical access, citizen eID initiatives, certificate management, and SSL.