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LEADING
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES USE ENSURE'S INNOVATIVE SECURITY
TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEET INFORMATION SECURITY
REGULATIONS
Ensure's
Award-Winning XyLoc™ Security Solution Helps Companies
Meet FDA Regulations for Securing Electronic Records and Protecting
Integrity of Digital Signatures
Ann
Arbor, Mich., September 23, 2002—
Ensure Technologies, the leader in intelligent digital information
security solutions, today announced that several leading pharmaceutical
companies have selected Ensure's award-winning XyLoc™
security solution to help meet Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) regulations for the protection of electronic information.
Current FDA regulations require pharmaceutical companies to
implement procedures to ensure the authenticity and integrity
of electronic records, including limiting computer access
to authorized individuals and keeping audit trails of computer
activity. Banner Pharmacaps, Sanofi-Synthelabo and Schering-Plough
are among the pharmaceutical companies using XyLoc's convenient
and continuous security to help meet these requirements.
Pharmaceutical
companies using XyLoc also have more control over electronic
signatures, another FDA requirement. Electronic signatures
provide an additional way to identify users, but a window
of vulnerability exists anytime a computer is left unattended,
even for a minute. XyLoc provides two-factor authentication
of users, with the added safeguard of securing access to computer
the moment authorized users step away.
"The
drug approval process is a long and arduous one that should
not be complicated with matters of information security,"
said George Brostoff, president of Ensure. "The FDA is
understandably concerned with the authenticity of trial data
and full-time protection of this information. XyLoc gives
pharmaceutical companies the assurance that only authorized
users have access to information systems, and provides an
audit trail to prove it."
XyLoc:
Protecting Pharmaceutical Companies
XyLoc
is an award-winning security product that provides continuous
authorization of employees in a manner that is convenient
for users. At pharmaceutical companies protected by XyLoc,
users wear unique XyLoc KeyCards (that can double as their
ID badge) that communicate securely with proximity detection
hardware and sophisticated software residing on each workstation.
A computer is unlocked only after XyLoc has identified and
authenticated a user.
Authentication
can be as easy as walking up to the computer, or as robust
as requiring users to input their name and password in addition
to possessing the KeyCard. Users need to remember only one
password, and with XyLoc's Single Sign On functionality all
of their applications will automatically appear each time
they approach a workstation. However, as soon as a user walks
away from the computer, XyLoc secures the PC and the applications
until the user returns or another authorized user approaches.
About
Ensure Technologies
Headquartered
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com)
is the leader in intelligent digital information security
solutions designed to protect an organization's intellectual
property and physical computing assets from internal security
breaches - conveniently, automatically and transparently.
Ensure's XyLoc products apply the innovative, patented technologies
of full-time access control and proximity-based authentication
to guard corporate data, and asset tracking to monitor and
protect computing hardware throughout the enterprise from
desktops to mobile PCs. XyLoc delivers security with convenience
and personalization at leading organizations in healthcare,
financial services, government, manufacturing, and law throughout
the world. XyLoc has won the TEPR Award for Best Healthcare
Security Solution at the TEPR (Towards an Electronic Patient
Record) Conference for two years running.
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