Case Studies

Global healthcare deploys Lanxoma

Global healthcare company is first to deploy Lanxoma to tighten up access to privileged systems by IT workers.

Privileged access to IT systems is out of control. The increasing number of surveys and news reports of IT workers abusing their password privileges reveals a worryingly rising trend. These insider threats range from IT workers simply snooping on employee records at one end of the spectrum through to far more serious malicious activity and fraud. The growth in incidences is intensifying a security problem that auditors have long been aware of, but have had no easy way to guard against: namely controlling access to privileged information and data.

Set against the general climate of corporate governance and regulatory controls such as Basle II and Sarbanes Oxley, which are designed to reduce risk and demonstrate compliance to the rules, the company's internal auditors raised concerns, not for the first time, over the widespread, cross-border access to privileged information,.

Read the full Lanxoma Heathcare case study here.