PurLINK delivers trusted and secure access to online systems, portals and applications

XYZ - a software developer for financial institutions – has always taken great care to ensure that sensitive client and employee information remained secure. By implementing stringent corporate and IT policies, the organization has always been confident with their information security. However, employees are growing concerned that these policies are inhibiting their ability to perform their jobs from outside of the office.

The Challenge: A Secure Intranet Portal with CRM Access

Samantha – the director of IT security at XYZ – has always been proud of the security policies her department has put in place around access to the corporate intranet and CRM system. Samantha is familiar with the growing trend of “any time, any where” work environments, but has typically avoided deploying these types of solutions for security reasons. Her largest concerns include:

Ensuring only authorized employees are able to access information
Inhibiting files from being transferred outside of the corporate firewall
Preventing mobile devices from infecting the organization’s network with malicious code

XYZ employees are starting to request the ability to access the company’s intranet and CRM system from outside of the office, in order to work more effectively on evenings, weekends and while on the road.

Without undoing all the work Samantha has done to keep XYZ secure, she is now considering employing a solution that will seamlessly integrate with their existing intranet and CRM system to provide secure, authorized access to the company’s web systems from any location.

Implementing the Route1 Solution

Samantha discovered Route1’s identity & entitlement management solution and decided to trial Route1’s PurLINK® service with the Route1 MobiKEY® as a means of delivering intranet access to employees outside of the office. Samantha evaluated PurLINK and MobiKEY in XYZ’s web system and was convinced that the solution would provide the end-to-end authentication, connectivity, security and access solution the company required.

Specific advantages Samantha identified while trialing PurLINK were:

Many users were able to be authenticated and provided with access to XYZ’s secure intranet portal and CRM system
Sensitive information – account information, client lists and product descriptions – never left the firewall
Employees were required to use two-factor authentication to receive access to the server

Samantha purchased her entire organization PurLINK subscriptions and Route1 MobiKEYs to provide them with access to the secure intranet portal and CRM. To assist the organization’s IT team with managing and provisioning the PurLINK service and MobiKEY deployment, and employ security policies and reporting mechanisms, Samantha also purchased:

MobiNET Administration and Provisioning™ (MAP): A web-based portal that allows IT administrators within an organization to manage usage policies for subscribers of Route1’s services such as TruOFFICE™ and PurLINK, and products such as MobiVDI and Route1 MobiKEY. This simple-to-access provisioning tool also enables organizations to cost-effectively manage large-scale deployments of Route1’s products and services.
EnterpriseLIVE® SR: EnterpriseLIVE SR is a flexible and scalable hardware network appliance that enables businesses to build a robust, web-based solution that is secured by Route1’s MobiNET® identity management and service-delivery platform.

A Successful Implementation across the Organization

Samantha and her team easily deployed the EnterpriseLIVE SR appliance into XYZ’s network with very limited reconfiguration required and managed the provisioning and usage policies of MobiKEY and the PurLINK subscriptions using MAP.

Since XYZ has implemented its secure intranet portal, the benefits have included:

Allowing employees to access important client information while outside of the office
The continuation of the same corporate and security policies they had in place
Protecting the organization’s network from remote devices infected with malicious code
A cost-effective, scalable solution for the growing company

To obtain more information on how Route1 and the PurLINK service can assist your organization, please contact a Route1 sales representative at +1 866-286-7330 or by email at sales@route1.com.