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ANSecurity helps East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust upgrade secure access

May 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé

ANSecurity has announced a successful project with East Sussex Healthcare NHS
Trust to upgrade its secure access capabilities leading to a 30% reduction
in costs associated with software licensing and management overheads.

Serving a community of approximately 525,000 people across East Sussex, the
Trust is one of the largest organisations in the county employing over 6,000
dedicated staff with an annual turnover of £365 million. With increased use
of information technology systems for both clinical and administrative
tasks, the Trust has seen a steady rise in requests for secure remote
access, which its legacy solution had struggled to address.

“We did not feel that our legacy solution and managed service was able to
address our growing secure access requirements,” explains Dan Lloyd, senior
infrastructure engineer at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, “In addition,
it was assessed that an upgrade would allow us to make considerable saving
in ongoing charges along with use of more self-service tools, for user
on-boarding and maintenance, that would provide additional cost savings in
terms of management time, without compromising security.”

After examining a number of options, the Trust approached ANSecurity for
guidance on developing a new secure access solution. Working in partnership
using ANSecurity’s “Co-Driver” approach, the Trust’s IT department and teams
from ANSecurity managed different aspects of the end to end solution
including the design phase, implementation with additional steps such as
failover testing, configuration management, bespoke training and support in
meeting NHS security compliance requirements.

The project included upgrading its VPN infrastructure to new Pulse Secure
‘Connect Secure’ appliances to cope with a larger number of users accessing
services, using a wider range of devices. This upgrade included the
enablement of a number of secure self-service tools to simplify access for
guests along with easier moves, adds and changes for existing users. The new
solution uses active device scanning prior to connection to the Trust’s
network, to ensure that devices have the correct updates and patches before
they are given access to sensitive applications. The next stage upgraded its
existing two factor authentication solution; to use a smartphone based App,
that further reduced management overheads associated with handling physical
two factor authentication tokens.

“The project has delivered against our expectations and we estimate that it
will achieve cost savings of around 30% compared to our legacy solution, in
respect to our secure access requirements,” says Lloyd, “ANSecurity has been
with us across every step of the process and provided us with expert
guidance and practical support, and the end result is a securer and easier
to manage environment that is able to scale in line with our needs.”


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