Pharmaceutical and BioTech

Problem Statement

Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies are among the most dynamic and growing industry segments in today's global market. Record breaking returns on revenues and strong market capitalizations push this industry to constantly strive for innovation. As a result, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology are two of the most research-intensive industries in the world, with over $50 billion spent each year on new technologies and product development. Sustaining such an investment in R&D and the present growth rates pose formidable challenges also from the perspective of information technology and security. The principal problem areas can be summarized as follows:
- Protection and control of Intellectual Property (IP)
The company's IP is clearly recognized as a corporate primary asset on which to base key strategic initiatives. Therefore, there is a need to control the access to the information resources and to secure the confidentiality and integrity of all the sensitive files and data. The corporation must be able to track the usage of each file and to limit the diffusion according to its internal policies.

- Secure communication with partners, consultants and contractors
The extended enterprise includes outside companies and organizations which often need to have access to internal documents or to exchange sensitive information with the corporation's employees. How can one secure such communications? Is it possible to easily provision outside users and manage their privileges using a flexible need-to-access approach?

- Secure mobile workforce
Today's labor force needs to gain access to the corporate resources while on the road as much as when working from the main office locations. Securing the mobile access and remote communication channels to the enterprise is a true challenge, in view of the variety of possible connection technologies and computer configurations used for remote access.

The e-Capsule™ Enterprise Suite

The e-Capsule™ Enterprise Suite addresses all the security concerns of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology corporations. With e-Capsule™ your organization can centrally control and manage valuable IP that is shared both internally and with external partners. You always retain control over the distribution of information so that only the people you authorize can access it and read it, so that there is no worry about accidental or intentional leaks of sensitive information. All data is stored on a centralized repository where it is classified and encrypted before upload. The e-Capsule™ zero-footprint feature assures that access to sensitive information can be made readily available to authorized users, without requiring previous installation on the PC. The data transfers occur over an encrypted_channel established and enforced by the e-Capsule™ application launched from the user's personal USB Access Token. The community of users can be classified according to corporate security clearance levels, which determine the enterprise rights management (ERM) profiling of the individual employees. Once uploaded, the sensitive information can be shared and accessed by utilizing a set of secure view tools, whereby data is displayed but never downloaded and/or released in decrypted version. Non-repudiation and Action logging assures compliance to privacy regulations, provides a detailed audit trail to prove which information has been disclosed helping to establish a corporate culture for the secure access to sensitive information. Local encryption tools allow users to secure all their PC files and folders in distributed data containers, saved on any local or network attached storage devices. The centralized encrypted repositories can be configured in cluster to assure the highest levels of availability and redundancy. Failure of perimeter defences will not cause unauthorized disclosure of confidential data, but only affect its availability.

In summary, the e-Capsule™ Enterprise Suite empowers the mobile corporation with unprecedented tools for storing, accessing and sharing sensitive information while assuring regulatory compliance.

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