T-Com chooses Evidian software to deploy a Single-Sign-On infrastructure for 100,000 users

Paris, June 29, 2004

Evidian has been chosen to provide the secure access management and single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure for T-Com. Serving 100,000 users, this infrastructure will be among the world's largest SSO implementations for heterogeneous environments (from legacy to web).

A division of Deutsche Telekom, T-Com is a full-service provider of IT and telecommunications solutions. It manages approximately 56 million connections, for individuals and small-to-medium-sized businesses across Central and Eastern Europe.

T-Com's success is based on its high-performance network infrastructure, which includes T-ISDN, broadband T-DSL and WLAN networks, and which paves the way for future online multimedia. T-Com's powerful network and IT infrastructures include more than 300 applications.

To further improve service to its customers, T-Com wanted to increase the secure access management of its own IT applications, while simplifying its employees' daily log-in to their business environment.

To meet this requirement, T-Com chose to deploy AccessMaster NG (New Generation), the comprehensive, integrated and modular Identity and Access Management solution from Bull Evidian.

The AccessMaster software will enable T-Com's 100,000 employees to access their 300 applications through a single encrypted password, increasing security and productivity. The solution will not only enforce the global security level and make it much more difficult for hackers to operate, but also significantly reduce the effort and cost of maintaining multiple passwords. This lessens the work load of help-desk teams in resetting lost passwords, a task which consumed costly resources in the past.

"Trust and efficiency are key in our activity," explained Volker Fischer, IT Production Manager at T-Com. "With AccessMaster NG, we are convinced we will improve both our security and our productivity level in a very short timeframe."

AccessMaster NG was named 'Best Buy' SSO solution worldwide and was a finalist for the 2004 'Best new security solution' award by SC Magazine, the premier international magazine in IT security.