Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Mayday implements single sign-on with smartcard and PIN

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Mayday Healthcare Trust in south London has implemented a single sign-on solution that will enable its two thousand users to sign on to all IT applications using one smartcard and PIN number. With Enline’s Imprivata OneSign solution, staff will be able to log on and off and gain access to all applications, by inserting and removing their smartcards. The changeover period between sessions on designated shared workstations, when one user logs off and another one logs on, will be significantly reduced.

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