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VeriSign solutions help Encysive manage security resources

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Overview

The pharmaceutical and bio-sciences industries, much like technology, experience periods of hyper growth as certain drugs are approved by regulators. This often creates an explosive cycle of change that can be difficult to keep up with internally. For Encysive Pharmaceuticals, based in Houston, the booms in its business cycle must be expected and planned for by all employees including executives and information technology (IT) staff who develop plans to handle the expected growth.

Key Challenges

To provide an efficient managed firewall solution for an expanding company to ensure up-time and security, Encysive needed to partner with a third party to provide expertise in managing the growing complexities of their firewall-protected environment, while lowering cost of ownership.

“With VeriSign we are able to focus on our core competencies and not worry about the minute-by-minute firewall activity—that is why we have partnered with VeriSign. I can sleep at night knowing that if there's a problem, I'll be notified. If not, we're always up and running. That's worth every penny.”

Carl Burquist
Senior Network Administrator
Encysive Pharmaceuticals

Solution

Encysive implemented an outsourced VeriSign Firewall Management Service that includes a staff of security experts and the ability to scale as Encysive expands.

Results

The VeriSign solution replaced an internal firewall process, and added a level of security expertise that enabled the IT organization to extend their resources.
Encysive could spend significantly more time focusing on its core business.

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