Case Study: Specsavers achieves secure, scalable remote access and lower TCO with Thales SafeNet Trusted Access

Specsavers Brings Security into Focus with Thales Two-Factor Authentication

Specsavers, a multinational optical retailer with more than 1,300 branches and some 26,000 staff, needed to quickly secure remote access for hundreds of employees while scaling for rapid international growth. Specsavers selected Thales and its SafeNet Trusted Access (formerly SafeNet Authentication Service Cloud Edition) to address these authentication and data-protection challenges.

Thales deployed SafeNet Trusted Access using a mix of hardware, software and SMS tokens plus a tiered user-group management structure to delegate local administration and scale globally. The solution delivered measurable benefits: secure remote access for hundreds of users, lower total cost of ownership through Thales’s OPEX subscription model and reduced implementation overhead, long-life tokens with a 5-year warranty (Specsavers reports over two years without replacing a single token), and freed IT resources to focus on higher-value work.

Specsavers

Angus Dorey

Infrastructure & Security Architect