Case Study: Vanderbilt University Medical Center prevents employee identity theft with Thales SafeNet Trusted Access

Thales's SafeNet Trusted Access Helps Prevent Employee Identity Theft at VUMC

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a large academic medical center in Nashville handling more than 2 million patient visits annually, faced persistent phishing campaigns that aimed to harvest employee login credentials and access sensitive HR records. To stop employee identity theft and protect direct deposit, tax and personal data in its C2HR portal, VUMC chose Thales and deployed SafeNet Trusted Access along with SafeNet MobilePASS to add multifactor authentication across its user base.

Thales implemented SafeNet Trusted Access (cloud-based) and SafeNet MobilePASS, plus hard-token options for users without smartphones, and VUMC now requires MFA for HR self-service access as of November 19, 2018. The Thales solution enforces stronger, device-flexible authentication, prevents credential-based breaches, protects employee data integrity, and has allowed VUMC to extend MFA protections to additional systems while reducing the risk of security incidents.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Andrew Hutchison

Executive Director