Navantia
Profile• Leading military
shipbuilder in Spain.
• 9th supplier in the world.
• Designs sensitive militaryequipment.
Users• 5000 information systemusers.
• Up to 15 applications peremployee.
• Critical applications on
Citrix XenApp.
Challenges• Reinforcing the security ofindustrial applications.
• Single sign-on.
• Unmodified Citrix
infrastructure andapplications.
Benefits• Only one password peremployee.
• Reduced helpdesk costs.
• Enhanced security, thanks
to the elimination ofshared passwords.

A military shipbuilding company secures its accesses.
An industrial environment with high security constraints
Founded in 2005, Navantia owes its origin to the Spanish military arsenals created in 1730.
Thanks to this long experience, Navantia has become the leading military shipbuilding
company in Spain and a major player in the integration of naval techniques. Due to its size andinvestments in innovation and technology, the company is an international reference for thedesign and building of high-added-value military ships.
Navantia employees are spread over several major sites, in Madrid, Cartagena, Bay of Cadizand Ria de Ferrol. The industrial activity is organized into four sectors: military shipbuilding,diesel engines, repairs and conversions, control and combat systems.
A supplier of state-of-the-art military equipment, Navantia is subjected by its clients to strict
security and confidentiality obligations. All sensitive applications (such as design andproduction tool FORAN, project management tool ProjectWise, content and BPM solution
Windchill, IBM z/OS applications, SAP R/3, SAP Portal, etc.) have individual, passwordprotected accounts.

A solution to facilitate and control access
Due to these security constraints, the average number of passwords managed by each
information system user increased regularly. This became manifest in the number of helpdesk
calls and the feeling of frustration expressed by users every day. Moreover, there was a riskthat employees might exchange their passwords or use joint accounts. To solve these problems,
Navantia decided to deploy a single sign-on (SSO) solution.
"We were looking for a SSO solution that would successfully cover the high number andvariety of applications on our industrial sites, while respecting our internal industrial processes.
After evaluating several solutions, we opted for Evidian Enterprise SSO which we found totally
suitable for our needs and very user-friendly", explains José María Rubio Martín, Navantia’sInformation Systems Security Manager.

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Deploying single sign-on
The project started with a preparatory phase during which Navantia worked with Bull Spain,
Evidian’s solution integrator. Bull Spain and Navantia’s project team quickly configured
Evidian Enterprise SSO to take into account the company's numerous applications, some ofwhich were running with Citrix XenApp. The Evidian solution works without modifying any
application: this is particularly suitable for an industrial client with a lot of different applications.

“We needed to reinforce
information system accesssecurity. Out of all the solutions
available on the market, wechose Evidian’s SSO because itis efficient and easy to integrate
into an industrial environment.
Moreover, Evidian makes it
possible to naturally upgrade toidentity management.
Therefore, we think that
deploying Evidian Enterprise
SSO is a first step towards full
identity and accessmanagement.”
José María Rubio Martín,Navantia’s Information Systems
Security Manager.

The deployment was progressive. A pilot was started with several representative users,
followed by a communication campaign offering all interested users the possibility to request
the installation. Installation is automated using Microsoft SMS, the standard distribution tool
within Navantia. After this communication campaign, the solution was installed on about 500
PCs in a very short time. This was followed by an exponential rise in the number of users, as aresult of individual users’ satisfaction.
“After a few months, most users were deploying the SSO solution, which is now an integral partof our industrial processes”, says María Rubio Martín. “Our employees understood bythemselves that the Evidian product made their daily work a lot easier. The solution adapts toeach person’s task and not the other way round”.

When users are convinced…
“We are very satisfied with the deployment of Evidian Enterprise SSO. Our users asked to use
the solution because it facilitates access by eliminating their password management problems”,
concludes José María Rubio Martín. “The software also enables us to control accesses in amore secure and clear manner. This is of utmost importance since our company must comply
with strict security obligations to work with often very sensitive information.”
On a daily basis, the solution has reduced the frustration of users who, in the past, had to workwith many passwords. The helpdesk spends much less time replacing locked or forgotten
passwords.

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Another benefit: security is automatically reinforced since users no longer have any reason toexchange their passwords or to work on the same, open application with other users. In a lot ofcases, employees no longer even know the individual passwords for their applications.

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