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George Rathbun, director of IT architecture at Pfizer, is also the CTO for SAFE-BioPharma, the pharmaceutical industry group coordinating secure sharing of information with physicians and others. SAFE members, including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Proctor & Gamble, and Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, have embarked on a shared authentication approach based on public-key infrastructure cross-certification. Rathbun recently chatted with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer to discuss how this security program works and what its implications are for users.
SAFE, which stands for Signatures and Authentication for Everyone, was established about one and a half years ago to meet the challenge of global online identification of individuals in the pharmaceutical industry. We now have 30 [corporate and government] members. We initially looked at sharing a single directory, a database of personal information, to have a single authentication source. But instead, we went with an approach to public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates based on a bridge.
A bridge is a certificate authority dedicated to issuing certificates for bridging multiple certificate technologies. Today, there's a SAFE bridge certificate authority that issues cross-certificates to anyone that's part of it. We call it the "trust bridge." It's maintained by a vendor, CyberTrust.
Well, for example, all of the workforce at Johnson & Johnson is already PKI-enabled internally with their own digital certificates. J&J [last month] elected to have their corporation certified with the trust bridge. To do that, J&J went to a cross-certification ceremony where agents from J&J made sure the certificate authorities are aligned and there are no discrepancies between policies. It's quite a bit of work. But it creates a trusted network of [certificate authorities] for authentication. Vendors, such as CoreStreet, are also involved in supporting the bridge.
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