The Challenge

From guesswork to control with better access management

Vejle Brand is a Danish insurance company with a 170-year long history of servicing its co-owning clients. In 2020 after a month-long internal test period, Vejle Brand decided to implement Uniqkey to improve the way they manage and control employee access permissions, monitor security on an individual level, and handle password security across the organization.

Having no reliable way of managing company accounts or knowing which services employees had access to, Vejle Brand's IT department struggled to efficiently manage employee access permissions, monitor access-related security vulnerabilities, and ultimately protect the company's digital attack surface.

In today’s digital work environment, lacking a reliable way to manage employees’ corporate accounts and which services they have access to presents a serious security risk for any company, as it makes it impossible for IT to protect the organization’s digital assets.

For this reason, IT consultant at Vejle Brand,Daniel Sönnichsen, knew they had to find a a security tool that would help them achieve the kind of overview and control they needed to confidently protect the company against credential-based cyberthreats.

Minimal visibility means minimal protection

Having no reliable way of managing company accounts or knowing which services employees had access to, Vejle Brand’s IT department struggled to efficiently manage employee access permissions, monitor security levels, and ultimately protect the organization against credential-based cyber risks.

For a long time, access management processes such as the formal offboarding of an ex-employee, which includes ridding the individual of all company access privileges to prevent data leakage, were handled manually and based on memory.

“We needed to find a password and access manager because we simply couldn’t track what online accounts our employees had and which services they used. " - Daniel Sönnichsen

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The Solution

Uniqkey offered the overview and control IT needed to improve security

In 2020, Vejle Brand engaged in a dialogue with Uniqkey and promptly began a month-long product test. After a successful test, they decided to roll out Uniqkey for their entire organization.

“Uniqkey surprised us in many ways. Mainly because it gives the overview and control we need to confidently protect our company. Also, we're very impressed by their automatic 2FA feature which auto-fills OTP codes for our 2FA-protected logins. I haven’t seen any other solution offering that feature.” - Daniel Sönnichsen

With Uniqkey, Vejle Brand now has the overview and control they felt they lacked. Using Uniqkey's centralized access management platform, admins can delegate access rights to individuals and groups in a few clicks and get a full detailed overview of all services connected to the company. In addition, each employee is given a security score based on their password strength.

Trust and security were key for Vejle Brand

Working with insurance, Vejle Brand is built on trust. For that reason, it was paramount that they could also trust Uniqkey to securely encrypt and store their credential data.

“Naturally handing over your password to a third-party requires a lot of trust from our end. With that said, Uniqkey's security infrastructure is solid and we’ve seen no reason to doubt its integrity.” - Daniel Sönnichsen

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The Result

Streamlined access management and improved security

After implementing Uniqkey, Vejle Brand is no longer relying on manual processes and guesswork to manage their employees’ accesses.

Today, as long as employees use Uniqkey, admins can securely offboard ex-employees in a few clicks, monitor the security levels of individual employees, and see exactly which digital services their employees have registered company accounts for. What's more, each employee is equipped with an intuitive password manager that automates their use of passwords to effectively reduce password-related cyber risks at work. Having all this security control means that Vejle Brand is now a more efficient business with significantly fewer cyber vulnerabilities.

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