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Version3 Provides Simple Sign-On (SSO) To Premium Standard Farms

Premium Standard Farms, one of the largest pork producers in the United States, required the management of multiple applications and their passwords. The need to address regulatory compliance issues was another factor in the selection. They chose Version3 Simple Sign-on to address its identity management challenges and application access management issues. The chosen solution needed to be able to further improve service to its employees and increase the secure access management of its own IT applications, while simplifying its employees' daily log-in to their business environment.

"Version3 was the key to helping our business solve our application access issues," said John Eudy, senior systems administrator, for Premium Standard Farms. "Being able to utilize our existing Microsoft Windows and Citrix applications, and deploy Version3 Simple Sign-On without needing to modify our existing infrastructure was a huge selling point to us."

Version3 assumes a Windows login and access to Microsoft Active Directory to enable its Simple Sign-On product. Enterprise, Web and Enhance Authentication editions are offered to customers. Policy data is stored in AD and a built-in authorization engine is leveraged for policy reinforcement.

To further the benefits to Premium Standard Farms, Version3 Simple Sign-On (SSO) aided the company with their Sarbanes-Oxley activities by enhancing their network security and protecting sensitive corporate databases and information.

"There's a considerable amount of administration cost to maintain multiple people in disparate systems," said Andy Sakalian, president, Version3, Inc. "What companies want and need is the ability to not have to remember all the passwords, roles and permissions. We are thrilled to have worked with Premium Standard Farms on the Identity Management Program."

About Version3, Inc.

Version3, Inc., based in Columbia, South Carolina, created Version3 Simple Sign-On is a full-featured, application access management solution. Simple Sign-On allows organizations to manage user access to applications and network resources efficiently while providing increased security, lower costs, and a significant return on investment. At its core, Simple Sign-On is an identity management element that frees users from remembering user names and passwords for multiple applications, Web sites, and legacy systems. Simple Sign-On can be configured to give users security-enhanced access to all required line-of-business applications using one set of network security credentials (www.ver3.com).

About Premium Standard Farms

Premium Standard Farms, Inc. (PSF) is one of the largest vertically integrated providers of pork products in the United States, producing consistent, high quality pork products for the retail, wholesale, foodservice, further processor and export markets. It has approximately 4,100 employees working at farms and processing facilities in Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas (www.psfarms.com).