Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V.

There are organisations that are as diverse as life itself, like the German Johanniter- Unfall-Hilfe emergency service with its broad range of tasks and numerous state, regional, district and local associations. But while a decentralised structure is a great advantage when working at the accident site, it is a real challenge when it comes to digitalisation – especially IT security and identity management.

Jörg Hartmann, IT Manager of the Hesse/Rhineland-Palatinate/Saar regional association:

Whether it's deployment plans, webmail or checklists - our employees need access to different IT applications for their work. However, these accesses were organised very differently depending on the national association. We wanted to change this, which is why we decided to set up a centralised secure portal.

Simple, secure, efficient: this is how the future Secure Portal should be. The choice fell on the Airlock Secure Access Hub, which was then implemented in collaboration with a managed security service provider. There were two main reasons in favour of Airlock: The Secure Access Hub is an integrated overall solution that guarantees a high level of future security thanks to its structure with WAF, API gateway and IAM including 2FA. And Airlock is virtually predestined for complex tasks in heterogeneous organisations.

The example of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe clearly shows what this means in concrete terms: when nursery teachers can access duty rosters, emergency doctors can call up checklists on site and disaster relief workers can send emails securely even when abroad - then all employees benefit from centralised access to exposed services thanks to the Secure Access Hub. This is the advantage of Airlock's upstream solution: many users can use many downstream applications via many end devices - and all via a single, standardised access point.