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Gene Villeneuve, SVPBuilt on cloud technologies, Tehama’s SaaS-based platform is tuned for accelerating the time to IT service delivery and enabling organizations to monitor the activities carried out by the consultants or contractors accessing their corporate assets. “We had to make sure that everything these third-party service providers do when they are working on a company’s platform is highly secure and is timely audited,” explains Gene Villeneuve, Senior VP of the Tehama Business Unit. The Tehama platform also proves significant for the IT service vendors, enabling them to onboard customers in a secure manner. The company thus assures significant benefits to the customers—the buyers of IT services—and the service providers, with its two-sided platform.
Tehama’s “ready-to-work” platform allows organizations to create a secure virtual perimeter (room) around workspaces in the cloud, in which third-party contractors can securely deliver their services. Administrators of these perimeters, have the authority to grant access to contractors and assign virtual laptops or systems. “It is a secure software-defined perimeter controlled by organizations wherein companies can set up several virtual work environments for securely accessing different corporate assets.
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We had to make sure that everything these third-party service providers do when they are working on a company’s platform is highly secure and is timely audited
Tehama also has privileged credential secret vaults that secure login credentials for corporate networked assets. These secret vaults allow clients to create a secret mechanism where usernames and passwords can be isolated to a particular virtual work environment and made available to third-party vendors, fully under the control of the administrator. As contractors are unable to directly access the secure administrative credentials, they are protected from tampering, eliminating the possibility of password theft.
With such a broad set of security and accessibility features as these, Tehama has helped a significant number of clients securely deliver several IT projects. Pythian is a global IT service provider and has benefited significantly by relying exclusively on the Tehama platform. Since Tehama’s inception, Pythian has relied on the company’s platform to deliver its services to their customers rather than asking customers to ship laptops. “Our partnership with Pythian has grown rapidly due to this highly secure platform and the speed with which we can accelerate and secure the delivery of our services to our clients,” states Villeneuve.
Having spent merely two years in the market, Tehama has gained rapid traction in the US and has grown its footprint to include Ireland and Sydney. Going forward, the company plans to expand delivery centers in Montreal and Frankfurt. Further technical growth to the platform will include leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bolster its capabilities.
Company
Tehama
Management
Gene Villeneuve, SVP
Description
Offers a SaaS-based platform to seamlessly manage, onboard, scale, secure, and audit all third-party vendor services
Based in Ottawa, Tehama is a business unit of Pythian, a global IT product and services company. Tehama was created by industry experts who understand that enterprises, and the providers and individuals who service them, need better ways to adapt to a changing workforce while protecting against growing security concerns like insider breaches and IP theft.
By consolidating all the necessary tools and technologies to securely connect and collaborate with third parties into one SaaS-based platform, Tehama enables Pythian and other service providers, multi-national organizations and technology partners to deliver highly skilled services to the world’s most innovative, yet security-conscious businesses. Through a combination of secure access controls, isolated and collaborative workspaces, and continuous compliance, security and business leaders can easily ensure regulatory compliance, reduce overall operating costs, and achieve business agility.
“Institutions are struggling with how to balance security, access risks, governance and compliance when computing resources— or human resources— are not on premise,” said Tehama Senior Vice President Gene Villeneuve. “Tehama provides a complete cloud-based system to rapidly onboard and securely engage a contingent workforce in minutes— something that used to take months and immense resources.”