Early And Often

In the world of information security, proactive measures are generally considered the most cost-effective, too. McKesson makes an extranet available to a few corporate managers at Rite Aid Corp., the pharmacy chain based in Camp Hill, Pa. These managers will be able to go behind the first of McKesson's two firewalls to view orders and track information about inventories and past purchases by Rite Aid. McKesson's internal systems are guarded behind the second firewall. Before launching the extranet, McKesson began using Internet technologies to sell medications to the Department of Defense in Asia, an arrangement that compelled the distributor to implement a double firewall scheme.
"At the very first stage, security was considered," says McKesson CIO Carmine Villani. "We think about security more as a core value or function rather than a bolt-on." In the past few years, Villani says, McKesson has spent more than $500,000 on various security measures, including secure identification cards with constantly changing digital codes for all employees, and double firewalls to separate the secure servers where the company keeps customer information and its own internal systems.
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