Another pioneer in remote working is the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV Bund). As the largest pension insurance body in Germany, it employs some 24,000 people. DRV Bund supports 23 million insurance customers and 10 million retirees in Germany and abroad. The Federal Office for Information Security has classed DRV Bund as one of Germany’s critical infrastructures (KRITIS), which covers companies in the fields of energy, food, telecommunications, health, transport, and finance that are vital for the functioning of society. “We are therefore challenged to fulfill very high security and data protection requirements. After all, millions of people are reliant on receiving their pension every month,” says Volker Korsanke, acting head of DRV Bund’s IT department in Berlin.
Accordingly, DRV Bund chose secunet to upgrade its existing mobile and home office workstations to the SINA Workstation. Around 11,000 workstations had been equipped with mobile SINA devices by the end of 2020. This mass rollout at the Berlin head office and in branch offices, customer contact centers, testing offices, rehabilitation clinics, and private homes was completed on schedule. The SINA laptops were sent in theft-proof mesh boxes to their destinations, where comprehensive user training also took place. At the same time, some 24,000 dongles/smartcards for logging on to the clients were programmed and delivered to users together with the devices. “Implementation of advanced technical solutions, such as SINA, has enabled us to remain fully operational during the Covid-19 pandemic. What’s more, attractive options for mobile working and working from home have now become firmly established and are part of our employer marketing strategy for recruiting young talent,” says Korsanke.