Anywr: enhancing cybersecurity and compliance for global teams and operations

Meet Anywr

Established in 2012, Anywr is an HR services provider specializing in global mobility and staffing solutions. Its mission is to support organizations in addressing their human resource challenges with tailored, expert-driven solutions. 

 They deliver comprehensive services to assist with immigration, relocation, international mobility policies, and employer of record (EOR) solutions. Additionally, Anywr offers other services, including direct recruitment, executive search, and consulting, focusing on IT, life sciences, and recruitment process outsourcing industries. Anywr combines operational excellence with a deep commitment to customer proximity, ensuring its services are responsive, efficient, and aligned with its clients' needs.

The company operates across 12 countries and 4 continents, with employees based in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, India, Vietnam, China, Morocco, Ivory Coast, and Canada.

The challenge of staying compliant 

In a nutshell, compliance means that an organization adheres to applicable laws and regulations. This includes country-specific laws, requirements from regulatory authorities, and internal company rules.

Companies employ various tools that help facilitate compliance. One of them is a password manager, as most regulatory compliance standards require organizations to implement security measures to limit the possibility of unauthorized access. For example, GDPR, PCI DSS, GLBA, and CIS Controls have outlined guidelines for ensuring the security of personal data processing and storage. 

For companies like Anywr, cybersecurity is critical as they handle a lot of personal documentation, such as for their clients' immigration processes. That's why they must ensure that documents like these are secured, processed, and stored following the GDPR requirements. Additionally, they have to overview multiple country-specific security regulations.

So, they started looking for a trusted password manager that would allow their employees to securely store and generate strong passwords and keep their company accounts safe. 

Streamlining compliance with NordPass 

NordPass' end-to-end encryption and zero-knowledge architecture ensure the finest privacy and security standards for businesses. It offers a secure way to store and access passwords and other sensitive information in line with regulatory requirements. 

To tick more boxes for the Anywr password manager needs, with the NordPass Password Generator, their employees can generate unique and strong passwords that are then safely stored in the vault that's encrypted with the XChaCha20 encryption algorithm. The passwords are generated according to a company-wide password policy. These rules are defined with the Password Policy feature and set standards for password complexity: the use of upper- and lower-case letters, special symbols, numbers, and the minimum character limit.

So, by implementing NordPass' company-wide password policy, Anywr has ensured a consistent and secure password standard across its global offices, which is critical for meeting regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR. 

Additionally, Anywr teams can securely share credentials if needed. They also use Shared Folders, a feature allowing users to share multiple items simultaneously. These folders are dedicated to each service and country that Anywr is located in, and hold specific IT teams’ access to that country. This ensures that different teams can share them seamlessly when needed, making cross-country and cross-team collaboration a breeze without compromising security. 

Aiming for the highest security

According to Florian Laskowski, a Head of IT Operations and PMO at Anywr, the company takes cybersecurity seriously and believes it's a continuous improvement process. 

During the onboarding, Florian's team ensures that the new employees are familiar with the security systems and explains how each application works. Additionally, the company organizes concurrent, in-depth cybersecurity training for its employees. In these trainings, they emphasize the necessity of using a password manager, highlighting that it's not enough to just remember passwords or autosave them in the browser. 

To make their employees' lives even easier (and safer), the IT team directly implements security solutions such as NordPass directly into their chosen browsers via the company portal so they can instantly start using them. 

Anywr also employs User and Group Provisioning via Microsoft Entra ID that seamlessly integrates with NordPass to ensure everything is in sync across multiple systems and applications. 

Effortless cybersecurity  

Florian Laskowski says that NordPass has made password management easier and safer for the company's employees. According to him, NordPass' Admin Panel is equally intuitive. For example, when the team needs to offboard an employee, the Admin can easily transfer the data to another employee so that important accesses don't get lost.

This ease of use, coupled with top-tier security and streamlined compliance via features like Password Generator, Password Policy, and Shared Folders, has improved Anywr's cybersecurity posture and made it a tool that employees actually use. 

So, if your company is facing similar challenges while ensuring cybersecurity and compliance posture, NordPass can help you improve security and help to meet regulatory requirements. Contact our experts today to see what NordPass can offer for your business.