Pharma & life sciences · Laboratory IT · Quality Control · OT Security
Give laboratory instruments distinct, rotatable machine identities
Can each instrument authenticate without shared credentials that outlive ownership or calibration status?
Operational pain
Legacy analyzers and lab middleware commonly share certificates or service passwords, making attribution and revocation unreliable.
Trigger
Lab network segmentation, LIMS replacement, or an integrity investigation.
QNSI contribution
Connect the decision to a controlled security path
Register instrument certificates, keys, owners, methods, and rotation constraints in QNSI policy and inventory.
Decision artifact
An instrument identity ledger linking cryptographic identity to asset, calibration, software, and responsible laboratory.
What still requires validation
The lab validates instrument support, method impact, time synchronization, revocation, and regulated change control.
External problem context
Primary sources
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Evidence boundary
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