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Courion Expands Global Operations with India Technology Center

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 08:00 CDT

Courion Extends Research and Development Capabilities with New Facility; Seeks to Widen Range of Industry-Specific Solutions

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Courion(R) Corporation, leaders in access governance, provisioning and compliance, today announced the expansion of its research and development operations with the addition of a new India Technology Center in Pune, India. Following on the heels of record financial performance in Fiscal Year 2008 and Q1 2009, Courion's India Technology Center (ITC) will help meet increased customer demand by complementing the company's existing research and development capabilities.

In addition to its focus on Courion's Access Assurance Suite of applications, the ITC will expand the company's industry-leading library of connectors that integrate more than 160 applications by doubling that number by the end of next year, further improving support for specific industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and others.

Courion has hired Shishir Khedkar, former Senior Director at Visage Mobile, where he oversaw global development teams, to head up the facility as its director of development. Prior to his role at Visage Mobile, Khedkar served as Director of Engineering at VeriSign where he was responsible for setting up VeriSign's development center in Bangalore, India. Khedkar will be responsible for staffing, day-to-day administrative operations and overall strategic direction for the ITC.

"Courion has experienced steady growth over the past several years due to our ability to develop and deliver the industry's most innovative and effective identity, access and compliance management solutions," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO of Courion. "The addition of our India Technology Center will enable us to further widen the 'innovation gap' over our competition at a time when enterprises worldwide are looking to use Access Assurance solutions to drive increased business value and enhanced security at a lower cost."

Courion's unique Access Assurance approach to identity, access and compliance management ensures that only the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things. Access Assurance unifies Access Governance, Access Provisioning and Access Compliance in the most complex, heterogeneous environments. This comprehensive approach increases operational efficiency and transparency, strengthens security, and improves compliance, while delivering the industry's fastest time to value and lowest total cost of ownership.

About Courion's Connector Framework Services

Courion connectors are unique in the industry in several key respects. Where other identity management systems might typically use connectors just for provisioning (add/create/delete/query), Courion connectors provide a wide range of services, including authentication, notification, policy, trigger and reset. And Courion's connectors are light-weight, without extensive business logic, making it easier to modify and update them to meet changing industry requirements. Courion offers connectors for a wide range of platforms, including operating systems (desktop PCs, servers, mainframes), directories, networks, databases, security systems, help desks, middleware, and packaged enterprise applications, such as ERP.

About Courion

Courion's award-winning Access Assurance solutions are used by more than four hundred organizations and over 7.5 million users worldwide to quickly and easily solve their most complex identity and access management (password management, provisioning, and role management), risk and compliance challenges. Courion's business-driven approach results in unparalleled customer success by ensuring users' access rights and activities are compliant with policy while supporting both security and business objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.courion.com, our blog at blog.courion.com/, or on Twitter at Twitter.com/Courion.

To view this release online, go to http://www.courion.com/company/press_release.html?id=411

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Rachel Weeks Courion Corporation 508-661-0467 Brian Alberti Davies Murphy Group 781-418-2403 courion@daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE Courion Corporation

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