Courion Positioned as Leader in Access Governance by KuppingerCole

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Courion Corporation, the leader in risk-driven identity and access management (IAM), today announced it has been named a leader in product, innovation and overall strength in the “KuppingerCole Leadership Compass” on access governance.

“In today’s era of open access, organizations are subject to the growing burden of trying to protect information across a broad variety of application platforms while simultaneously demonstrating compliance with a growing range of industry and regulatory requirements”

Access governance has become critical as chief information security officers (CISOs) increasingly focus their attention on reducing risk through proactive verification of business users’ access rights. Its importance is growing along with the rising frequency of data breaches around the world. For CISOs researching access governance solutions, the survey recognizes providers that merit consideration.

Released today, the Leadership Compass is authored by Martin Kuppinger, founder and principal analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading global analyst firm for identity-focused information security. The firm evaluated 18 access governance products for the report.

“Courion definitely is amongst the vendors that should be taken into account when looking for an Access Governance solution. They show innovativeness and provide a feature-rich, established and well-integrated platform,” says Kuppinger.

KuppingerCole notes that access governance is the fastest-growing segment in the IAM market. Access governance is gaining traction because of the need for organizations to ensure the right people have the right access to the right resources and to demonstrate that they are doing the right things with this access.

“In today’s era of open access, organizations are subject to the growing burden of trying to protect information across a broad variety of application platforms while simultaneously demonstrating compliance with a growing range of industry and regulatory requirements,” said Kurt Johnson, vice president of strategy and corporate development at Courion. “The Courion Suite automates access certification and compliance, enabling business managers to certify access to enterprise applications and take remedial action if necessary, as well as providing industry-leading access intelligence capabilities that indicate where potential access risk exists. We’re pleased KuppingerCole highlights this capability in their latest Leadership Compass and points to Courion’s strengths in access governance, access intelligence and the IAM market overall.”

The Courion Access Risk Management Suite provides a simpler deployment model and delivers faster time-to-value than other leading IAM solutions. The suite is automated and configurable for rapid implementation based on the best practices of more than 500 successful customers. It integrates key IAM functions such as identity and access governance, user provisioning and password management. It is available as on-premise software or as a pay-as-you-go SaaS (software as a service) cloud offering called CourionLive™.

The suite includes Courion’s Access Insight™, the industry’s first Access Intelligence solution designed to change operational security tools into strategic business tools. Access Insight constantly analyzes IAM and other security data from access governance, user provisioning and password management systems, as well as from external sources, such as SIEM and DLP systems, to identify and quantify real-time access risks to vital information such as intellectual property, medical records, personally identifiable information and customer data. This critical information can also be integrated into enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) applications as part of an overall enterprise view of access risk.

To see the full report, visit http://info.courion.com/KuppingerColeLeadershipCompassIAG_Landingpage.html.

About Courion

Courion Corporation is the pioneer of risk-driven identity and access management. Seventeen million users across more than 500 organizations rely on Courion’s access risk management technology to align user access privileges with corporate and regulatory governance policies. Courion’s cloud and on-premise solutions provide a full range of real-time identity and access management functionality while demonstrating compliance and achieving quick time-to-value.

For more information about Westborough, Mass.-based Courion, visit www.courion.com or check out our blog at www.courion.com/blog.

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