Blackbird Group Launches First-of-its-kind Fully Integrated Identity and Access Management...

Blackbird Group Launches First-of-its-kind Fully Integrated Identity and
Access Management Solution at Tech Ed 2009

Seamless Active Directory lifecycle management reduces the cost of compliance,
minimizes downtime, and helps protect corporate data

LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Ed 2009 -- The Blackbird Group today
unveiled the Blackbird Management Suite, an integrated management tool for
Active Directory and Windows that empowers companies to better meet
increasingly strict industry regulations and internal security initiatives.
The powerful software suite seamlessly guides IT departments through the
entire identity and access lifecycle -- from real-time auditing and compliance
reporting to protection and recovery.

A single dashboard provides a consolidated view of "WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN"
for unprecedented ease and efficiency in identity management. As a result,
administrators no longer need to switch between applications and GUIs when
following the identity and access workflow, as is common with other point
solutions. This integrated approach helps minimize deployment costs and
administrator training, as there's just one application to manage and learn.

The Blackbird Management Suite helps enterprises deal with internal security
initiatives and industry regulations (such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and PCI).
It centralizes and streamlines all activities required to provide true
accountability for access and entitlement, including granting, monitoring,
analyzing, reviewing, reporting and standardizing access. Sophisticated
reporting tools provide the necessary proof for compliance auditor teams, and
ensure that business data owners have all the information needed to make
proper, consistent, and timely privilege decisions.

"Security and privacy issues have a significant impact on businesses," said
Christian Ehrenthal, CEO at Blackbird Group. "The Blackbird Management Suite
features intuitive workflows and automated reporting to enable organizations
to enhance their data security and achieve compliance, without putting an
enormous strain on their existing IT resources and budget."

Blackbird Management Suite modules include:

-- Blackbird auditor: monitors Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy
(GPO)
changes in real time - tracking "WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN"
for any modifications. Instant alerts notify administrators of
critical
AD changes that could impact the security or availability of the
Windows
environment.

-- Blackbird privilege explorer: shows exactly who has access to which AD
and Windows resources.

-- Blackbird privilege manager: brings together data owners, end users,
reviewers and approvers - streamlining workflows for authorizing,
activating and revoking entitlements, while ensuring all changes
comply
to security and regulatory requirements.

-- Blackbird protector: actively protects against unauthorized and
accidental modifications to objects in Active Directory.

-- Blackbird recovery: provides real-time change monitoring and recovery
to
ensure the continuous availability of applications and access rights.
Its continuous change log offers an unmatched level of change control,
so administrators can easily roll back to any previous state right up
to
the point in time of the error, and not just from the last backup as
with other recovery solutions.

Evaluation software is available for immediate download at
www.blackbird-group.com. The Blackbird Management Suite has been released to
manufacturing and will ship in approximately 30 days.

In addition, Blackbird offers Blackbird auditor express and Blackbird
privilege explorer express. These free community versions offer real-time
change monitoring and basic access management for organizations with basic
auditing needs.

The team is currently working on companion modules for Windows file system,
Exchange and SharePoint, which will be available later this year.

The Blackbird Group will be demonstrating the entire Blackbird Management
Suite at Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2009 at booth 727, from May 11-15 at
the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

About The Blackbird Group, Inc.
The Blackbird Group is a leading provider of infrastructure management
solutions that enable customers to achieve new heights in compliance, while
also lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO). The company is committed to
helping organizations get the most from their technology investments --
simpler compliance, streamlined governance, increased IT efficiency, greater
reliability and application availability. Blackbird's business-focused
approach fuses a deep understanding of technology and enterprise systems with
each customer's process, workflow, and people to help simplify IT management
and compliance in today's complex business environment. Founded in 2002, the
Blackbird Group is a privately held company. Corporate headquarters are in New
York, New York with offices located in Europe. For more information, visit
www.blackbird-group.com.

SOURCE Blackbird Group, Inc.

Kristin Lindstrom of Blackbird Group, Inc., +1-212-380-1465 ext. 814,
k.lindstrom@blackbird-group.com