Courion Expands Global Operations with India Technology Center

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:03am EDT

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

Rachel Weeks of Courion Corporation, +1-508-661-0467, or Brian Alberti of
Davies Murphy Group, +1-781-418-2403, courion@daviesmurphy.com
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