CIGNA Selects Aveksa for Simplified, Compliant Access Request and Change Management Across Its Enterprise

Global Health Services Company Chooses Access Governance Leader to Deploy
Automated, Policy-Driven Process for Initiating, Approving and Validating User
Access Requests
WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance
solutions, today announced that leading health service company, CIGNA has
selected Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager to create an automated,
compliant and business-friendly process for access delivery across its entire
enterprise. CIGNA will leverage Access Request and Change Manager to streamline
the user access request process while ensuring ongoing compliance with internal
policies and industry regulations.

"Keeping pace with access changes for tens of thousands of users can be an
extremely laborious and time-consuming process when approached manually," said
Craig Shumard, CISO of CIGNA. "With Aveksa`s Access Request and Change Manager,
we can now more effectively manage the access change and delivery process while
simultaneously helping to ensure that our compliance objectives are being met."

With more than 25,000 employees, CIGNA constitutes one of the largest investor
owned health and related benefits organizations in the United States. CIGNA
selected Aveksa to enable a business self-service process for access change
management that allows line of business managers and end users to request or
modify access privileges while enforcing business policies and orchestrating
changes across enterprise information resources. Through its deployment of
Access Request and Change Manager, CIGNA will further extend its use of the
Aveksa Access Governance Platform, which the organization is currently
leveraging for enterprise-wide review and certification of user access.

"Access change management processes and controls present a significant challenge
for most organizations that can only be solved with automation," said Deepak
Taneja, founder, president and CTO of Aveksa. "With Access Request and Change
Manager, Aveksa is providing leading organizations like CIGNA with the
automation and policy controls they need to deploy a business-friendly process
for access change management that promotes increased efficiency, proactively
manages access-related risk and helps enable them to achieve sustainable
compliance."

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is the industry`s first comprehensive
solution for access governance, risk and compliance management which delivers
unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. The Access
Governance Platform is comprised of Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates
the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements;
Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance; and
Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager, which combines a business-centric
interface and an automated, streamlined request process with policy controls to
ensure that access is always appropriate.

With the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, organizations such as CIGNA can
efficiently address security and regulatory demands through a collaborative
process that automates manual tasks, enforces accountability, provides the
auditable evidence of compliance, reduces access-related business risk, and
creates an effective process for access delivery and change management across
the entire enterprise.

About CIGNA

CIGNA (NYSE:CI), a global health service company, is dedicated to helping people
improve their health, well-being and security. CIGNA Corporation's operating
subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioral health,
pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group life, accident and
disability insurance, to approximately 46 million people throughout the United
States and around the world. To learn more about CIGNA, visit www.cigna.com. To
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About Aveksa

Aveksa provides the most comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance,
risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the on-boarding,
change management, monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user
entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and
delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With
Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and
enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Global 2000
organizations in financial services, healthcare, retail, energy/utility,
transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.

Schwartz Communications
David Bowker or Dave McKee
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