DENVER COLORADO - DIGITAL ID WORLD — October 26, 2004 — Courion® Corporation, a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions, and Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, today announced they have formed a strategic alliance that will expand the identity management services offered by Deloitte & Touche. The two organizations have begun working together to support the identity management needs of several companies, including HEALTHSOUTH Corporation of Birmingham, Alabama.
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Under the agreement, Courion’s award-winning Identity Management Suite™ will help support Deloitte & Touche’s i-MAAP (identity-Management-Authentication-Authorization, and Protection) framework, which addresses challenges such as enterprise-wide secure access authentication, authorization, directory services, single sign-on and a growing list of regulatory and compliance requirements facing organizations today.
Anchored by its AccountCourier® user provisioning and PasswordCourier® password management product lines, Courion’s Identity Management Suite (IMS) supports i-MAAP, one of the first component-based, integrated approaches to identity management, making it possible for existing infrastructure to optimize user productivity, improve operational efficiencies, strengthen security and reduce costs. A new product module in IMS, ComplianceCourier™, helps automate a broad set of processes necessary for verifying IT access on a forced, scheduled, recurring and actionable basis, and administering self-service policy awareness training and testing as a way to monitor access to IT resources. Such automation distributes the responsibility for compliance to appropriate resources responsible for effectively managing the related risk within organizations.
“IT in the healthcare industry has become increasingly driven by industry and federal regulations, and the need to put solutions in place that enable organizations to be in compliance across all critical points of the enterprise,” said David Fulk, Director, ITG Operations at HEALTHSOUTH. “HIPAA is among the myriad of regulations that companies in nearly every industry are addressing. Leveraging the regulatory, industry, control and technology integration knowledge of Deloitte & Touche with best-of-breed technologies like Courion’s Identity Management Suite provides an opportunity for organizations to implement self-service solutions that can quickly result in an improved user experience and a fortified identity management program.”
“As one of the few remaining independent identity management vendors in the industry, we are committed to anticipating and delivering on the needs of the market,” said Courion president and CEO Chris Zannetos. “Formalizing our alliance with Deloitte & Touche will further accentuate the value of Courion’s Identity Management Suite and its ability to deliver rapid operational efficiencies to clients who are seeking an easy to implement, flexible method to help achieve regulatory compliance, better employee access control and a reduction of costs across the extended network.”
“Courion’s identity management heritage and focus on supporting an organization’s ability to comply with regulatory requirements through self-service identity management is in step with the market’s need for credible technology solutions that address today’s critical business issues,” said Mark Ford, Principal and National Identity Management Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Through our strategic alliance with Courion, Deloitte & Touche has added another set of tools to support the i-MAAP framework, further helping companies to better manage and reduce risk across the organization.”
ABOUT COURION
Courion Corporation provides award-winning self-service identity management solutions in Identity Management Suite™. Over 220 enterprise customers worldwide including 50 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize the Suite to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning, password management, industry and regulatory compliance, virtual directory management and digital certificate management. By leveraging the existing infrastructure and integrating disparate workflows within the enterprise, Courion solutions drive operational efficiency, optimize user productivity, strengthen security, reduce costs and ensure efficiency in achieving policy compliance. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit
www.courion.com.
ABOUT DELOITTE
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas — audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services — and serves more than one-half of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.
As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other’s acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names “Deloitte,” “Deloitte & Touche,” “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,” or other related names.
In the U.S., Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP, and their subsidiaries) and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. The subsidiaries of the U.S. member firm are among the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities. Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel. For more information, please visit the U.S. member firm’s website at www.deloitte.com/us.
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