Orchestrates Efficient Processes for Managing the Lifecycle of User Access
WALTHAM, Mass.—November 9, 2009—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance and management solutions, today announced the Aveksa 4.0 Enterprise Access Governance Platform. This latest release of Aveksa’s flagship solution features new enhancements and integration capabilities that enable organizations to deploy continuous processes for managing, measuring and improving how access is delivered to business users and governed across the enterprise. Aveksa 4.0 reduces the cost and complexity of managing access throughout its lifecycle, enabling organizations to increase operational efficiency, minimize risk and simplify compliance.
“IAM is evolving to address the dual concerns of accountability and transparency,” said Earl Perkins, research vice president of Gartner, Inc. “It is increasingly obvious that for IT governance to ultimately succeed, IAM business processes must ensure that access events can be vetted for accountability, validated preventatively and reported well for compliance. As customers become more aware of the role IAM plays in delivering such an environment, market solutions to provide it will receive increased attention and business.”
“Managing access for tens of thousands of users while keeping pace with change and maintaining compliance is a time-consuming process that can quickly become unsustainable without automation,” said Craig Shumard, CISO of CIGNA. “We expect that Aveksa 4.0 will provide us with a simplified process for delivering access to our users, along with the controls we need to manage access changes and efficiently meet our compliance objectives.”
The Aveksa 4.0 Access Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance and management. It is comprised of Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager, which combines a business-centric user interface and a streamlined request and fulfillment process with embedded policy controls to ensure that access is appropriate; Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, certification, reporting and remediation of user entitlements; and Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance. Aveksa 4.0 enables organizations to deploy automated, continuous processes for governing and managing access request, receipt, review and revocation to reduce complexity and increase operational efficiency. With Aveksa 4.0, IT operations and security departments can better manage access while keeping pace with the changing dynamics of the business environment.
“Access governance has evolved into a business issue. Through a roles-based approach, IT organizations can simplify access change management and speed up access delivery while maintaining compliance with industry regulations,” said Mickey Roach, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. “However, many organizations face issues as they try to solve their access governance challenges at the data or application level, where there is far too much complexity. Businesses are recognizing the need for a framework that provides a simplified, compliant process for the business to request access and for IT to more easily address that change across all the appropriate information resources.”
Key new features of the Aveksa 4.0 Access Governance Platform include:
Intuitive, Business-friendly User Interface—dramatically simplifies the access request, approval and fulfillment experience for both business users and reviewing supervisors. Aveksa 4.0 provides relevant views into the roles, information resources and compliance tasks that specific user types or departments can perform in the system. Users can also easily track the delivery status of their access requests.
Integration with Existing Access Request Processes—increases the efficiency of companies’ access request initiatives. Through a new Web services interface, organizations can now leverage Aveksa’s rules and change management engine from existing homegrown access request systems, user provisioning and IT service management systems.
Detailed Transactional Metrics—enable organizations to monitor and measure access request, fulfillment and delivery processes to optimize their effectiveness.
Highly Configurable Workflow Engine—easily accommodates organizations’ unique access request and governance processes. Through a visual, drag-and-drop interface, organizations can efficiently create automated workflows for access request, approval, escalation and fulfillment.
Dynamic Rules—detect and prevent compliance violations across access requests, role design, certification and revocation processes. Rules can also detect events that trigger an organization’s unique workflows for access management processes.
Enhanced Role Lifecycle Management—enables flexible role hierarchies together with collaboration for all stakeholders in the role management process.
“Forward-thinking organizations are recognizing the value of delivering access to the business with processes that have built-in compliance,” said Deepak Taneja, founder, president and CTO of Aveksa. “Aveksa 4.0 empowers organizations to simplify their access management processes with automation and embedded governance. With Aveksa 4.0, enterprises worldwide will more easily meet their access governance objectives, while increasing operational efficiency.”
For information about Aveksa 4.0, including an expanded list of product features, please visit: http://www.aveksa.com.
About Aveksa
Aveksa provides the industry’s most comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance and management solution. Aveksa enables organizations to manage the complete lifecycle of user access to information resources through an automated, continuous process for access request, approval, fulfillment, review, certification and remediation. Aveksa helps IT organizations reduce access management complexity and increase operational efficiency while minimizing risk and ensuring sustainable compliance. Leading Global 2000 organizations in financial services, healthcare, retail, energy/utility, telecommunications, transportation and manufacturing rely on Aveksa to efficiently address access request, fulfillment and regulatory compliance demands. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.
