Market Leader Adds Top Systems Integrators and Consulting Partners for Accelerated International Growth across Industries

WALTHAM, Mass.—March 17, 2008—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced the rapid growth of its alliance program. Created to propel the worldwide adoption of Aveksa’s Enterprise Access Governance Platform, the program has forged strong alliances with leading solutions providers to enable them to offer Aveksa’s technology as part of their advisory services in the areas of identity management, controls and compliance consulting. Over the past year, Aveksa has added many of the world's top systems integration and consulting organizations to address diverse access risk and compliance needs for customers across a broad range of industries. Aveksa now has 15 global and regional system integration firms in its alliance program. In addition to these relationships, Aveksa has also forged alliances with a number of key technology vendors that complement the company’s solutions.

Aveksa’s systems integrator and consulting alliances work closely with Aveksa to implement its enterprise access governance solutions. Through their relationships with Aveksa, these organizations provide customers with best-in-class services for strategy consulting, architecture, implementation, systems integration, training and ongoing customer support.

“PricewaterhouseCoopers helps organizations gain the confidence to succeed in a business environment rife with constant change, and user access governance is one critical challenge many companies are facing,” said Mickey Roach, a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Advisory practice focused on security and identity management. “PwC’s advisory practice has an alliance with Aveksa that enables us to leverage their technology with our proprietary access control methodology to help clients achieve a consistent approach to access governance that can help support and sustain effective identity and access management across the enterprise.”

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management. With the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, organizations can more efficiently address security and regulatory demands through a collaborative process that automates manual tasks, enforces accountability, provides evidence of compliance and reduces business risk that is related to user access.

“Organizations that have identity and access management technologies already in place are looking to leverage and enhance these investments with capabilities that will solve their access governance challenges and ensure sustainable compliance,” said Binod Singh, president, CEO and co-founder of Ilantus, a leading provider of identity management consulting services for the IBM Tivoli, BMC, Oracle, CA and other platforms. “Aveksa’s solutions provide the business context, policy management, compliance automation and risk management functionality that complements and extends the value of user provisioning systems.”

“Because of our extensive knowledge of the financial services industry, SENA Systems is keenly aware of the challenges highly regulated organizations face as they seek to achieve access compliance, particularly with the overlapping access recertification reporting requirements of regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, GLBA and BASEL II,” said Maneesh Bhandari, founder and executive chairman at SENA Systems. “Through our partnership with Aveksa, SENA is able to help customers govern user access across regulations and more efficiently accomplish compliance objectives.”

In addition to its thriving efforts with systems integrator and consulting organizations, Aveksa has also continued to forge strong alliances with the leading technology vendors to enhance their current offerings through integration with Aveksa’s solutions. Through complementary technologies, tight integration and a uniform focus on delivering customer value, Aveksa and its technology alliances offer unparalleled solutions for enterprise access governance.

“Over the past year alone, Aveksa has built a thriving alliance ecosystem that extends beyond strong relationships with advisory services firms to include leading technology vendors as well,” said Pamela Cyr, vice president of business development for Aveksa. “Because the Aveksa Access Governance Platform is complementary to identity and access management technologies, as well as a number of different security and data governance solutions, Aveksa has been able to build strong momentum for its alliance efforts. We look forward to even greater expansion in the coming year.”

About Aveksa
Aveksa provides the most comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the 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 Fortune 1000 organizations in financial services, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.