Vendors Selected for the “Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance, 2009” Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

WALTHAM, MA—March 30, 2009—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Gartner “Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance, 2009” report by Gartner Analysts French Caldwell, Earl Perkins, Roberta J. Witty, Jeffrey Wheatman, John E. Van Decker, Jay Heiser and Richard J. De Lotto published on March 19, 2009.

According to the report, the product and service offerings from this year’s Cool Vendors “all offer real benefits in terms of business performance, information quality and continuity of service, as well as the core proposition of improving effectiveness and reducing the costs of compliance and risk management.”

“Aveksa is honored to be included in Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors’ report, and we consider it tremendous validation for the value we are providing to global enterprises by addressing their access risk management and compliance challenges,” said Brian Cleary, vice president of products and marketing for Aveksa. “Aveksa is committed to delivering the industry’s most innovative and capable access governance solutions that will help organizations more efficiently and effectively ensure the appropriateness of user access across all their information resources and provide them with the controls automation to ensure that access-related business risks are mitigated.”

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management. It is comprised of the Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements; the Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance; and the 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 can now leverage the industry’s most scalable solution to 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 across the entire enterprise.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Report
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.