Market Leader Delivers Third Generation of its Proven Access Governance Solution with New Enhancements

WALTHAM, Mass.—February 20, 2008—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced the release of Aveksa 3.5. Now in its third major release, the Aveksa Enterprise Access Governance Platform is a mature and proven offering that enables organizations to manage access across all users, information resources and entitlements. Available immediately, Aveksa 3.5 is a feature-rich solution that provides organizations with an automated, policy-based approach for governing user access that mitigates access-related business risks while reducing the cost, complexity and burden of ensuring sustainable compliance.

“Global enterprises are struggling to manage the business and compliance risks associated with providing users access to information resources in a highly fragmented information resource environment, and the manual tools they are using today are not getting the job done,” said Brian Cleary, vice president of marketing for Aveksa. “Aveksa is enabling customers to overcome the challenges of governing user access through a complete offering that includes access policy management, compliance automation and continuous role lifecycle management.”

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform includes Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements, as well as Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance. Aveksa 3.5 features new enhancements to more efficiently address the unique access governance requirements of each enterprise, including:

• Improved access data collection and unification capabilities—to provide more flexible automated options for data acquisition and simplified configuration of data collectors that reduces deployment time and speeds up time to value.

• Enhancements to access review and certification process configuration—that easily accommodates an organization’s unique requirements for the process they use to conduct access review and certification.

• Enhanced administration functionality—includes enhancements to reporting as well as new functionality to provide access and role review status monitoring views for specific business entities and to delegated reviewers, which now makes the review process measurable.

• Improved features for role lifecycle management—through enhancements to role design collaboration functionality as well as more configuration options to role discovery and lifecycle management across enterprise information resources.

• Access data mapping capability—enables orphaned accounts and entitlements to be logically mapped with a user, which provides an easy way to clean up access data issues on initial implementation as well as during regular access review periods in an on-going fashion.

The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management. Aveksa’s solutions enable customers to better manage access in a constantly changing business and regulatory landscape while reducing the risks related to security breaches, compliance violations and operational losses. By presenting user access information in a business context and providing an intuitive user experience, Aveksa accelerates user adoption and ensures that accountability for governing access is driven into the right areas of the organization. Aveksa delivers a more efficient, sustainable process for access governance that reduces the risk, cost, complexity and organizational burden.

About Aveksa
Aveksa provides the only 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.