Access Governance Solutions Leader Reduces Cost and Risk Associated with Providing Users Access to Information Resources through Appliance-based Offerings

WALTHAM, MA.—December 19, 2007—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced continued success for its appliance-based governance solutions. Aveksa was the first access governance vendor to offer an appliance, and customer adoption is demonstrating that it is a preferred model for speeding time to value and reducing implementation costs. Overall, Aveksa’s access governance appliance model reduces implementation and maintenance labor costs in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars over traditional software delivery models.

The Aveksa access governance appliance is a highly optimized deployment model that has been available since the middle of 2006, and is now in its third-generation release. The latest generation of Aveksa’s appliance is comprised of the Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements, and the Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance. This enterprise-scale technology is now solving the access governance challenges for Fortune 2000 organizations in wide number of industries.

“Global enterprises are struggling to manage risk and maintain compliance with an ever-growing list of regulations while keeping up with the rapid pace of change to user access, and the faster and more cost-effectively they can accomplish these goals the better,” said Brian Cleary, vice president of marketing at Aveksa. “With this in mind, Aveksa designed its access governance solutions from the start with rapid deployment and reduced cost as key goals, and was the first vendor in the space to offer an appliance-based solution. Based on continued demand for Aveksa’s appliances, this has proved to be an extremely successful and effective delivery model for our customers.”

The Aveksa 3 Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management. With the Aveksa 3 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 risk.

As a ready- to- deploy hardware/software offering, the Aveksa appliance reduces implementation labor costs over traditional software delivery models by eliminating the need to procure hardware and then install the software solution, database, application server and operating system on the hardware. The Aveksa appliance also greatly reduces configuration and system testing costs. In addition, the appliance model reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) over time by eliminating the resources, such as database administrators and IT support, required to maintain a traditional application software delivery models. Numerous deployments of the Aveksa Access Governance platform have shown that the appliance delivery model provides the scalability required to meet the needs of large enterprises.

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 organizations in financial services, healthcare and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.