Global Health Services Company Chooses Access Governance Leader to Deploy Automated, Policy-Driven Process for Initiating, Approving and Validating User Access Requests
WALTHAM, Mass.—July 13, 2009—Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced that leading health service company, CIGNA has selected Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager to create an automated, compliant and business-friendly process for access delivery across its entire enterprise. CIGNA will leverage Access Request and Change Manager to streamline the user access request process while ensuring ongoing compliance with internal policies and industry regulations.
“Keeping pace with access changes for tens of thousands of users can be an extremely laborious and time-consuming process when approached manually,” said Craig Shumard, CISO of CIGNA. “With Aveksa’s Access Request and Change Manager, we can now more effectively manage the access change and delivery process while simultaneously helping to ensure that our compliance objectives are being met."
With more than 25,000 employees, CIGNA constitutes one of the largest investor owned health and related benefits organizations in the United States. CIGNA selected Aveksa to enable a business selfservice process for access change management that allows line of business managers and end users to request or modify access privileges while enforcing business policies and orchestrating changes across enterprise information resources. Through its deployment of Access Request and Change Manager, CIGNA will further extend its use of the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, which the organization is currently leveraging for enterprise-wide review and certification of user access.
“Access change management processes and controls present a significant challenge for most organizations that can only be solved with automation,” said Deepak Taneja, founder, president and CTO of Aveksa. “With Access Request and Change Manager, Aveksa is providing leading organizations like CIGNA with the automation and policy controls they need to deploy a business-friendly process for access change management that promotes increased efficiency, proactively manages access-related risk and helps enable them to achieve sustainable compliance.”
The Aveksa Access Governance Platform is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management which delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. The Access Governance Platform is comprised of Aveksa Compliance Manager, which automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements; Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance; and 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 such as CIGNA can 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 and change management across the entire enterprise.
About CIGNA
CIGNA (NYSE:CI), a global health service company, is dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and security. CIGNA Corporation's operating subsidiaries provide an integrated suite of medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and vision care benefits, as well as group life, accident and disability insurance, to approximately 46 million people throughout the United States and around the world. To learn more about CIGNA, visit www.cigna.com. To sign up for email alerts or an RSS feed of company news log on to http://newsroom.cigna.com/section_display.cfm?section_id=18.
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, energy/utility, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com
