Aveksa Announces Support for Sun Identity Management Solutions.

Eliminates Manual Processes to Deliver a Comprehensive View of All User Entitlements and Roles across the Enterprise for Efficient Compliance and Risk Management

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Aveksa (www.aveksa.com), a leading provider of automated security compliance solutions, today announced support for Sun Microsystems Identity Management solutions, including Sun Java Systems Identity Manager and Directory Server Enterprise Edition. With Aveksa Compliance Manager, organizations can automate the collection of all user account and provisioning information from the Sun Identity Management products and correlate it with entitlement and role information collected from other applications and access enforcement infrastructure, enabling the deployment of an auditable, strategic business process that enforces accountability and provides evidence of compliance.

"Because Aveksa Compliance Manager can handle millions of entitlements and thousands of applications, it can easily meet the implementation needs of large scale Sun Identity Management implementation for scalability, application security, and data security," said Philip Popick, Practice Manager, Security and Identity Management at SDG Corporation, a leading global strategy and services firm. "Aveksa has created an attractive offering for our customers using Sun Identity Management solutions that they can quickly deploy for a fully integrated and automated view of users, entitlements and roles."

By combining all user account and provisioning information from Sun Identity Management solutions with the entitlement and role information from other applications and access enforcement infrastructure, Aveksa Compliance Manager provides unmatched visibility into the true state of all entitlements and roles across an organization. This comprehensive view enables companies to extend the functionality of their Identity Management deployments beyond reviewing user accounts to the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of all entitlements and all business and IT roles across the enterprise. In addition, it enables the definition of new roles that can serve as the basis for user provisioning processes with Sun Identity Manager.

Using Aveksa Compliance Manager, organizations can automate access certifications and deliver a closed loop, end-to-end workflow for change management and remediation. Aveksa Compliance Manager now integrates with Sun Identity Manager to automate compliance remediation that requires changes to user accounts managed by Sun Identity Manager.

"Accurately determining whether corporate-wide security policies and compliance objectives are being met requires substantial manual work to supplement the information about user accounts and roles provided by even the most comprehensive identity management systems," said Deepak Taneja, CEO of Aveksa. "This process, which requires the manual collection of identity, entitlement and role information from other systems and applications, is labor intensive, prone to error and exposes companies to risk. By supporting Sun Identity Management products, Aveksa is providing enterprises with the ability to automate these efforts and leverage their existing technology investments to realize new benefits for effective identity and access governance, risk and compliance."

About Aveksa

Aveksa delivers the only enterprise-class security risk and compliance management solution that automates access rights monitoring, compliance reporting and remediation. Aveksa enables IT security and compliance teams to balance the pressures of managing company security and meeting corporate compliance objectives while drastically reducing the costs associated with attaining sustainable compliance.

Aveksa was founded by identity management and security compliance experts who understand how to help organizations effectively deal with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA and Basel II. Aveksa headquarters are located in Waltham, Mass. For more information, visit www.aveksa.com.