Courion Hosts Industry's First Provisioning Users Group Conference.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003

CONVERGE Brings Together Courion Customers to Share Best Practices

for Maximizing Business Value from Identity Management Solutions

Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions, today announced it will host the industry's first provisioning users group conference, CONVERGE, on October 7-8, 2003 in Boston.

Courion customers from around the world will gather at the conference to share best practices for maximizing their return on investment and minimizing the total cost of ownership of their identity management solutions. They will hear from renowned industry analyst Roberta Witty of Gartner, who will provide her expertise on implementing user provisioning solutions in her presentation "Provisioning Landscape: Navigating Business Process Requirements & Access Rights for Your Identity Management Project."

"We're proud and pleased to be the first identity management vendor to achieve the critical mass of production customers necessary to demand a users group forum focused on how self-service provisioning and password management solutions maximize security policy automation and business value delivered," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO, Courion. "Courion customers are best in class organizations with top notch IT, security and help desk departments implementing and using our solutions. The benefit of their experience is something we leverage as best practices with our customers every day. Now, we are pleased to provide them with the opportunity to share their experiences maximizing our identity management solutions with each other in person."

Courion customers, including Children's Hospital Boston, Office Depot and The Boeing Company, will also present, covering such topics as achieving regulatory compliance and increased data security with integrated user provisioning and password management, and provisioning through self-service portals. Customers will share how they have successfully implemented Courion's identity management solutions to help them reduce costs, increase security and improve service.

Additionally, Courion customers will have the unique opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions with their peers to exchange ideas on best practices for driving end user adoption of identity management systems. They will also enjoy interactive sessions with Courion's executive and product management teams to provide input on Courion's future product development.

About Courion

Courion Corporation is a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions that help enterprises manage the access rights and credentials of employees, business partners and customers with more speed, more security and less cost. Courion's Identity Management Suite(TM), anchored by its AccountCourier(R) user provisioning and PasswordCourier(R) password management product lines, securely automates the resolution of common operational challenges such as user account setup and deletion and password reset and synchronization. Courion's non-invasive, self-service architecture enforces security policies, while providing measurable cost-savings, operational efficiencies and productivity improvements.

Courion's customers include industry leaders such as American Electric Power, The Boeing Company, Children's Hospital Boston, Fannie Mae, GE, Office Depot, SunTrust Banks, government institutions such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Census Bureau, and large not-for-profit organizations such as Kaiser Permanente. Courion is funded by QuestMark Partners, JMI Equity and other private investors. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com.

Courion, PasswordCourier and AccountCourier are registered trademarks of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.