Courion Selected by SunTrust for Enterprise User Provisioning.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003

Courion(R) Corporation, a leader in identity management solutions, today announced that SunTrust Banks, Inc., one of America's largest commercial banks, has selected Courion's AccountCourier(TM) for enterprise user provisioning. The deployment of AccountCourier will complement SunTrust's existing implementation of Courion's enterprise password management solution, PasswordCourier(R).

"Our goals in implementing this technology are to improve our access management process and to reduce risk," said David Rowan, group vice president and director of Information Security, SunTrust Banks, Inc. "AccountCourier offers the flexibility to help meet our security needs and our business objectives."

AccountCourier's user provisioning policies enable authorized IT and business managers to securely create, enable, disable, delete, add and change users' login IDs and account attributes on almost any enterprise system, application or Web portal. Unlike competitive offerings, AccountCourier's IdentityLink(TM) technology connects to any number of existing authoritative identity stores for quick policy setup; allows customers to define multiple provisioning policies to suit the needs of different business units; combines user, role, and rule-based provisioning for fast implementation; and restricts access to policies, available provisioning actions and groups of users who can be provisioned for delegated or true self-service provisioning. To manage IT access rights for its employees, SunTrust will utilize AccountCourier's mix of agentless and agent-based provisioning connectors, as well as the Rapid Development Kit (RDK) to support its custom applications.

"This engagement signifies the market need for integrated password management and user provisioning, as well as Courion's arrival as a provisioning leader," said Chris Zannetos, CEO, Courion. "We continue to see enterprise customers express strong interest in our family of identity management solutions, which help them reduce costs, increase security, and improve employee productivity. We look forward to helping SunTrust achieve the same production benefits with AccountCourier that they have already realized with PasswordCourier."

About Courion

Courion Corporation is the 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, anchored by its AccountCourier(TM) user provisioning and PasswordCourier(R) password management product lines, secures and streamlines the resolution of common business problems such as password reset and new user account set up. Courion's rules-based technology automates manual identity management processes by aligning information security policies with business operations and by connecting to existing IT infrastructure for fast deployment and rapid ROI.

Courion's customers include industry leaders such as The Boeing Company, Cummins, Inc., Dell Computer, GE, Raymond James Financial Services, SunTrust Banks, Target Corporation, 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 [phone] or visit www.courion.com.

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