Courion Corporation

Risk: See it, manage it and ultimately leverage it to make better decisions for your company

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The trend toward open IT systems has created some of the most spectacular examples of corporate theft of the last decade – take the recent data breach at UBS for example. Businesses have been dealing with risk for centuries. The difference now is that instead of figuring out the likelihood of a clipper ship sinking on the return trip from China, companies have to figure out the likelihood of someone accessing sensitive information they shouldn’t and doing something harmful with it.

Companies have hesitated to open their systems to outsiders and mobile users because they lacked the visibility to what would enable them to identify, quantify and manage access risk across all of their operations no matter the entry point. Software existed to automate some identity and access management (IAM) functions – user provisioning, access certification, password management, etc. – but not the ability to cost-effectively pull it together and analyze it in real time to assess changes in a company’s access risk profile.

From a series of recent surveys as well as data from industry analysts it’s pretty clear that the industry is facing two challenges to keep up with the business changes that are forcing more open access to their information:

• They need a comprehensive view of their Identity and Access data and activity.
• They need the ability to analyze the data to create real intelligence on where the critical risks are to the organization.

With a 30-day implementation time for user provisioning, access governance and access compliance, the ability to integrate usage data from SIEM systems and the delivery of an Access Intelligence Engine to analyze real-time access risk, Courion’s new Access Risk Management Suite is setting the bar on what IAM can do to help organizations better manage information access and make informed business decisions.