Courion er førende inden for Identity and Access Management, Compliance og Provisioning.

Courion har vundet flere priser for deres Access Assurance-løsninger, som i dag anvendes af over 14 millioner brugere fordelt på 500 organisationer på verdensplan. Courion forretningsmæssige tilgang til kundernes problemstillinger resulterer i enestående kundesucces ved at sikre brugernes adgang, og at deres rettigheder er i overensstemmelse med virksomhedens interne politik. Derved støtter Courion op om virksomhedens sikkerhed samt forretningsmæssige målsætninger.

Courion sikrer, at kun de rigtige personer har adgang til de rigtige ressourcer, og at deres rettigheder er korrekte. Courion har fokus på at forstå virksomhedens forretningsmæssige krav og arbejdsgange.

Courion blev grundlagt i 1996, hvor de indførte PasswordCourier, der blev branchens første selvbetjeningsprodukt til nulstilling af adgangskode og password.

I modsætning til andre udbydere af identitets-og adgangsstyring er Courion istand til at levere målbare forretningsmæssige resultater.

Courions Access Risk Management-løsning kombinerer de automatiserede IAM-funktioner (Identity and Access Management) * med analyser i en enkel samlet løsning. Ved at integrere risiko-profilering og provisionering med attestering, giver Access Risk Management Suiten brugerne mulighed for at håndtere adgangsrisikoen så snart de er identificeret. 

*) Provisionering og administration af brugere, bruger-roller og -profiler, overholdelse af standarter samt administration af passwords.

Mange virksomheder har dagligt udfordringer med, at deres medarbejderes behov for adgang til interne it-systemer løbende bliver ændret. Dette er ofte i forbindelse med nye jobfunktioner og diverse projekter. Medarbejdernes adgang og rettigheder er egentligt et dynamisk element, som bør justeres jævnligt, så de til en hver tid reflektere de funktioner, som den enkelte medarbejder besidder.

At skulle ændre og justere adgang og rettigheder for hver enkelt bruger på tværs af alle it-systemer, er for det meste en uoverskuelig og meget tidskrævende proces. Derfor beholder de enkelte brugere ofte deres rettigheder fra tidligere jobfunktioner, og man risikere derved - over tid - at brugere får betydelig flere beføjelser og adgang, end hvad de egentligt burde have. Dette udgøre en reel sikkerhedsrisiko for følsomme arbejdsgange og informationer. Men faktisk er håndtering af ovenstående udfordringer kun en lille del af de fordele, der ligger i en velimplementeret IDM-løsning - tidsbesparelser, processoptimering og gennemsigtighed er ligeledes fordele, du opnår ved en sådan løsning.

• Oprettelse af brugere ét sted
• Medarbejdernes brugerprofiler og rettigheder defineres automatisk ud fra medarbejderens rolle i organisationen
• Sikkerhedspolitikker og interne retningslinjer kan nemt overholdes og anskueliggøres
• Øget effektivitet og besparelser ved oprettelse og nedlæggelse af brugere
• Brugeradministrationen samles ét sted, og ændringer kan foretages i én arbejdsgang
• Integration til alle interne it-systemer
• Self service password funktion, så medarbejderne selv kan nulstille passwords

Læs mere om de enkelte produkter nedenfor:

  Identity and Access Management Solutions

  Compliance Management

  Role Management

  User Provisioning

  Password Management

Se også Courions blog http://blog.courion.com/

Courion

Courion Access Assurance Suite v.8.0 (as of December 2009) — Courion AccountCourier, RoleCourier, PasswordCourier, ComplianceCourier and CertificateCourier.

Courion is the only pure-play IAM vendor in the Leaders quadrant. It continues to innovate and grow, in spite of challenging economic conditions. Courion focuses on simplicity and enabling business users. It consistently performs well in proofs of concept compared with larger IAM players.

Courion's focus is on simplifying IAM and making it more business-friendly through its "access assurance" messaging and the increasing number of IAI products and integration options that it offers.

While approximately 75% of its customers are those with less than 25,000 users, Courion has delivered solutions for larger customers, scaling to over 1 million production users. To stay competitive with large portfolio vendors (that is, Oracle, IBM, CA and Novell), Courion leverages a partnership model that includes RSA, The Security Division of EMC, for access management; Imprivata for ESSO; Cyber-Ark Software for shared account/privileged account management; Citrix Systems for enabling Citrix XenApp provisioning; and others. Courion has extended its integration capabilities to include data loss prevention and user activity management (SIEM and log analysis) products from companies like RSA and Symantec. Courion continues to expand its relationship with EMC and is adding new resellers worldwide. Courion's solutions work with cloud-based applications, and it participates in SaaS with its partners Identropy and Accenture, showing continued innovation.

Strengths
Courion has a fixed-cost implementation strategy. It requires rigorous preproject scoping and customer interaction, and Courion's track record is good.

Courion usually demonstrates a low ratio of product cost to deployment cost — generally in the 1-to-1 range. It has the lowest ratio of any vendor in the Leaders quadrant.

Courion is innovating the provisioning connector market. Its fixed price per connector is comparatively low, and it charges the same price for new custom connectors as it does for already existing connectors.

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Courion is one of the few vendors in the study to deliver an in-house-architected solution. As a result, Courion customers are able to achieve "out of the box" integration for many use cases.

Courion products are built with extensibility in mind, and they work well in complex, heterogeneous environments.

Cautions
Courion's competitors continue to improve by adding many features similar to Courion's. The competition is always a step or two behind, and maintaining innovation pace and consistency in an increasingly commoditizing market will be challenging.

Courion still faces name recognition issues. Other larger and formative brand names immediately come to mind when customers begin their IAM product searches. As such, Courion may be inadvertently overlooked in an organization's RFI and/or RFP process.

Courion lacks the global reach of major competitors in terms of marketing, sales and support, and it is increasingly dependent on a network of predeployment and postdeployment partners outside of North America. Increased sales mean that Courion will need to transfer its best-in-class planning and deployment skills to those partners.