Courion to Present at 6th Annual API IT Security Conference for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry

October 26, 2011

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Company will offer practical advice for managing risk in today’s open environments and will discuss new Access Risk Management Suite during exhibition

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Courion® Corporation, the leader in identity and access management for access risk, will be speaking at 6th Annual API IT Security Conference for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry on Nov. 2. The conference will host more than 200 IT Security experts from the oil and gas industry, creating the opportunity to learn about the latest developments, share insights, and network with other IT security professionals.

Courion works with leading energy companies such as Spectra Energy, Duke Energy, Constellation Energy and Pepco, to name a few, to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right information and are doing the right things by:

Streamlining operations, reducing costs and improving energy delivery
Automating password management, user provisioning and access certification
Demonstrating user access is in compliance with NERC/FERC

Who: Kurt Johnson, Courion’s Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development

What: During the presentation, Courion will explore use cases and practical frameworks that will help oil and gas industry IT organizations identify, prioritize and more effectively manage the risk around access to company information and resources. The session will look at information-sharing environments including cloud computing, mobile computing, and collaborative solutions, like SharePoint and file shares, and examine risks and vulnerabilities inherently embedded in these solutions.

During the exhibition, conference attendees will be able to learn about the new Access Risk Management Suite recently announced by Courion. The Access Risk Management Suite is a single platform for managing user access to vital information by automating and integrating key IAM functions such as identity and access governance, user provisioning, and password management. In addition, Courion will also showcase Access Insight™ which constantly analyzes IAM and other security data from these applications and external sources to identify and quantify risks to vital information such as intellectual property, medical records, personally identifiable information and customer data.

Where: Westin Houston Memorial City; 945 Gessner Road; Houston, Texas.

When: The show takes place Nov. 2-3, 2011. The session will be held on Nov. 2 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

About Courion

Courion Corporation delivers software solutions that effectively and securely manage access risk. Fourteen million users across more than 500 organizations rely on Courion’s access risk management technology to align user access privileges with corporate and regulatory governance policies. Courion’s cloud and on-premise solutions provide a full range of identity and access management functionality while demonstrating compliance and achieving quick time-to-value. For more information about Westborough, Mass.-based Courion, visit www.courion.com or check out our blog at www.courion.com/blog.