KuppingerCole Leadership Compass - Access Governance (2013)
March 7, 2013
KuppingerCole names Courion a leader in access governance. The report states: “Courion definitely is amongst the vendors that should be taken into account when looking for an Access Governance solution. They show innovativeness and provide a feature-rich, established, and well-integrated platform."
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance (2012)
January 4, 2013
Download this valuable report in which Courion is named a leader for the second year in a row and use it as part of your vendor evaluation process.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Administration and Provisioning (2012)
January 4, 2013
For the sixth year in a row Courion is positioned in the leaders quadrant — to learn more about Gartner’s perspective on the market, ratings of key vendors and strengths and cautions for each one complete the form below to receive the report.
Ovum Technology Audit: Courion Access Risk Management – Access Assurance Suite and Access Insight
November 30, 2012
Ovum Technology Audits are independent product reviews carried out using Ovum’s evaluation model for the relevant technology area, supported by conversations with vendors, users, and service providers of the solution concerned, and in depth secondary research. This product review focuses on the Access Assurance Suite and Access Insight products from Courion.
KuppingerCole Leadership Compass - Identity Provisioning (2012)
October 15, 2012
KuppingerCole names Courion a leader in identity provisioning. The report states: “Overall, Courion has a very strong product offering with a broad feature set covering major areas of IAM today.” For details, download this informative analyst assessment of the IAM market.
Ovum's On the Radar: Courion Access Insight
June 1, 2012
"On the Radar" is part of Ovum's series of research notes that highlights up-and-coming vendors that bring innovative ideas, products, or business models to their markets. Ovum's view is that Access Insight provides clear differentiation from other mainstream IAM platform vendors by extending the company's identity-based access control coverage into the real-time risk management space.
Ovum's On the Radar: Courion Access Risk Management Suite
June 1, 2012
"On the Radar" is part of Ovum's series of research notes that highlights up-and-coming vendors that bring innovative ideas, products, or business models to their markets. Ovum's view of Courion's Access Risk Management Suite is that it tackles the cost of deployment and maintenance, which is a large and recognized problem with IdM. It will appeal to enterprises that have so far been deterred from deploying IdM systems and continue to rely on basic directories and access controls based on operating system functions.
451 Group: Impact Report, Access Insight (2012)
April 11, 2012
Industry analyst Steve Coplan reports on what could be characterized as the alpha release of Courion's Access Insight, designed to provide a set of analytics on the state of identity and access risk by running against live data. With the initial iteration of Access Insight, Courion is able to demonstrate the capabilities of a data warehouse hooked up to live sources of data, and how the analytics can support a more efficient management process, driving benefit to the business over time.
Kuppinger Cole Vendor Report: Courion Corporation (2011)
November 11, 2011
In this vendor research note Industry analyst Martin Kuppinger of Kuppinger Cole gives an in-depth review of Courion’s new “Access Risk Management” approach and solutions. Courion having organically grown its product portfolio from a traditional provisioning solution to a fully-fledged access governance solution has a very homogenous, well integrated set of products. This is in stark contrast to the “mix and match” of some other vendors who have acquired multiple companies with their respective products and have sometimes struggled to integrate those products into a homogenous platform.
451 Group: Impact Report
October 6, 2011
Industry analyst Steve Coplan reports on how Courion has reworked its product architecture to deliver a set of risk-based workflows and reporting based on identity and data classification analytics, introduced a set of pre-packaged configurations to reduce up-front costs, and launched SaaS based IAM with monthly, per-user pricing. Read the full report where Coplan says “This is a bold approach by Courion, with aggressive pricing coupled with a rethinking of how its technology is architected, delivered and utilized to serve the need to make risk mitigation an enterprise-wide closed-loop process.”
IDC Spotlight: Access Control and Certification: Critical Steps on the Road to Compliance
July 12, 2010
Sally Hudson, Research Director of IDC’s Security Products and Services Group, writes that IAM is the foundational technology for organizations that are building secure, compliant business processes and access control policies. This technology, in conjunction with other critical software such as security incident and event management (SIEM) and data loss prevention (DLP) technologies, forms a fabric of security and risk management to allow companies to meet governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Read how Courion's compliance management solutions enhance risk management by allowing business managers to examine user access rights, evaluate how they compare with policy, and quickly take corrective action. And how leveraging the operational expertise of business managers ensures stronger compliance with regulatory requirements.
