MANCHESTER, England, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enterprise Provisioning Suite Awarded Best in Category

Courion(R) Corporation (http://www.courion.com/), leaders in access 
governance (http://www.courion.com/solutions/access-assurance.html), 
provisioning (http://www.courion.com/solutions/user-access-provisioning.html) 
and compliance (http://www.courion.com/solutions/access-compliance-management.html), 
today announced that its Enterprise Provisioning Suite 
(http://www.courion.com/products/access-assurance-products.html) has been
recognised as Best Identity Management Solution at the SC Magazine Awards
Europe 2009 in London. A panel of judges comprising chief security officers
and high level IT security executives from a wide breadth of industries,
including representatives from Deloitte and KPMG, reviewed more than 300
entries before choosing the winners.

Now in its fourteenth year, these highly acclaimed and prestigious awards
have recognised security's key contributors and outstanding products for more
than a decade. The annual Awards highlight and showcase the best solutions,
while recognising achievement and innovation in the information security
industry. This award comes hot on the heels of Courion's Enterprise
Provisioning Suite being awarded "Best of 2008" by SC Magazine US.

"The SC Magazine Awards Europe is among the most highly coveted in the IT
security industry. Being awarded Best Identity Management solution is
recognition of Courion's ongoing commitment to leadership and innovation in
identity and access management," said Courion's UK General Manager, Stuart
Hodkinson. "During this economic downturn, Courion's fixed price solution
delivery model is resonating well with enterprise customers across Europe who
want to mitigate project cost over-run whilst maximising business success."

The Enterprise Provisioning Suite is an example of Access Assurance,
(http://www.courion.com/solutions/access-assurance.html) Courion's unique
approach to identity, access and compliance management, ensuring only the
right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the
right things. Access Assurance unifies Access Governance, Access Provisioning
and Access Compliance in the most complex, heterogeneous environments. This
comprehensive approach increases operational efficiency and transparency,
strengthens security, and improves compliance, while delivering the
industry's fastest time to value and lowest total cost of ownership.

For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners,
please visit http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Awards/section/341/

About Courion

Courion's award-winning Access Assurance solutions are used by more than
four hundred organizations and over 7.5 million users worldwide to quickly
and easily solve their most complex identity and access management (password
management, provisioning, and role management), risk and compliance
challenges. Courion's business-driven approach results in unparalleled
customer success by ensuring users' access rights and activities are
compliant with policy while supporting both security and business objectives.
For more information, please visit our website at courion.com, our blog at
blog.courion.com (http://blog.courion.com/) or on Twitter at
twitter.com/Courion (http://twitter.com/Courion).

To view this release online, go to:
http://www.courion.com/company/press_release.html?id=342

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Rachel Weeks                  Martin Brindley
    Courion Corporation           DMG Europe
    +1-508-661-0467               +44-1256-807360
                                  courion@daviesmurphy.com