Doug Mow Chief Marketing Officer Courion

Courion Corporation, a leader in risk-driven identity and access management (IAM), has announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named:

• Courion’s Access Insight a Silver winner of the 2013 Global Excellence Awards in Most Innovative Security Product (Software) of the Year.
• CourionLive a Silver winner in the awards’ SaaS/Cloud Solutions category.
• Courion’s HCR ManorCare customer story, a Bronze winner in the Best Deployments and Case Studies, USA, category.

The security industry celebrated its 9th Annual 2013 Global Excellence Awards in San Francisco by honoring excellence in every facet of the industry, including products, people behind the successes and best companies.

More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2013 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners. Winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on February 27, 2013, in San Francisco attended by the finalists, judges and industry peers.

Courion’s Access Insight, an Identity and Access Intelligence (IAI) product, pinpoints risks in enterprise blind spots in real-time by applying proprietary analytics to the flood of data produced by everyday computing activities. For example, HCR ManorCare has deployed Access Insight to manage risk of improper access to its systems and resources across 500 health care facilities in 32 states. With Access Insight, a Chief Information Security Officer can visually observe areas of access risk that are driving business risk in real-time and take immediate action to remediate those threats.

“Access Insight ensures that the right people are doing the right things with their access privileges, and ferrets out needle-in-the-haystack risks even when no one is looking for them,” said Doug Mow, Chief Marketing Officer. “We are pleased that Info Security Products Guide has recognized Courion as a leading authority in Identity and Access Intelligence with this silver award for Most Innovative Security Product (Software) of 2013.”

Info Security Products Guide sponsors leading conferences and expos worldwide and plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow's technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and market research that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security.

Courion Corporation is the pioneer of risk-driven identity and access management. Seventeen 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 real-time identity and access management functionality while demonstrating compliance and achieving quick time-to-value.