State Street Corporation Executive Named Information Security Executive New England 2005; Courion Customers Recognized for Outstanding Leadership in Information Security

Business Wire, June 20, 2005

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise provisioning solutions, today announced that Denise DeAmore, senior vice president and chief information security officer of State Street Corporation, was named the winner of the Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year in New England Award 2005 and also received the New England People's Choice Award(TM) DeAmore was selected from among 12 nominees of New England's leading security pioneers at the premier information security executive recognition event held on the evening of June 16, 2005 at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston, Mass. Paul Scheib, chief information security officer at Children's Hospital Boston was also named as one of five finalists for this prestigious award.

The ISE New England Awards honor the achievements of today's information security pioneers and recognize excellence in managing enterprise-wide network and Internet security systems in the New England region of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The ISE Nominees were evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges based on information they submitted outlining their effectiveness in managing internal security organizations, mentoring and motivating staff members and developing innovative security strategies and solutions to meet business challenges. The ISE People's Choice Award reflects the community's respect for security leadership. The winner is selected from among the nominees through a poll of registered attendees at the Awards Gala.

DeAmore is responsible for developing and managing State Street's Corporate Information Security Program, including strategy, policy and standards, and directing the program's successful deployment across the company's global business and technology infrastructure. With $9.5 trillion in assets under custody and $1.4 trillion under management (as of March 31, 2005), State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading specialist in providing institutional investors with investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. Experts in their fields, DeAmore and her team support the company's many constituents to provide State Street with quantifiable improvements in information security, risk management and process efficiency. Ms. DeAmore and her organization support nearly 20,000 global internal users and nearly 3,000 external customers through the corporation's www.my.statestreet.com customer portal.

DeAmore has worked with Courion Corporation to implement an identity management solution to protect and control user access to financial and personal information, meet various regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, support ongoing organizational changes and to efficiently facilitate business operations across its global enterprise. Leveraging the automation and self-service capabilities of Courion's PasswordCourier(R) solution, State Street has reduced administrative involvement, while creating cost savings for the company.

"Courion congratulates Denise DeAmore and Paul Scheib on these prestigious and much deserved honors," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO of Courion Corporation. "It is due to the pioneering spirits of professionals such as DeAmore and Scheib that critical and lasting contributions are made to information technology and the business community."

About Executive Alliance and ISE Awards

Executive Alliance is the premier organization for creating leadership-recognition forums that honor and recognize outstanding achievements of executives in different industries. These forums facilitate the building of deep relationships within a network of peers, provide visibility for executives and their companies, and offer access and insight into the people leading these industries. Through an extensive platform of collaborative events, which include Industry Award Events, Summits, Executive Roundtables, Executive Forums, Private Receptions, and Customized Programs, Executive Alliance creates interactive forums for bringing together top executives and innovators in their field.

Based upon the success of the Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year Award(TM), the ISE Award Program Series(TM) was launched in 2005 to include the ISE Southeast Award (Atlanta, GA), ISE Midwest Award (Chicago, IL), ISE New England Award (Boston, MA), ISE Tri-State Award (New York, NY) and the ISE National Award (Washington, DC) to recognize outstanding leadership and exemplary achievement in the field of information security. For more information on this prestigious award visit www.infosecaward.com

About Courion

Courion enables complex organizations to rapidly respond to constant change. Unlike traditional identity and access management technologies, Courion's Dynamic Community(TM)-based Provisioning empowers organizations to deliver transparent compliance, sustained efficiencies and improved business velocity, by effectively adapting to and leveraging their changing business operations, technology infrastructure and organization. Over 250 enterprise customers worldwide including 60 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning, password management, industry and regulatory compliance, profile management, and digital certificate management. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com.