Courion Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning 2H07

Business Wire, August 27, 2007

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion[R] Corporation, the provisioning experts for results-driven operations, today announced it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 2H071. Courion's placement in the Leaders Quadrant is based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. This Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning provides guidance for organizations seeking to evaluate the leading providers of security infrastructure products and services, including key offerings, differentiators and strategies.

Gartner defines Leaders for this report as "high-momentum vendors (based on sales and "mind share" growth) with emerging track records in user provisioning. Business investments position them well for the future. Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market. They can change the course of the industry. Leading vendors should not be default choices for every buyer, however, and clients are warned not to assume that they should buy only from the Leaders quadrant. Indeed, leaders may not necessarily offer the best products for every customer project; however, they provide solutions that offer relatively lower risk and provide effective integration, with their own solutions as well as competitors."

"We believe being placed in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant is recognition and significant validation of the benefits of Courion's quick time to value and low total cost of ownership approach to provisioning," said Chris Zannetos, president and CEO, Courion. "These advantages over the traditional "Identity Stack" vendors have led to an unmatched record of customer success - measured by increased operational efficiency and business agility, as well as improved security and policy compliance."

Courion's software solutions help results-driven companies automate the manual processes associated with user provisioning and managing access rights to IT resources based on corporate policy. Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite[TM] solution automates the manual practices associated with tasks such as user provisioning, role management, access compliance and password management, to optimize user productivity, strengthen security and enforce policies. It includes specific modules that can be implemented separately or as part of the full suite, and is considered highly flexible and customizable, without requiring new infrastructure investments or lengthy implementation and consulting work.

According to Gartner, "the 2H07 update to the User Provisioning Magic Quadrant includes additional focus on ease of deployment, ongoing operations, and maintenance and vendor management. It also puts additional emphasis on marketing vision and execution of the participants and evaluates sales and advertising execution as part of the overall experience."

About Courion

Courion is the Enterprise Provisioning and Access Compliance Expert for results-driven organizations. Built on market-proven technology, Courion's software solutions streamline operations and automate business processes to simultaneously achieve cost, security and service quality results. Courion's innovative approach eliminates the complexity and barriers to provisioning and compliance adoption, resulting in an unparalleled track record of customer success. Courion was recently named to IT Week's 2006 list of Top 50 Technology Innovators and recognized as an Info Security 2007 "Hot Company." For more information, please visit our website at www.courion.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Gartner Research, "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 2H07," by Earl Perkins and Roberta J. Witty. August 23, 2007.

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