PricewaterhouseCoopers and Aveksa Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Access Risk and Compliance Management Solutions for Enterprises

Business Wire, Jan 14, 2008

Industry Alliance Combines Advisory Services and Leading Access Governance Technology

WALTHAM, Mass. -- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), and Aveksa, the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced a strategic alliance to help enterprise clients simplify and automate access compliance and role management initiatives. This alliance, which combines the strengths of a global leader in business advisory services and a leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, responds to the market demand for an automated, sustainable approach to access governance that reduces access risk, complexity and cost.

Through this alliance, PwC professionals will leverage their extensive experience in governance, risk, compliance and security solutions to help clients develop a strategy and implement the capabilities necessary for governing user access to information resources while achieving compliance objectives. PwC's proprietary access control methodology can be leveraged to help clients solve identity and access management challenges across the enterprise. PwC practice professionals have hands-on experience with the Aveksa Access Governance platform, which can help clients define and address business and IT requirements for effective access risk and compliance management.

"PwC helps clients achieve a consistent approach to access governance across their entire enterprise," said Mickey Roach, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Aveksa's capabilities in access compliance automation and role lifecycle management can help support sustainable compliance while helping minimize the business and legal risks associated with providing user access to information resources."

When working together with Aveksa to help clients, PwC will assist with Aveksa Access Governance implementation and will deliver business advisory services associated with the following governance, risk, compliance and security areas:

* Enterprise access and identity management strategy

* Enterprise role engineering methodology and governance

* Compliance services including segregation of duties development and access certification/re-certification

* Integration of role management with identity management technologies and processes

"Aveksa's alliance with PwC provides our joint customers with advisory services to help address the challenges of governing access," said Pamela Cyr, vice president of business development at Aveksa. "Our alliance relationship brings together leading practice methodologies from PwC with best-of-breed technology from Aveksa, enabling organizations to achieve their access governance, compliance and risk management objectives."

PwC and Aveksa are launching the alliance with a series of thought leadership programs designed to educate the market on emerging access governance methodologies and technologies.

About Aveksa

Aveksa provides a comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Fortune 200 organizations in financial services, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 146,000 people in 150 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.

"PricewaterhouseCoopers" refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.