Courion's Access Assurance Suite helps enterprises ensure that only the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things.  By gaining a holistic view of their user access, customers are able to mitigate risk from inappropriate access and streamline compliance processes, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership in the identity and access management (IAM) industry, it adds.
 
The Pune technology center will support the company's Courion Connector Program by adding to an already industry-leading library of more than 250 connectors. These connectors integrate the Access Assurance Suite with key enterprise applications to further improve support for specific industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and others. 
 
"Courion's position in the IAM and overall security markets has enabled it to grow even as competitors and other industries have lost market share during the global economic recession.  By expanding into India and increasing its research and development investment, Courion is bolstering its core technology and extending its leadership role," said Shishir Khedkar in Pune on Friday, director of development for Courion IT Private Ltd. "Pune's rich talent pool of tech-savvy engineers makes it the perfect place to set up shop, and Courion plans to grow its personnel base here to about 40 employees in 2010."  
 
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, the company adds.