Courion to increase staff by over 40%

Courion Corporation, a US based company engaged in access governance, compliance and provisioning announced that it has moved its India Technology Center, Courion IT Private Ltd, to a larger facility in Pune, India, to support the company's global growth and to meet increasing customer demand.

In addition to its research and development capabilities, Courion has added professional services and local customer support staff to the growing Pune office to serve the needs of Courion's global customer base, ensuring customer service support 24/7.

The office relocation comes on the heels of record financial performance for Courion in the fiscal year 2010.

This past year, Courion experienced the highest sales and revenue numbers in the company's history and grew its global employee base by 15 percent.

"We are global leaders in identity and access governance and we plan to grow our operations both in Pune and worldwide by over 40 per cent in 2011. As Courion builds its services, as well as development presence in Pune, the company intends to invest significantly in marketing and sales to enter the Asia Pacific market in 2012," said Christopher Zannetos, president and CEO, Courion.

Courion IT Private Ltd which opened in June of 2009, focuses on research and development for Courion’s Access Assurance Suite™ solution and is also tasked with expanding the company's industry-leading library of connectors, further improve support for specific industries such as health care, financial services, retail and others.

Courion’s Access Assurance Suite enables customers to demonstrate compliance, minimize security risks, prevent data breaches by defining access policies, assess how user access and activity affect risk, enforce automated access administration policies to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information and verify that user access is in accordance with these policies and also in remediating access.