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EMC acquires Aveksa, identity and access management firm

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BANGALORE, INDIA: As EMC expands its cloud servce, the data storage company has acquired privately held Aveksa Inc., an identity and access management player. Effective immediately, Aveksa will operate within EMC' RSA security division as part of RSA's Identity Trust Management product group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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RSA and Aveksa together will help give organizations the ability to automate the complete identity lifecycle of users helping turn traditional IAM systems into more agile, intelligent and scalable 'situational perimeters', claims the company in an official statement. With Aveksa, customers have a unified dashboard to manage, control, and deliver access, while enforcing identity and access policies across the enterprise and cloud, at a granular level.

Art Coviello, executive chairman and executive vice president, RSA, EMC Corporation, said: "Today's enterprises face significant challenges around identity and access management. The adoption of cloud-based IT infrastructures and the pervasive use of mobile means that security organizations are being asked to secure and provide access to assets they don't own, manage, or control. Without the deep intelligence able to provide insight into what users should and should not have access to, traditional tools that simply automate IAM leave organizations exposed to the risk of excessive privilege, data breaches and regulatory non-compliance."

Aveksa solutions are deployed by customers of all sizes across financial, healthcare, retail, energy/utility, telecommunications, transportation and manufacturing sectors. It is a comprehensive solution that spans across multiple, heterogeneous IT systems for both on-premise and SaaS systems, and is designed to be integrated into an enterprise' infrastructure.

Aveksa aligns with RSA's intelligence-driven security strategy, leveraging insight from roles, processes, and security-oriented big data to enable detection and response to real-time threats.

Vick Vaishnavi, chief executive officer, Aveksa Corp., said: "Over the years, our customers have benefited from Aveksa's comprehensive, business-driven IAM solutions. Together with RSA, we can continue our journey to adaptive identity management that addresses today's ever-evolving access challenges. We will continue to provide our customers and the broader market with best-in-class solutions that reduce business risk and enable efficient operations."

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