PARIS – Evidian, the European leader in identity and access management, announced today that Gartner, Inc. has placed it in the challengers’ quadrant in the new 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management”. Gartner’s report analyses the web access management market and evaluates 11 solutions. Quadrant positions are based on each vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision.

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BIRMINGHAM – Evidian, the European leader for identity and access management, enhances Enterprise SSO, the single sign-on module of its IAM Suite offer, in order to reconcile emergency and security with functions specifically designed for hospitals and clinics.

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Vigil launches recruitment push for new channel partners in government and health sectors

LONDON – Specialist security distributor Vigil Software has signed a new distribution contract with leading security vendor Evidian, to build channel sales for Evidian IAM Suite, a range of identity and access management solutions. The move marks the start of a concerted push by the distributor to recruit UK channel partners to sell and support the security vendor’s product range. The initiative will focus particularly on resellers specialising in the health, government and police sectors, where compliance requirements are driving a surge in demand for secure access, authentication and identity management solutions.

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Findings indicate that operational risk control is the major driver in banks’ IT spending, and over 50% will increase spending in IT security. But while identity and access management is an important driver of IT investment, inhibitors to wider adoption – often exaggerated – remain.

PARIS – Evidian, the identity and access management (IAM) company, announced the release of a European research paper on banks’ approaches to identity and access management. The Datamonitor paper is based on surveys and interviews performed in end 2008 and early 2009 among top IT managers of European banks.

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LUXEMBOURG – Evidian, the European identity and access management leader, announces that media company RTL Group has chosen its Enterprise SSO single sign-on software. The software solution was first deployed in its holding company to secure user access; 600 employees and journalists in RTL Group’s Luxembourg site now access their applications easily and securely after a single authentication via Evidian’s software.

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Council staff use Enterprise SSO solution as core part of Council’s compliance with GSi Code of Connection

WINCHESTER (UK), September 3 2009 — Winchester City Council has deployed Enterprise SSO from Evidian, the European leader in identity and access management, to simplify access for staff to multiple applications while increasing security. The solution was supplied by integrator AppSpeed.

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PARIS - Evidian, the identity and access management leader, and Gemalto, the digital security leader, announce today that they have reinforced their enterprise security partnership.

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LUXEMBOURG – P&T Luxembourg, the largest telecom and postal services operator in Luxembourg, has selected Evidian Enterprise SSO as part of its integrated “cloud computing” IS outsourcing offer. After a single authentication, P&T Luxembourg’s customers will easily access to all their applications on virtual desktops.

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Employee ‘password overload’ is tipping point for finger vein scanning technology

LONDON – Hitachi, a pioneer of finger-vein scanning technology, is to integrate its Finger Vein H1 identification device with the leading Evidian IAM Suite 8, Enterprise Single Sign-On (E-SSO) technology.

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PARIS – Evidian, the European identity and access management leader, announces that more than 2 million licenses of its Enterprise SSO solution are in use worldwide. This was achieved during the successful installation of the first users of GIE Synergie, part of France’s Crédit Agricole banking group.

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