HIMSS - San Jose - February 26, 2007 – Apere, Inc., developers of IMAG, the first Identity Managed Access Gateway to integrate Identity Management (IdM) and Information Access technologies in a single security appliance, today released the Apere RapidConnector Framework (RCF), a unique application connectivity technology designed to reduce the cost and facilitate the of integration of business-critical applications with an Identity Management (IdM) suite for medium enterprises, and regulated industries including the health care and financial segments. IMAG and RCF are fully complimentary to all industry-leading datacenter IdM solutions on the market today and enable organizations to build application connectivity on the fly with administrative guidance. This allows organizations to quickly and cost effectively manage all enterprise applications, and realize an immediate return on their investments. The combination of IMAG and RCF offers budget strapped, bandwidth limited, regulated organizations an easy to use turnkey solution for deploying an IdM solution in less than a week, significantly reducing provisioning and help desk expenses.

RCF also eliminates the time and expertise required to support heterogeneous systems and custom applications, as well as the costs typically associated with using an application programming interface (API) or software intervention to manage the identities for these applications, enabling IT Administrators to easily add new users and help their organizations meet compliance requirements.

CRC Health Corporation, the nation's largest for-profit chemical dependency and related behavioral health organization deployed Apere's IMAG to quickly, effectively, and affordably control access to their client's private information. "Our organization was experiencing explosive growth in the number of applications and disparate identity stores resulting from acquisitions," said CRC Health CTO Jay Raimondi. "Armed with RapidConnector, Apere's IMAG was the only technology that could gather and consolidate access privilege information from all our applications to ensure compliance under reasonable budgetary and time constraints."

In addition, RCF facilitates the deployment of, and interfaces with, a wide range of business critical network devices, including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, network access and admissions systems, routers, and switches. RCF helps to enforce or revoke access to these devices by applying application layer identity information to the network layer policies, thereby controlling network access by an individual to an internal network or internet, delivering improved security and compliance capabilities.

Corsa Network Technologies is the security-focused solutions provider who first introduced CRC Health to Apere's technology. "We're seeing a strong need for identity management in the marketplace, the challenge was finding a vendor with a turnkey appliance that can be implemented with limited expertise," said Corsa President James Volpe. "Apere's solutions have allowed us to tap into a large market of companies who need identity management, but don't have the resources required by other vendors to adopt the technology."

Apere Services and Support
Apere offers a wide array of professional services which are delivered through Apere’s world class Team Partners. The services offered include Identity Risk Assessment, the Custom Connector Factory, and IMAG Integration Services. The company also offers toll free 24 x 7 support for one year with each IMAG purchase.

IMAG Pricing and Availability
IMAG is now available through Apere’s world class Team Partners. MSRP starts at US $15,000.

About Apere, Inc.
Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Apere was founded in 2004 by successful serial entrepreneurs who leveraged their experience and expertise in the security, IC design and software markets to create the industry’s first Identity Managed Access Gateway designed to address the security of sensitive data while significantly reducing the management burden placed on IT staff. The IMAG product line is available exclusively through Apere’s Team Partners who are certified security experts with the knowledge and resources needed to solve enterprise security issues with the IMAG security appliance platform. For more information, visit the company website at www.apere.com, contact Apere via phone at 877-875-9476 or via email at sales@apere.com.

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