IN THE BOARDROOM™ with...

Mr. Art Coupe
Identity and Access Management
Computer Sciences Corporation
www.csc.com
NYSE:CSC

SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Art. Please give us an overview of your background and your role at CSC.

Art Coupe: As head of CSC’s identity management practice, I have overall responsibility for the development and delivery of identity management solutions to CSC’s Consulting Group clients. During my seven-year tenure at CSC, I have held management posts overseeing the development and deployment of identity management solutions and services for CSC’s Global Security Services clients, as well as directing the global deployment of a customized user provisioning and two-factor authentication system for a major Fortune 500 company.

Prior to joining CSC, I specialized in international operations for commercial and government entities.

SecurityStockWatch: Please give our audience an overview of the Identity and Access Management solutions provided by CSC and Sun Microsystems.

Art Coupe: CSC offers companies a world-class Identity and Access Management solution by combining its proven “end-to-end” identity and access management capabilities —from initial assessments and requirements definition, to solution design, development, deployment, and operations support -- with industry-leading identity management software such as those from Sun Microsystems. The solution provides complete life cycle management of user identities and system access privileges to meet compliance and security requirements, and helps organizations create and manage federated business relationships.

SecurityStockWatch: Are there one or two success stories or “wins” that you’d like to talk about?

Art Coupe: Yes, there is a client success that comes to mind that embodies the benefits we deliver as an end-to-end solution provider. A Fortune 500 company tapped CSC to assist them in developing a customized user provisioning application and two-factor authentication system to replace static passwords for all business critical computing systems. The scope was global and involved over 90,000 employees.

Over a three-year period CSC successfully designed, developed, and deployed the solution which now secures all of the client’s remote access, employee access to the IBM mainframe, SAP, HP servers, administrator access to the Unix operating system, as well as access to over 1,500 web applications and firewalls. The user provisioning application CSC deployed now manages over 100,000 unique global client user IDs. I’m pleased to note that the system is still in service at this client and is managed by CSC.

Currently we have a Sun Identity Manager implementation ongoing with a Federal Agency that is proceeding very well and have successfully deployed the solution for a client in the Aerospace/Defense Industry.

SecurityStockWatch: We understand that CSC and Sun Microsystems have a special event coming up in New York City on May 10th. What can you tell us about it? What is the agenda and the focus of this event? Where can our audience obtain more information about it if they would like to attend?

Art Coupe: We are very pleased with the opportunity to team with Sun Microsystems to host a forum on security and compliance issues for executives in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government, retail, utilities and other enterprise verticals.