BindView Extends Security Administration and Policy Enforcement Capabilities of bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange Server

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001

bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange Ensures the

Integrity of Exchange Environments with BindView's

Exclusive ActiveAdmin Capabilities

BindView Corporation (NASDAQ: BVEW), a leading provider of IT administration and security management solutions, announced today bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange v2.0, a comprehensive management solution for Microsoft Exchange environments. As part of the bv-Control Security Management Suite, this product provides customers with innovative assessment, analysis and administration capabilities for their Exchange environments. With the inclusion of the ActiveAdmin(R) feature in this new release, bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange v2.0 provides Exchange administrators with extended vulnerability assessment capabilities, configuration and security policy enforcement features and enhanced productivity of Exchange administration. This solution allows customers to prepare for migration to Exchange 2000, while helping them deal with the complexities of managing a heterogeneous Exchange environment.

BindView's exclusive ActiveAdmin(R) feature enables bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange to "find and fix" numerous security vulnerabilities and threats in the Exchange environment. Automated action for compliance with security policies, such as extraction of suspicious file types for analysis, can be performed and immediate policy enforcement applied as appropriate across the organization.

"The addition of the ActiveAdmin capability to bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange provides customers with a robust solution for security, configuration and administration of Exchange environments," said Robert Marcus, Exchange product manager for Microsoft. "BindView continues to raise the standard in security management solutions for messaging administrators."

"After successfully using BindView solutions to safely and effectively manage every aspect of our Microsoft Exchange environment, we are anxiously awaiting the new and enhanced bv-Control for Exchange 2.0 product," said Jeff Parker, manager offsite systems at Carriage Services. "This version's new interactive capabilities will give IT administrators a total and truly comprehensive management tool for Exchange, allowing us to find and fix security problems quickly and easily. I believe that we will be able to address and resolve issues in minutes that used to take hours or even days!"

Benefits of bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange

With the addition of the ActiveAdmin features, bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange provides Exchange administrators with the following benefits:

-- Improved efficiency of the Exchange environment through increased consistency of configuration. bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange improves the efficiency of Exchange management by enabling administrator to set boundaries on the size of messages and storage limits of mailboxes, thereby reducing message delivery times and creating more storage space on Exchange servers.

-- Automated actions for policy enforcement. bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange provides comprehensive assessment and audit of security threats and vulnerabilities, in addition to compliance of legal and regulatory requirements, such as e-mail content and e-mail archiving policies. With the ActiveAdmin feature, bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange promotes the continuous integrity and consistency of Exchange environments by enabling automatic enforcement of changing corporate and legal policies.

-- Increased productivity for Exchange administrators. With bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange's centralized administration and enterprise scalability, Exchange administrators are able to manage multiple, disparate Exchange environments of fluctuating size and scope. bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange dramatically reduces the time needed by administrators to modify specific attributes and copy, move or delete items in mailboxes or public folders.

-- Increased security of Exchange environments. With bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange, administrators can now eliminate all e-mails in mailboxes and folders that contain viruses or otherwise inappropriate content immediately upon discovery of its location.

"Messaging security is a critical challenge facing today's companies as they find themselves increasingly vulnerable to security threats such as viruses in e-mail attachments," said Maurene Caplan Grey, senior research analyst at Gartner. "IT requires comprehensive administration and security management toolsets that will allow them to resolve any vulnerabilities at the time they are discovered."

Pricing and Availability

bv-Control for Exchange is available today and is priced at $995 per server and $12.95 per mailbox, and includes all components for on-demand reporting and real-time monitoring.

"bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange is an extension of BindView's bv-Control product family of comprehensive security management solutions," said Kevin Weiss, chief marketing officer at BindView. "Security threats in today's workplace are both internal and external, and bv-Control for Microsoft Exchange gives IT administrators the ability to secure their messaging environments, to extend the integrity of corporate IT networks, and to include servers and applications."