BindView Receives Top Honor from Windows & .NET Magazine; bv-Control for Windows 2000 Named Product of the Year by Magazine Readers

Business Wire, Sept 16, 2002

Business & Technology Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2002

BindView Corporation (NASDAQ: BVEW), a leading provider of IT security management solutions, today announced that it's been awarded the coveted Windows & .NET Magazine Readers' Choice Award for Product of the Year.

In a competition where the winner was determined by write-in vote only, readers selected BindView's bv-Control for Windows 2000 solution for this top honor. The bv-Control for Windows 2000 product is a proactive security management solution that helps secure, automate and lower the cost of managing Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows .NET platforms and directories.

"The first annual Windows & .NET Magazine Readers' Choice Awards were developed as a way for readers to choose and recommend the best technology products in the industry," said Dave Bernard, custom media editorial director, Windows & .NET Magazine. "The Product of the Year category is a unique competition within the Readers' Choice Awards as it is determined by write-in vote only."

BindView's bv-Control for Windows 2000 solution helps to reduce security vulnerabilities by performing enterprise-wide assessment, and helps ensure the consistency and accuracy of network configurations. The bv-Control for Windows solution provides system administrators with software to perform security checks that detect vulnerabilities within a network. Upon identifying security risks, administrators can fix many critical issues immediately.

"With many of our 5,000 customers benefiting from the bv-Control for Windows product, we have heard first hand about the product's value to our customers," said Chris Wilburn, director, Microsoft Strategies, BindView. "Being named Product of the Year by the readers of Windows & .NET Magazine is further testament to the quality of our security management solutions and the company's overall commitment to providing the most comprehensive security administration, configuration management and vulnerability assessment solutions available for Microsoft platforms, directories and applications."

Key features included in bv-Control for Windows 2000 include:

- ActiveAdmin Automation Tool - identifies security problems and configuration updates, and completes the process by helping to fix vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.

- BindView Security Adviser - measures compliance with the latest Microsoft security bulletins, delivers forensic analysis on non-compliant machines and provides a link to the Microsoft site for patches. Platforms supported include Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and IIS.

- Enhanced Reporting capabilities - leverages a distributed architecture to retrieve information from far corners of the network and allows administrators to drill down into specific details without scripts of programming code. RAZOR(R), the award-winning BindView security research team, designs bv-Control pre-defined report templates and delivers best practices and security information.

"Few people know more about the best values in Windows technology products and services than Windows & .NET Magazine readers--the people who actually do the buying. By voting for the most outstanding product, IT professionals have rewarded bv-Control with excellence in the Windows market," said Janet Robbins, editor-in-chief, Windows & .NET Magazine.

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