BindView Delivers Advanced New IT Security Compliance Capabilities in Directory and Access Management Portfolio; New Release Features Improved Workflow, Provisioning, Access Management and Identity Verification

Business Wire, August 22, 2005

HOUSTON -- Increasing automation and performance in its award-winning Directory and Access Management portfolio, BindView Corp. (NASDAQ:BVEW) today announced enhanced capabilities for its bv-Admin for Windows 8.0 solution suite to address the growing roster of IT security compliance requirements. Enterprise IT directories are widely used for controlling user access to systems and important corporate information, and these assets must be closely safeguarded to meet both security and regulatory requirements.

As new hires, customers, partners, mergers and job changes reshape user access needs, BindView's bv-Admin helps to ensure appropriate levels of IT access control. BindView offers customers the only Active Directory-integrated administration suite, providing automated controls, centralized provisioning, workflow and auditing capabilities for demonstrating regulatory due care.

"Managing a global enterprise poses a broad range of challenges as IT organizations simultaneously juggle compliance requirements," said BindView Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Steve Kahan. "Consistent directory and access management can mean the difference between passing or failing audits. And as we've seen in recent weeks, it can also result in the loss of customer and shareholder confidence should data be compromised. BindView helps organizations closely manage their IT security compliance requirements with automated capabilities that help to secure user rights and access controls, and enforce stringent security policies."

"In our globally distributed environment, managing IT access and identity controls is important in helping us enforce compliance requirements and protect our corporate data," said Daniel Jarling, with Germany's INA Schaeffler Group, a leading supplier of rolling bearing and other equipment for the international automotive industry. "BindView's new bv-Admin solution significantly enhances the speed and efficiency for automating policies and granting access privileges to our global user base."

bv-Admin for Windows v8.0 At-A-Glance

--Automated Approval-Based Administration: Provides significantly enhanced multi-level approvals beyond IT to key business stakeholders, using easy-to-understand business language. Approval-based administration helps ensure overall IT security requirements are met for demonstrating due care.

--Identity Verification Service: Integrates with Password Self Service to validate user identities and prevent social engineering attacks. Protects access to critical systems for large, complex IT environments. Provides critical identity administration capabilities for meeting regulatory requirements.

--Provisioning & Workflow Enhancements: Provides new capabilities for enterprise-wide updates to non-Active Directory systems, including out-of-the-box support for SQL Server and Novell NDS eDirectory. BindView Professional Services can extend plug-in capabilities for other systems based on customer needs.

--Improved Performance: Offers marked performance gains for increased IT productivity and improved scalability for managing the largest IT environments. New architecture dramatically reduces the required number of servers, which helps to lower total cost of ownership.

Availability

bv-Admin for Windows v8.0 is available immediately. For more information, please visit: http://www.bindview.com/solutions/identityadmin/index.cfm.> About BindView

BindView Corporation is a global provider of IT security compliance software. BindView solutions remove barriers that limit an organization's ability to cost effectively demonstrate due care and maintain compliance with IT security policies and regulatory mandates. BindView policy compliance; vulnerability and configuration management; and directory and access management software combine best-practices knowledge with automated controls to reduce risk and protect IT assets at the lowest cost across users, systems, applications and databases in multi-platform environments. More than 20 million licenses have shipped to 5,000 companies worldwide, spanning all major business segments and the public sector. Contact BindView via e-mail at info@bindview.com, on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at 1-713-561-4000 or 1-800-749-8439.