BindView and Tata Consultancy Services Announce Strategic Alliance to Bring IT Security Compliance Solutions to Market

Business Wire, August 9, 2005

HOUSTON & NEW YORK -- BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW) a global provider of IT security compliance solutions and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BOMBAY:TCS.BO)(NSI:TCS.NS), a leading global technology services firm, announced today a strategic alliance expanding both companies' partner programs. Through terms of the alliance, BindView and TCS plan to bring to market IT security compliance solutions that combine TCS' strength in security assessment and services with BindView's product strength in compliance and vulnerability management. TCS intends to offer these services in conjunction with its eSecurity Consulting Services and IT security compliance offerings.

TCS plans to utilize BindView's Compliance Center and bv-Control product portfolios to perform comprehensive assessments of customer environments to determine their IT security compliance posture. TCS also expects to begin developing new security compliance consulting lines based on BindView compliance and vulnerability management products. TCS consultants have been trained on BindView products and are actively engaging BindView in their Security Audit and Managed Services accounts.

"Today's regulatory landscape is reshaping how organizations meet rigorous IT security compliance requirements for demonstrating due care and passing critical audits," said BindView President and Chief Operating Officer Arshad Matin. "BindView and TCS have already successfully leveraged our respective capabilities in early customer engagements. We expect this alliance to take our two companies to the next level of joint collaboration and marketing with TCS' global customer base."

"Our eSecurity practice offers a broad range of products and services to organizations in every corner of the world," said TCS Director of Sales and Delivery Support for Global Consulting Venguswamy Ramaswamy. "TCS has a strong track record of strength in the security compliance industry with a large pool of certified consultants providing end-to-end solutions expertise. We have seen first-hand the power of BindView's IT security compliance and vulnerability management offerings, which are an excellent fit for our eSecurity practice. TCS plans to develop new offerings based on BindView products and services that will complement our existing capabilities and provide customers with expanded resources for meeting their compliance and vulnerability requirements."

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value.

TCS achieved this by creating and perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. Known as the "Global Delivery Model," this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry.

More than 90 percent of TCS customers reward the company's reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With more than 45,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 32 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location.

TCS reported consolidated revenues of $2.24 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2004-2005. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information: www.tcs.com.

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.