BindView Presents FISMA Best Practices for IT Security Compliance

Business Wire, June 28, 2005

HOUSTON -- Elevating best practices for meeting regulatory requirements, BindView Corp. (NASDAQ:BVEW) today announced plans for an informational webinar titled "Improving Your Grade: A Proven Approach to FISMA Compliance," featuring BindView IT security compliance experts. The discussion will focus on practical and economically sustainable best practices for accomplishing Department and Agency business objectives, while significantly reducing costs of compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). It will feature real-world stories drawn from federal organizations that have successfully achieved high scores/grades against the FISMA audit.

What:

The release of the 2004 Federal Computer Security Report Card highlighted marked improvements by several federal entities, but significant room for improvement remains an overall theme. For those agencies that have shown improvement, this is frequently completed with the brute force labor of collecting, analyzing, reporting on data and answering data calls from higher headquarters. Few agencies have implemented compliance processes that help to enable automated execution.

The discussion will provide actionable, economically viable insight into solutions successfully used with federal agencies. It will also cover real-world FISMA success stories, and participants will share new methods for implementing NIST-based security plans that satisfy auditors while demonstrating compliance with FISMA.

When:

Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. EST (9:00 a.m. CST, 7:00 a.m. PST)

Who Should Participate:

Federal IT managers and directors with responsibilities for ensuring organizations score a passing grade against the FISMA audit. Participants will hear real-world experiences and receive critical information to:

--Gain a better understanding of NIST standards and how it relates to FISMA compliance.

--Learn the role of self-assessment in the IT security compliance process.

--Discover ways to automate the Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) process and how this fits in the overall remediation process.

--Learn techniques that lower costs and increase effectiveness of the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process.

--Discover methods for monitoring and enforcing security compliance, while automatically generating compliance score cards and OMB reporting.

How to Register:

To register, visit the BindView website at: www.bindview.com/Events/GetEvents.cfm?NUM=1404&AD=WB-0629WebX-Q205.

About BindView Corporation

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 combines 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.