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BindView Advances Internet Security With Capabilities That Provide Hacker's View of the Network

Posted on: Monday, 26 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

Helping enterprise organizations protect their IT infrastructures from malicious attacks, BindView Corp. (NASDAQ:BVEW) announced today new capabilities in its Vulnerability and Configuration Management portfolio. bv-Control for Internet Security 8.1 provides customers with an outside-in view of their networks, much like the view of a potential attacker. The software provides administrators with a comprehensive view that helps to identify and remediate exposures, and detects both applications and devices present on corporate networks.

As evidenced in news reports, malicious exploits continue to plague organizations around the world with increasing frequency and sophistication. bv-Control for Internet Security helps to alleviate the burden on IT organizations by automatically discovering network applications and devices so that administrators are able to identify and assess network-based risks.

"Enterprise organizations around the world remain under a constant vigil as threats, attacks and new vulnerabilities undermine the safety and security of their infrastructures," said BindView Vice President of Field Marketing Chris Smith. "At no point in time has IT security compliance been more critical, particularly as organizations face intense scrutiny to meet multiple regulatory mandates and audit requirements that demonstrate their controls are sound."

bv-Control for Internet Security At-a-Glance

-- Advanced Application Fingerprinting Capabilities: Provides automated discovery of software applications helping to identify machines vulnerable to application-specific threats.

-- Significant Reduction of False-Positives: Saves time and man-hours for IT administrators with a significantly reduced false-positive rate.

-- Enhanced Interface: Features new interface and reporting enhancements that alert administrators to security exposures, ranking severity and criticality.

-- Extensive Security Reports: Ships with pre-configured security reports including SANS Priority One, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Banner exams and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) scanner reports.

-- Continuous Vulnerability Assessment: Equipped with more than 850 vulnerability checks for multi-platform coverage including Windows, UNIX and Novell.

-- RAZOR Research Team: Keeps customers up-to-date with critical patches and checks for new threats via rapid fire update; RAZOR research team continuously updates vulnerability database with latest security threats.

Availability

BindView bv-Control for Internet Security v8.1 is available now. For more information, please visit: www.bindview.com/Products/bvControl/InternetSecurity.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.

Source: Business Wire

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