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BindView Announces Support for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005; New Plug-in for BindView Solutions to Integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager.


HOUSTON -- Advancing security and compliance for Microsoft Windows See Windows.

(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
 Server System, BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW BVEW Binary View ) today announced its support for the latest release of Microsoft Operations Manager See datacenter manager.  (MOM) 2005. The new BindView Management Pack for MOM 2005 will enable customers to integrate vulnerability and configuration management solutions from the BindView portfolio with MOM 2005 to enhance IT security and compliance across enterprise environments, and improve IT risk containment.

Announced today by Microsoft, MOM 2005 focuses on reducing the cost and complexity of managing and securing enterprise IT environments. BindView will support MOM 2005 through expansion and integration with its Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance and Directory Administration offerings.

"BindView is a strategic, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner," said David Hamilton David Hamilton may refer to:
  • David Hamilton (tenor)
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  • David Hamilton (architect) (1768–1853)
  • David Hamilton (photographer) (born 1933)
  • David Hamilton (Labour Party) (born 1950)
, director of the Windows and Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp. "BindView solutions provide customers with highly scalable security and compliance options that help proactively blanket Microsoft systems and applications. Announcement of its Management Pack for MOM 2005 underscores BindView's commitment and support for development for Microsoft platforms and customers worldwide."

"At no point in time have organizations around the world placed more resources and corporate scrutiny on IT security and compliance," said BindView Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Shekar Ayyar. "With strategic dependence upon IT systems and the requirement to meet regulatory due care requirements, BindView is working with Microsoft to provide organizations with increased insight into the configuration and controls of their business-critical IT infrastructures."

BindView Management Pack for MOM 2005

--Compliance: To help manage industry and government mandates -- including Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , GLBA GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (Financial Modernization Act of 1999)
GLBA Gay and Lesbian Business Association
GLBA Great Lakes Booksellers Association
GLBA Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
 and NERC NERC Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
NERC Northeast Recycling Council
NERC National Environment Research Council
 -- the BindView Management Pack will alert MOM 2005 on baseline deviations from industry best practices such as CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.)


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 benchmarks.

--Incident Response: To help manage deviations from acceptable, predefined risk thresholds, the Management Pack will automatically forward alerts to the MOM 2005 operator console, helping IT administrators reduce response times on potential security threats.

--Scalability: With its agentless architecture, BindView pre-packaged or tailored MOM 2005 rules will receive critical events or alerts on potential vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations and policy exceptions across global enterprises, without deploying MOM agents on each system.

Availability

The BindView Management Pack for MOM 2005 will be released upon general availability of MOM 2005 from Microsoft.

About BindView

BindView Corporation is a leading provider of proactive business policy, IT security and directory management software worldwide. BindView solutions and services enable customers to centralize cen·tral·ize  
v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate.

2.
 and automate policy compliance, vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site.  and directory administration across the entire organization. With BindView insight at work(TM), customers benefit from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies with a verifiable return on investment. 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 or visit BindView's Web site at http://www.bindview.com. BindView can also be reached at 800-749-8439 or at 713-561-4000.

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