BindView Expands Security Management Solution for SAP Systems to Meet Sarbanes-Oxley and International Due Care Requirements.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2004

New Release Features Business Process Security Management and

Broad SAP Platform Support

Escalating its commitment to provide customers with advanced tools to secure and manage business-critical applications, BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW) today announced expanded support for SAP's market-leading ERP solutions.

Part of its Vulnerability Management portfolio, bv-Control for SAP Systems provides organizations with greatly enhanced audit, analysis and reporting capabilities for their SAP financial and human-resource applications, including validation of internal controls for meeting Sarbanes-Oxley and international due care requirements. The newly enhanced BindView application allows organizations to perform security authorization and user-access evaluations, define Segregation of Duties issues and review system configurations to avoid costly system downtime and security violations. Detailed security, audit and business-process reports can be used by non-technical users to quickly respond to potential threats.

"bv-Control for SAP Systems helps my clients in global organizations ensure compliance with security best practices and control of Segregation of Duty issues required for meeting mandated government due care requirements in various countries around the world," said Elizabeth Duke, director of RE Enterprises, a UK-based ERP consultant. "One of its key benefits is allowing companies to determine actual risk issues in a comparatively shorter time period without over-taxing SAP administration support, resulting in quicker response turn-around and resolution of risks."

Duke's company recently assisted one of the UK's largest public-sector organizations to comply with regulatory audits for the BS 7799 and ISO 17799 using bv-Control for SAP Systems.

"My client advises it would have taken two highly trained people -- working three months -- to obtain the required SAP security risk information. With bv-Control for SAP Systems, my client now has a comprehensive audit methodology that helps to maintain their SAP security infrastructure and provide audit compliancy on a regular basis to reduce risk exposure," concluded Duke.

"The fast approaching deadline to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and other mandates has IT professionals scrambling to comply," said BindView Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Ron Rosenthal. "To meet audit obligations, business managers, auditors and IT administrators must identify and eliminate potential security breaches and liabilities. BindView offers new data analysis reporting that helps assess SAP application environments and ensure they are protected."

Expanded Capabilities

BindView bv-Control for SAP Systems now supports the new SAP(R) R/3(R) Enterprise versions 6.2/4.7, in addition to existing versions 4.6, 4.5, 4.0 and 3.1. Functionality is divided into three key components:

-- Segregation of Duty helps determine specific risks within and

between activity groups. Administrators can identify conflicts

between groups, which is useful in documenting compliance with

Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. Coupled with the profile

segregation of duty reports previously available from

BindView, customers now have access to almost 200

out-of-the-box reports for managing group security and

compliance with Business Process, Security and Audit.

-- Pre-defined Reports are based on best practices from SAP Audit

Guidelines and bv-Control for SAP Systems users. Additionally,

BindView provides templates unique to each version of SAP,

allowing customers to simplify security setup when migrating

to new software versions.

-- Migration Analysis allows organizations to compare security

rights associated with T-Codes between SAP versions.

BindView's bv-Control for SAP Systems retains the existing functionality that helps to determine T-Codes assigned to users or profiles, and allows organizations to trouble shoot excessive access rights and ensure appropriate access.

Pricing and Availability

BindView bv-Control for SAP Systems is available immediately. For additional information and pricing, please visit www.bindview.com or contact BindView at 800-813-5869.

About BindView Corporation

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 and automate policy compliance, vulnerability assessment, directory administration and migration 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 [e-mail] or visit BindView's World Wide Web Site at http://www.bindview.com. BindView can also be reached at 1-800-749-8439 or at 1-713-561-4000.