BindView Extends Comprehensive IT Security Compliance to Novell Servers, Directories with Support for ZENworks, Nsure Audit.

HOUSTON -- Helps Organizations Meet Exhaustive Security and Regulatory Compliance Hurdles

Advancing IT security compliance for Novell users, BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW) announced today the availability of new releases of bv-Control for NDS eDirectory and bv-Control for NetWare, providing organizations with the most comprehensive administration and security compliance solutions for Novell operating environments. These new releases help organizations properly configure and protect their Novell servers, desktops and directories, with additional capabilities for demonstrating due care to meet regulatory compliance objectives.

Working in close partnership with customers using Novell servers and directories, BindView has strengthened its enterprise-wide compliance monitoring by creating new capabilities for ZENworks desktops and Nsure Audit.

"Managing IT controls is a primary component for meeting security compliance demands in today's global business environment," said BindView Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Shekar Ayyar. "Organizations require strong configuration management, compliance monitoring and user access controls to demonstrate due care and to pass the stringent demands of regulatory audits. BindView provides Novell users with significant new capabilities for meeting these requirements."

Both products are designed to strengthen enterprise-wide compliance monitoring by extending the power of Novell Nsure Audit. Customers are able to report on Nsure audit variables using out-of-the-box reports or by creating custom reports. Compliance queries can then be run at scheduled times throughout the day, week or month.

bv-Control for NDS eDirectory with ZENworks and Nsure Audit Reporting

bv-Control for NDS eDirectory provides extended auditing capabilities, allowing administrators to quickly report on and rectify problems for virtually every aspect of the directory. With additional new support for ZENworks and Nsure Audit, bv-Control for NDS eDirectory provides more than 90 additional fields for reporting on IT security compliance capabilities:

--Reports on ZENworks Desktops, providing reports on configuration issues to determine modifications since last review

--Reports on workstation group members, description, owner, location, department and organizations

--Checks password status for screen savers, including length, last change date and whether they are enabled

--Protects the network against unauthorized log-ins and unregistered workstations

--Provides insight into reports for file rights, workstation user history and last accessed server

--Provides Nsure data sources and connectivity capabilities for Audit Event Configurations, Audit Secure Logging Servers, CVR, MySQL, Oracle and SMTP 

bv-Control for NetWare with Nsure Audit

Regulatory compliance has placed an increased emphasis on auditing controls for global IT environments. bv-Control for NetWare now extends the power of Novell Nsure Audit by reporting on a variety of Nsure Audit data sources and fields, including events for connections, directories, environments and files. In addition, bv-Control for NetWare also offers organizations a broad range of capabilities:

--Assesses and enforces enterprise-wide security: Configures servers to help ensure policies are followed, mitigating risks against the latest security vulnerabilities

--Streamlines reporting: Provides easy creation of custom reports based on criteria unique to the environment

--Simplifies creation of configuration standards: Provides administrators with tools for creating "gold standards" or templates using the Site Standards feature

About BindView

BindView Corporation is a leading provider of proactive IT Security Compliance software worldwide. BindView solutions enable customers to centralize and automate Compliance Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Identity Administration and Configuration Management operations across the enterprise. By following established regulatory guidelines, audit frameworks, technical standards and industry best practices, BindView solutions enable customers to implement a policy-based approach toward safeguarding their IT environments from internal and external threats and vulnerabilities. The result is improved security and improved compliance auditing across users, systems, applications, and databases based on Microsoft, UNIX, LINUX and Novell operating systems. 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], on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at 1-713-561-4000 or 1-800-749-8439.