BindView Offers Free Compliance Assessment Download to Evaluate Audit Readiness; Software Provides Quick and Easy Snapshot View of Compliance Posture.

HOUSTON -- Helping enterprise organizations to more quickly and easily evaluate their state of audit readiness, BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW) announced today the availability of a free downloadable Compliance Assessment Tool (BVCAT). The new tool provides a snapshot compliance evaluation by combining a question-based survey about internal policies with automated assessments of technical configuration criteria. Following completion of the BVCAT evaluation, an assessment report outlines weaknesses in the organization's compliance posture that could potentially lead to negative audit findings.

BVCAT offers an initial measurement of an organization's compliance audit readiness against major industry regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, GLBA, Basel II and PCI. It also provides a qualitative and quantitative picture of the environment, along with an assessment of its compliance posture relative to specific regulations.

The free download includes both survey and measurement components. The 10-question, five-minute survey checks for policies and processes commonly scrutinized by auditors that are outlined in prominent frameworks including COBIT, FFIEC and NIST SP 800-53, among others. The measurement examines more than 60 discrete configuration elements or checks on a single representative system, evaluating IT controls and providing a technical assessment into overall audit readiness.

"BVCAT is much like a home cholesterol test for compliance professionals," said BindView Vice President of Field Marketing Chris Smith. "It tests a small but significant set of indicators surrounding the overall health of the IT infrastructure, which represents its compliance posture. While poor test results may not necessarily indicate poor health -- or non-compliance -- it's an excellent early indicator of potential problems to come."

For more information or to run the compliance assessment please visit: http://www.bindview.com/bvcat/.

Evaluating BVCAT Results

BVCAT uses more than 60 discrete configuration elements or checks which divide baseline measurement criteria into three categories:

Log Auditing: Evaluates whether system logs are appropriately enabled and configured to record information. Assesses if there is a sufficient audit trail of account logon events so that each time a user logs on the system there is a record entered into the log.

Restricted Access: Assesses user permissions to sensitive system data and resources, evaluating whether appropriate approvals are assigned for shutting down or changing system dates and times.

Dangerous Services: Reviews commonly exploited services including Telnet, Messenger, SNMP, Alerter and ClipBook services and evaluates whether these are either disabled or severely restricted.

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 [e-mail], on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at 1-713-561-4000 or 1-800-749-8439.