BindView Taps Security and IT Management Experts to Headline Conference Agenda at Insight 03 User Conference.

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Insight 03

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003

Customers and Partners Share Industry Best Practices to

Achieve Business and Technology Goals

Creating a collaborative forum for exchanging security and IT management best practices, BindView Corp. (NASDAQ: BVEW) today announced that industry experts from its diverse customer base will lead multiple sessions at the company's annual user conference, Insight 03. Scheduled Oct. 15-17 in Las Vegas, the annual user event attracts participants from leading corporations and government agencies including FleetBoston Financial Corp., the National Security Agency (NSA), Halliburton and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who will lead sessions on topics ranging from policy compliance, vulnerability management, migration, directory administration and IT management.

User conference attendees participate in customer-led sessions - many presented as case studies - learning first-hand how to apply industry best practices to their unique circumstances and organizations.

This year's event will also feature returning speaker Tony Sager, deputy chief, Defensive Information Operations Group Information Assurance Directory, at the National Security Agency (NSA). An attendee favorite as the keynote speaker at last year's conference, Sager will direct multiple group sessions at Insight 03, offering participants a greater opportunity for interactive and personal idea exchange.

"The pervasive and dynamic nature of the security problem means that government and private communities must work together on a shared problem," said Sager. "Bringing together hundreds of security and IT management professionals, Insight 03 provides a forum for people to collaborate and hear about new ideas to help them protect against the threats to their systems. Working together, we have both the ability and the responsibility to improve the security of our nation's information systems."

BindView has tapped the following representatives to participate from its worldwide customer base, including several U.S. government agencies, with more to be announced as Insight 03 approaches:

-- B&Q - the number one home improvement and garden retailer in

Europe and the third largest in the world;

-- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida - a member of the Blue Cross

and Blue Shield association comprised of 42 independent,

locally operated companies that collectively provide

healthcare coverage for more than 88.7 million - nearly

one-in-three - Americans;

-- Environmental Protection Agency - U.S. agency devoted to

protecting human health and safeguarding the natural

environment;

-- Everest Technology - an IT consulting firm focused on serving

the federal government;

-- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - the principal

investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice;

-- FleetBoston Financial Corp. - the seventh-largest financial

holding company in the United States, with assets of $197

billion;

-- Halliburton - one of the world's largest providers of products

and services to the oil and gas industries;

-- Markel Corporation - an international property and casualty

insurance holding company;

-- Northern Arizona Healthcare - a public benefit healthcare

system;

-- National Institutes of Health - the steward of medical and

behavioral research for the nation;

-- National Security Agency - the nation's cryptologic 

organization that coordinates, directs, and performs highly

specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and

produce foreign intelligence information;

-- Raytheon - an industry leader in defense, government and

commercial electronics, space, information technology,

technical services, and business and special mission aircraft;

and

-- Texas Instruments - a leading provider of innovative DSP and

analog technologies to meet customers' real world signal

processing requirements.

"In the financial sector our systems operate 24x7, and a migration of 30,000 mailboxes is complex no matter how you cut it," said Erik M. Johnson of FleetBoston Financial Corp. "BindView helped us navigate the process when we migrated from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2000, and we'll demonstrate first hand our own experience and best practices."

BindView Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Ron Rosenthal commented, "Forward-thinking security and IT management professionals understand the need to outline organization and departmental appetites for risk, and define security policies measured by their risk tolerance. Sessions led by BindView customers at Insight 03 provide attendees with information to better understand their individual organization's risk and compliance profile and take the necessary steps to minimize threats to their business-critical IT infrastructure. Featuring real-world implementations that highlight these challenges and solutions, customers will gain immediate, actionable information to help reduce the cost of managing the ever-present enterprise-wide risks to the IT systems."

About Insight 03

Scheduled Oct. 15-17 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Insight 03 provides a collegial forum for BindView customers, partners, resellers and consultants to advance their technical knowledge and collaborate with other companies and industry experts. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about innovative methods to build and measure security best practices, assess and secure the enterprise, and deploy and optimize enterprise directories. Participants will learn how BindView helps organizations to secure and optimize their mission-critical infrastructures and to achieve the highest return on their IT investments. For more information and to register, visit www.bindview.com/Insight2003 or call 713-561-4247.

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 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.