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Combines Business-Driven Content with Cis Technical Standards and Frameworks Extending its robust IT security compliance product portfolio, BindView Corp. (NASDAQ:BVEW) announced today the availability of new regulatory compliance content for its flagship Compliance Center product. Organizations are struggling to comply with complex regulatory mandates, and the new report views provide actionable IT security controls that are mapped directly to the regulations. This unique mapping capability provides IT professionals, business executives and their auditors with a single view into their combined security compliance posture. The new reports map regulatory mandates - including Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, HIPAA, Basel II and GLBA - to the industry-accepted ISO 17799, COBIT and NIST SP800-53 frameworks using the Center for Internet Security's (CIS) Level-1 and Level-2 Benchmarks for the Windows and LINUX operating systems. Platform coverage for the new regulatory report views includes Windows, LINUX and Sun. Because no technical standards exist for NetWare, BindView has created its own Security Essentials Technical Standards for NetWare, based on its own long history of securing Novell environments. "Regulatory mandates require business executives, compliance officers and their IT counterparts to implement auditable controls to help ensure compliance due care," said BindView Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Steve Kahan. "Today, it is difficult for each of these groups to communicate their respective requirements for meeting compliance objectives. BindView's new Regulatory Report Views address the scenario head-on. Now, these executives and their auditors are able to view the organization's compliance posture from the same information. Using the reports, companies gain prescriptive guidance for making required corrections based on established technical standards and frameworks." "The Center for Internet Security helps organizations around the world effectively manage security risks," said Clint Kreitner, president and CEO of CIS. "Our benchmarks provide end users with proven methods and tools to improve, measure, monitor and compare their security status with widely respected configuration practices. BindView recognizes the importance of technical standards and was the first company to achieve compliance with the rigorous Level-2 Benchmarks for the Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server operating systems." Availability BindView Regulatory Report Views are available immediately. For more information, please visit: www.bindview.com/Solutions/ComplMonit/mapRegFrmCtrlPol.cfm. 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 combines 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 info@bindview.com, on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at 1-713-561-4000 or 1-800-749-8439.