Bindview To Provide Security Compliance Capabilities For New Hp Openview Compliance Manager
Monday, 6 June 2005 12:35 EST
BindView to Demonstrate HP OpenView Operations for Windows Integration at HP Software Forum
DENVER— June 6, 2005 — BindView Corp. (NASDAQ: BVEW ) announced today that the company will provide enhanced security compliance capabilities for the new HP OpenView Compliance Manager. Customers will be able to leverage BindView’s powerful content source with its Compliance Center and bv-Control platforms to feed directly into the new HP OpenView Compliance Manager dashboard. The BindView HP OpenView Smart Plug-In (SPI) is intended to provide organizations with capabilities to track IT security compliance audit requirements and verify that remediation tasks are completed.
The reporting capabilities offered by the current BindView SPI for HP OpenView Operations for Windows will be available for demonstration on June 6 — 10, 2005, at the HP Software Forum in Booth #207. As part of its presence at the forum, BindView will also be presenting at the Partner Demo Theater.
BindView Compliance Center helps organizations establish internal IT security controls and standards, then measures results against established benchmarks. In addition, Compliance Center integrates with HP OpenView Service Desk to help IT operations automate a closed-loop lifecycle process for remediating security compliance vulnerabilities. Compliance Center supports Windows, UNIX, Linux and NetWare environments and is the first software of its kind to be certified against the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Level-2 Benchmarks.
“The evolving regulatory landscape around the world continues to drive increased costs and complexity for meeting and sustaining compliance,” said BindView Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Steve Kahan. “The combination of HP OpenView Compliance Manager with BindView solutions for IT security compliance provides organizations with advanced capabilities for establishing IT controls across multi-platform environments, measuring results within seconds using an extensive library of industry standards.”
“BindView will provide advanced IT security compliance capabilities to the HP OpenView Compliance Manager that are intended to help organizations meet their regulatory and own gold-standard compliance benchmarks,” said Yale Tankus, vice president of Partnerships and Alliances, Management Software Business, HP.
BindView Compliance Center At-A-Glance
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Provides Multi-Platform Support: Extends multi-platform support to HP OpenView users with Windows, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris), Linux (Red Hat, SuSE) and NetWare.
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Develops Compliance Templates: Creates compliance standards for using a reference server or builds custom templates based on established third-party standards or internally defined policies.
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Offers Technical Standards Packs: CIS Level-1 Benchmarks for Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux; CIS Level-2 Benchmarks for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional; BindView Security Essentials for Solaris and NetWare; SUN Blueprints for Solaris.
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Provides Comprehensive Evaluations: Reduces IT security compliance risk with quick identification of systems that have failed checks and drills down to specific details. Provides built-in exemption management capabilities.
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Integrates with HP OpenView Service Desk: Automatically generates remediation assignments for IT operations based on criticality, then automatically re-evaluates out-of-compliance systems to verify that remediation tasks are completed.
Availability
BindView Smart Plug-In for HP OpenView Operations for Windows is currently available. Expected availability for the BindView SPI for HP OpenView Compliance Manager is Fall 2005. For more information on the BindView SPI for HP OpenView, please visit: http://www.bindview.com/Resources/Datasheets/bvHPOpenView-DS.pdf.
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™, 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 , on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at or .
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