BindView Development Corp.

5151 San Felipe, 25th Floor

Houston, TX 77056
(713) 561-4000
www.bindview.com

Security Software - Category Directory

Sales

$68 million

Business Description 

BindView Development Corporation is a leading provider of software for proactively managing business policy, IT security, and computer network directory information. Our solutions help customers to centralize and automate policy compliance, vulnerability management, and directory administration functions across the enterprise. BindView solutions combine (1) a broad-based knowledge of the customer IT environment with (2) specific process implementation around an IT risk management lifecycle and (3) our policy/ vulnerability/ directory technology to help customers safeguard their computer systems, applications and networks from internal and external threats and vulnerabilities. These threats and vulnerabilities emanate from myriad sources throughout the customer IT environment (i.e., hackers, employees, rogue users and systems, misconfigured and unpatched systems, etc.).

Products and Technology

BindView builds, licenses, and provides technical support for three main software-technology suites, in the areas of policy compliance, vulnerability management, and directory administration and migration. Each suite includes multiple software products. Typically, different products from each suite are combined to meet a customer’s specific business needs.

Policy Compliance Products

Introduced mid-2002, BindView’s policy-compliance products deliver industry best practices to help customers satisfy the “general control” requirements of regulatory frameworks such as SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, etc., as well as IT auditing frameworks such as ISO 17799 CIS Level-1, and CobiT. Our products help organizations to centralize and automate the creation and distribution of security policies across the enterprise and to check that all employees have access to and are aware of such policies. Organizations can measure user awareness of security policies and document when employees have read and accepted those policies, providing important documentation for legal and regulatory audits. Using industry-accepted benchmarks, organizations can measure their IT systems to help ensure that the IT infrastructure meets self-prescribed, government, or industry standards. Products in this suite include:

BindView Policy Operations Center
BindView Compliance Center
BindView Configuration Advisor
BindView Decision Support Center

Vulnerability Management Products

With its vulnerability-management suite, BindView helps organizations to proactively audit, access and secure their multi-platform environments from internal and external attacks, including finding and fixing security holes before they can be exploited. Our software provides in-depth assessment and evaluation of systems, applications and networks; it also provides capabilities for remediating portions of the IT infrastructure that are found to be outside of acceptable IT or operational compliance parameters. Our vulnerability-management products can query and gather data across very large server and user populations, and provide extensive results reporting on the status of the network. Numerous “out-of-the-box” queries and reports are available to detect vulnerabilities within the network and to alert administrators to effect corrective actions before system downtime or performance problems occur. Products in this suite include:

bv-Control for Windows® 200x and Active Directory®
bv-Control for UNIX®
bv-Control for NetWare®
bv-Control for NDS® eDirectory
bv-Control for OS/400
bv-Control for Microsoft® Exchange
bv-Control for Microsoft® SQL Server
bv-Control for Internet Security
bv-Control for Web Services
bv-Control for Check Point FireWall-1
bv-Control for SAP® Systems
bv-Control for Desktops
BindView NETinventory

BindView Smart Plug-In for HP OpenView
BindView Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager
BindView Patch Deployment

In 2001, 2002, and 2003, our vulnerability-management products accounted for approximately 88%, 83%, and 81%, respectively, of our consolidated revenues.

Directory Administration & Migration Products

With its directory administration and migration suite, BindView helps organizations to significantly lower the cost of deploying and managing users and their access rights across the IT infrastructure. The software suite promotes compliance with IT and operational policies for directory and password management, roles-based administration of users, migration between operating systems, and migration between email systems. Our software helps organizations to centralize and automate the day-to-day tasks associated with provisioning user and machine accounts, and managing roles-based access controls across the network. Additionally, products in this suite assist organizations in efficiently migrating between or to latest versions of Microsoft and Novell operating systems and directory structures. Product scalability enables support across very large distributed server and user populations, with secure built-in workflow facilities for repetitive tasks such as account creation, account maintenance, manager approvals and so forth. Products in this suite also provide capabilities for user self-service functions such password reset. A single management console manages multiple directories and domains, and includes a find-and-fix query facility. Products in this suite include:

bv-Admin for Windows®
bv-Admin for Windows® Migration
bv-Admin for Novell NDS®
bv-Admin for Novell® Migration
bv-Admin for Microsoft® Exchange
bv-Admin for Microsoft®) Exchange Migration
bv-Admin for .Net® Web Services
bv-Admin for Group Policy Objects