Symantec wraps up BindView acquisition

Symantec Corporation, IT security solutions provider announced finishing the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation, a global provider of agent-less IT security compliance software. The agreement between Symantec and BindView was announced in October 2005.

Together, Symantec and BindView offer companies a choice of agent-based or agent-less solutions to enable them to define, control and sustain their IT compliance needs. The new entity will be offering a comprehensive end-to-end solution for policy and vulnerability management from a single vendor.

The agent-based and agent-less policy compliance solutions are complementary capabilities in an IT environment. Symantec's agent-based technology architecture offers full-featured compliance and vulnerability management and is well-suited for enterprises having complex and heterogeneous IT environments.

BindView's agent-less architecture, which is less IT staff-intensive, is ideal for organisations faced with managing a large number of decentralised systems such as Windows desktop machines deployed throughout the enterprise.