BindView Development Corporation (NASDAQ: BVEW) was an American software company founded in 1990 by Eric Pulaski. Pulaski remained as

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and

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until the acquisition by

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in January 2006.
- BindView started out as "The LAN Support Group" (LSG) and was a developer of a bindery viewer product for the

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platform called BindView. In 1995, the company changed names from The LAN Support Group to BindView and developed into a supplier of

and

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directory administration, vulnerability management and policy assessment and management software, providing customers with the tools to assess, discover and remediate network, hardware or application anomalies.

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