Customers Testimonials

Alere
Archer Daniels Midland
Black Hills Corporation
EMBARQ
Fujitsu America, Inc.
Infoworld

Spire Security
St. Luke's Health System
USAID
WestJet

"We evaluated other products that could help us with change validation, but nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager met all of our needs and had a much shorter time-to-benefit than competing solutions."

Gary Mruz, IT Director of Technical Systems, Archer Daniels Midland

"One of the most useful features of IP360, is its ability to set a baseline for vulnerability remediation on particular servers. From that point forward, new vulnerabilities show up as a spike in the reporting. These alerts will show us very quickly where we have new issues to address and it automatically points you to the patch or the fix. And the good thing is that it might not be a new vulnerability that somebody has discovered, but it might be something that we did that caused a potential problem. In essence, it's always there looking over our shoulders."

"nCircle certainly proved its value over the last couple of months, during the notorious outbreaks of highly destructive worms such as Blaster. Systems covered by IP360 were not affected at all by these malicious codes. nCircle's Vulnerability Management solution is a critical weapon in our network security arsenal."

"Prior to adopting nCircle's solution we had been managing vulnerabilities manually, but we were spending an inordinate amount of time keeping up with threats and applying patches."

"Even if we had unlimited staffing resources to toss at the vulnerability concern, there was no way we could have hired enough people to do a thorough enough job or respond to attacks fast enough. We knew we needed a more proactive solution to identify and control network vulnerabilities, supplementing the anti-virus, firewall and IDS protections that were already in place."

"No other Vulnerability Management solution is as complete as nCircle's IP360," he reports, "enabling ADM to enforce global security policies, eliminate network exposures, and achieve an unprecedented level of security operations efficiency. IP360's payback was immediate."

"IP360 certainly proved its value over the last couple of months, during the notorious outbreaks of highly destructive worms such as Blaster and exploitations of software vulnerabilities like RPC."

"nCircle is our bulletproof jacket, Its system profiling and policy compliance monitoring protect us against inadvertent system misconfigurations that could open the door to worms and viruses. And its continuous vulnerability assessment and aggressive patch management allow us to automate the process. There are plenty of tools out there that diagnose a lot threats, but only IP360 helps us streamline day-to-day vulnerability management, allowing us to redeploy administrators and accomplish more elsewhere."

"Vulnerability management has become just an integrated part of my team's function. Risk is quantified and potential exposures are handled automatically."

"Compared to other Vulnerability Management solutions, IP360 has a unique methodology to avoid false positives, so our security administrators can rely on the metrics to get a common sense handle on how to prioritize their time."

"IP360 is a drop-and-go solution," notes Mruz, "and over more than a year we have had zero performance or reliability concerns."

"Reviewing IP360's user-friendly reports has become a routine daily function, integrated into how our administrators maintain their systems; and I oftentimes review the summary reports to get an overview of the whole security picture."

"Since IP360 was installed we're protecting our perimeter quite well. Now we want to better monitor and patch our clients, because if a vulnerability arises on just a single system it could threaten the entire network."

"We're systematically scaling up, adding IP360 to other areas in our network. Devices can be placed anywhere, so wherever we need protection we can drop in the appliance and it will be centralized back to our management console. That's another nCircle advantage: we don't have to install any devices or software ourselves, another burden relieved from our security staff."

"A smart, well-designed solution, IP360 brings us to a level of efficiency we could never have achieved with sheer manpower. It's a great value."

Johnny Stewart, Security Manager EMBARQ Corporation

"nCircle solutions enable us to more easily determine where we can most effectively reduce our risk."

"With nCircle, we can focus on managing risk, not managing scans. We have made a dramatic improvement in our pre-production risk management scores resulting in better performance, less downtime, reduced management overhead and lower cost."

"We were also wowed by nCircle's vulnerability management solution."

"We selected nCircle's best-in-class IP360 system based on its ability to substantially reduce network vulnerabilities and exposures before attacks occur. Our loyal customers increasingly require comprehensive security solutions that have a compelling return on investment. nCircle meets or exceeds our enterprise customers demands, while effectively streamlining security operations."

Chris Buse, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Minnesota

"By adopting a common technology with a centrally managed solution, every agency gets a consistent view of their security level and continuous assessment, without having to manage the back end; which is where there are significant savings for the state."

Dennis Lauer, Chief Information Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation

"Millennium Challenge Corporation achieved some immediate benefits with nCircle. For the first time we had an accurate and continuous view of our risk and the level of compliance we were achieving with our key regulations- letting us focus our efforts where it matters the most ."

Seth Bromberger, Manager, Information Systems Security, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

"Information Systems Security achieved some immediate benefits with the implementation of nCircle IP360. For the first time we had an unparalleled view of network assets and a system that could deliver an up to date view of security risk with consistent and repeatable results."

"The majority of successful attacks on computer systems via the Internet can be traced to the exploitation of security flaws on this list and companies such as nCircle are providing the most powerful solutions available today to eliminate vulnerabilities before they can become a threat to corporate integrity."

"[IP360 is a] world-class solution of the highest quality."

"nCircle's IP360 vulnerability management system provides a proactive solution to stop attacks before they start."

"The nCircle IP360 Vulnerability Management System works continuously to eliminate vulnerabilities before they are maliciously exploited."

"We evaluated all the major network security vendors, but we felt nCircle's functionality was the best fit. With nCircle's solution suite, now we have a comprehensive, unified and enterprise-wide view of our risk and compliance across the entire IT stack."

"nCircle perfectly meets the needs in an organization like ours with lots of distributed users. It was better on all the other criteria and it has a great criticality rating system that is fully supported with documentation that precisely rates how dangerous each vulnerability is. That feeds perfectly into our grading system."

"USAID had developed a 'report card' system, assigning a letter grade, from A to F, for headquarters and for each of the 80 networks around the world." "nCircle generates reports that show the average host score for each network at USAID." "We use this score to calculate a report card grade each month for each network at USAID." "We found that the grades we were calculating for the offices improved from an average grade of C last March to an average grade of A today."

"After finding security risks, nCircle's software automatically prepares a work plan, assigns a priority to each vulnerability and describes how to fix it. That has made it much easier for people."

"Once we took a look at nCircle's CCM, and realized it offered a compliance component, that was the catalyst to implement a hardening program at WestJet."

"CCM was integral to the migration of our reservation infrastructure and to establishing PCI compliance."