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nCircle Extends Market Lead With Agentless Coverage Of More Than 17,000 Conditions

Integrates Configuration and Vulnerability Research to Deliver Industry's Most Comprehensive, Unified Security Risk and Compliance Foundation

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 8th, 2008 — nCircle, the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that its solutions now identify over 17,000 conditions, including operating systems, applications, vulnerabilities and configurations.  The detailed configuration and security intelligence gathered by nCircle's agentless discovery provides enterprise customers with the industry's most comprehensive foundation for reducing security risk and ensuring compliance at the lowest possible cost.

nCircle's Vulnerability and Exposures Research Team (VERT), the world leader in accurate and non-intrusive agentless discovery technology, delivers an ever-growing library of vulnerability, configuration and compliance checks used across nCircle solutions, including:

  • nCircle IP360™ – the world's leading vulnerability and risk management solution – to discover vulnerabilities in an organization's IT infrastructure, including operating systems and applications
  • nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager™ – the most comprehensive agentless configuration auditing solution – to monitor system and application configurations and measure them against internal or industry benchmark guidelines
  • nCircle WebApp360™ – the first web application scanning solution designed for production enterprise networks – to detect critical security risks such as SQL injection and cross site scripting vulnerabilities in web applications and their underlying systems

Additionally, nCircle VERT offers the industry's only Service Level Agreement (SLA) providing customers vulnerability checks within 24 hours for all Microsoft Security Advisories, reinforcing nCircle's commitment to help organizations maintain the highest levels of security and compliance.

"Businesses are responding to the reality that IT risk means business risk—and the exploit of vulnerabilities and configuration exposures has become a common means of targeting sensitive information resources critical to the enterprise. This heightens the emphasis businesses must place today on two technologies that are fundamental to controlling these risks: vulnerability management, and configuration control," said Scott Crawford, Research Director of Security and Risk Management at Enterprise Management Associates. "By delivering risk-aware vulnerability assessment as well as configuration validation technology, nCircle is distinctively positioned to address both these sources of IT risk to help customers implement real solutions to real risk issues."

System and application configuration checks developed by nCircle VERT are the building blocks of a rich library of policies used in nCircle solutions and are based on standards and benchmarks from NIST, CIS and Microsoft. Customers can use these policies to measure compliance with specific regulations such as the PCI Data Security Standard, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.

"A year ago, nCircle delivered coverage for nearly 11,000 conditions - by far the most in the industry.  Twelve months later, we've exceeded 17,000.  That's more than ten times the growth of our nearest competitor," said Sheldon Malm, Director of Security Research & Development, nCircle. "Our continued investment in vulnerability, configuration and compliance research and development is truly unique in our industry, making nCircle a key component of any organization's security and compliance program."

All configuration and vulnerability discovery checks are supported in the nCircle Device Profiler 3000™, introduced in October 2007, the industry's first unified scanning appliance that gathers detailed intelligence about an enterprise network. This intelligence, when combined with nCircle's advanced analytics, delivers a comprehensive view of network-wide security risk and compliance. Customers can take advantage of integrated reporting through nCircle Security Intelligence Hub™, nCircle's centralized reporting and analytics solution for insight, dashboards, management and detailed analysis of an organization's overall compliance and security status.

"nCircle's singular objective is to help enterprises achieve both security and compliance most efficiently at the lowest possible cost," said Tim Keanini, Chief Technology Officer at nCircle. "We are pleased to deliver the industry's only unified infrastructure to help our customers with not only increased security and compliance, but also reduced complexity, deployment, management and audit costs, while continuing to provide the industry's broadest, deepest coverage."

About nCircle
nCircle is the leading provider of automated IT security and compliance auditing solutions. More than 4,500 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive solutions to manage and reduce security risk and achieve compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation, customer satisfaction and technology leadership.  nCircle is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with regional offices throughout the United States and in London and Toronto. Additional information about nCircle is available at www.ncircle.com.

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