Press Releases
nCircle Partners with Microsoft to Protect Customers
San Francisco, CA — Oct. 14, 2008 — nCircle, the leader in security risk and configuration auditing solutions, today announced an agreement with Microsoft that will provide nCircle with advanced notice of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins to anticipate emerging threats and provide mutual customers with more comprehensive and timely protections.
nCircle joined the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), and will be provided with vulnerability information in advance of Microsoft’s monthly security update releases, to offer protections to customers efficiently and effectively. nCircle’s commitment to rapid coverage for critical Microsoft vulnerabilities has been backed by a 24-hour Service Level Agreement for over four years. This partnership with Microsoft will enable nCircle to provide the highest quality detection signatures exactly at or near the time of the monthly Microsoft patch releases, ensuring that customers can detect and prioritize these vulnerabilities faster and more accurately than ever before to reduce overall risk on their global networks.
“Security is an industry-wide challenge that requires industry-wide cooperation. With Microsoft Active Protections Program, nCircle and Microsoft continue to show each company’s commitment to industry partnerships that help protect customers,” said Tim Keanini, CTO, nCircle. “nCircle is the market leader in providing the broadest and deepest automated vulnerability and exposure detection, currently providing checks for over 18,000 conditions. By receiving vulnerability information earlier, nCircle customers will benefit by automatically discovering the latest vulnerabilities on their networks with greater speed and accuracy reducing their window of risk.”
“Our partners share our passion for industry collaboration to protect a world full of Internet users,” said Mark Miller, director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing product management. “No one company can accomplish this by itself. That is why we are partnering with nCircle to advance and improve security.”
For more information on MAPP, please visit http://www.ncircle.com/mapp/ or http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/mapp/partners.mspx
About nCircle Suite360
nCircle provides the world's most comprehensive suite of solutions for agentless security and configuration auditing for physical and virtual IT environments. nCircle's solutions combine the broadest discovery of networked systems and their operating systems, applications, vulnerabilities and configurations with advanced analytics to help enterprises reduce security risk and achieve compliance. nCircle's solutions include IP360™ for vulnerability management, WebApp360™ for web application vulnerability auditing, Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM)™ for configuration auditing and file integrity monitoring, Certified PCI Scan Service™ for on-demand self-service PCI scanning, and Suite360 Intelligence Hub™ for IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) reporting and analytics.
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.
nCircle is a registered trademark of nCircle Network Security, Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.