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nCircle Receives Highest Possible Rating of 'Strong Positive' in Leading Analyst Firm’s Vulnerability Assessment MarketScope Report

SAN FRANCISCO— April 5, 2010— nCircle, the leader in automated IT security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced that it received a "Strong Positive" — the highest possible rating — in Gartner's 2010 "MarketScope for Vulnerability Assessment"*. nCircle's security risk and compliance auditing solution, Suite360™, delivers the broadest asset coverage, most accurate assessments and highest scalability of any solution on the market in a fully integrated product line. Suite360 includes vulnerability assessment, configuration auditing, file integrity monitoring, and IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) reporting as well as SaaS solutions for PCI scanning and HITRUST healthcare security and configuration auditing.

According to the report, "VA remains a steady growth market, with revenue estimated at $320 million in 2009 and an expected $400 million in 2010….Nonetheless, VA capabilities will continue to evolve, driven by requirements such as the extension of PCI assessments to include Web application scanning and FDCC."

"We believe Gartner's 'Strong Positive' rating for nCircle highlights the value our customers receive from our solutions," said Elizabeth Ireland, Vice President of Marketing for nCircle. "Security and compliance remain critical to organizations, and nCircle's solutions are uniquely positioned to help global enterprises improve security and achieve compliance at the lowest possible cost."

Gartner evaluated solutions for the MarketScope with the following criteria: Market Responsiveness and Track Record, Sales Execution/Pricing, Offering (Product Strategy), Product/Service, Overall Viability (Business Unit, Financial, Strategy, Organization) and Customer Experience.

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.

MarketScope Disclaimer
The MarketScope is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

*Gartner, Inc.,"MarketScope for Vulnerability Assessment," Kelly Kavanagh, Mark Nicolett, John Pescatore, February 17, 2010