Archived Web Seminars

Below is a list of nCircle's most recent web seminars. Click on the topic below to view the recorded WebEx event.

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Leveraging Automated Control Objective Auditing Webinar
In one hour, gain the insights and guidance you need to measure compliance, reduce manual efforts, and streamline executive and auditor reporting.

Web Applications and Information Security: Tools and Tactics
Learn how operational assessment of web applications can be effectively combined with vulnerability management using nCircle’s WebApp360.

Automating Security & FDCC Compliance Auditing
During this session nCircle will provide a comprehensive overview and demonstration of nCircle’s Configuration Compliance Manager. Hosted by nCircle’s Natalia Smishko, you will learn how nCircle with SCAP-validated solutions can help you comply with policy and leverage the same technology to improve overall network security. Spend an hour with us and you will be armed with the tools you need to easily, efficiently, and cost-effectively meet compliance and secure your network.

Using nCircle PCI Solutions to Stay Compliant
Informative webinar to learn how to achieve and maintain PCI compliance using nCircle’s Certified PCI Scan Service, nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager, nCircle File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and Suite360 Intelligence Hub.

Addressing NERC CIP Compliance Challenges
Addressing NERC CIP Compliance Challenges with Expert Panel and Security & Compliance Auditing Solution Demonstration

Automating HIPAA Compliance with Security and Configuration Auditing
Learn how nCircle can help you comply with the HIPAA security requirements and leverage the same technology to improve overall network security.

Leveraging the Convergence of Security and Compliance

Best Practices for:
Effective IT Governance, Security Risk and Compliance
Scott Crawford, Research Director of Enterprise Management Associates, will examine key enablers in the emerging discipline of strategic IT operations risk management driven by the convergence of regulatory compliance and security requirements.  Scott will be joined by Mark Wood, VP of Product Management at nCircle, to demonstrate how change and configuration discipline supports effective IT governance

Fearless E-Commerce:
Implementing File Integrity Monitoring for Security and PCI Compliance
Join PCI expert Dave Shackleford, currently serving as the Vice President of the Center for Internet Security and Sweta Duseja, Compliance Management at nCircle as we talk about ensuring the integrity of your payment network to increase customer confidence during online transactions with your business. 

Standardizing Security Operations:
Using NIST's Security Content Automation Program (SCAP) to increase security and network performance and lower operating costs
Join John Banghart (Project Lead, SCAP Compliance) and Tim Keanini, CTO, nCircle for an overview and demonstration of how NIST's Security Content Automation Program (SCAP) can be beneficial in achieving compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and other compliance requirements and how adoption increases security, increases network performance, and lowers operating costs.

Saving Money, Reducing Risk:
Continuous Configuration Auditing Using Industry Standards and Benchmarks
Clint Kreitner, President of the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and Mark Wood, Vice President of Product Management at nCircle present best practices in establishing a security risk and configuration management program incorporating the security configuration benchmarks from CIS. This demonstrated, integrated approach to risk management will reduce manual efforts, save money and enable repeatable and consistent results.

Solving the Security Challenge

PCI v1.1: How Not to Become a Headline - Featuring PCI Expert, Dave Shackleford
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) continues to demand the highest levels of protection of cardholder data and security of payment systems, making comprehensive, continuous PCI compliance a daunting task. Presented by industry expert, Dave Shackleford, currently serving as the Vice President at the Center for Internet Security, and Tim Erlin, Principal Product Manager at nCircle, we address topics like the best practices for PCI compliance, creating a comprehensive, sustainable PCI security risk management program, choosing the right PCI compliance partners and how nCircle PCI solutions can keep you from becoming the next headline!

Ending the Audit Fire Drill: Automated Enterprise Configuration Compliance
Compliance is a fact of life for today's large enterprises, but everything else doesn't have to be put on hold when it's audit time. Join nCircle to see how automated configuration compliance can reduce manual efforts, save money, and provide repeatability and consistency to your compliance process.

From the Boardroom to the Server Room:
Targeted, Actionable Reporting for All Audiences
Different organizational roles require unique tools and specific reporting to be most effective. Come learn how nCircle delivers tools to maximize operational effectiveness for security and IT teams, from actionable technical reports to dashboards and audit framework reports that create visibility and accountability for the highest levels of the organization.

Solving the Risk & Compliance Equation with Agentless Technology
Security risk and compliance management poses unique challenges to large enterprises, and the solution lies in automated, agentless network discovery. Join us for a demonstration of how nCircle's patented discovery technology, multi-level reporting, and focused analytics can improve security and operational effectiveness.

PCI v1.1: How Not to Become a Headline
What is the PCI Data Security Standard? How different is the updated version of the standard? How does it affect my online environment? Whom should I partner with to ensure compliance? These are just some of the questions we answer during this session. We also show you how the nCircle Certified PCI Scan Service can simplify attaining compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard v1.1 and stop you from becoming the next headline!

Hackers, Generals, and Wall Street: Applying cross-discipline risk management strategies to network security
Information security professionals regularly discuss the nature of risk in the IT environment; however, there is a great deal to learn about risk management from other disciplines. Minoo Hamilton, nCircle's Senior Vulnerability Researcher, will examine risk management models from a military operations and financial services perspective and discuss the applicability of lessons learned over hundreds of years to the challenges inherent in managing risk in information security.

Standardizing Security: The role of current and emerging security standards in vulnerability and risk management
Enterprises in every industry rely on rules for interoperability that are governed by agreed industry standards. As the vulnerability and risk management market matures, many standards are emerging to create common measurements of risk. Tim Keanini, nCircle's CTO, will discuss current and developing standards and help identify which ones are important to follow.

Operationalizing Risk Management: A metrics-based approach to comprehensive risk management
The next generation of security best practices relies on a metrics-driven, risk-focused approach. Experienced CISO, Phil Heneghan will share the approach successfully implemented around the world by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This approach is now a best practice -- as USAID is the only Federal agency to earn a second consecutive "A" on the Federal Information Security Management Act scorecard. This session will be an interactive discussion covering USAID's operational implementation and challenges, organizational dynamics, processes employed and lessons learned.

Quantifying Network Risk: Using nCircle's unique approach to solve the network security challenge
Understanding what devices and exposures exist on your network is a critical first step to vulnerability management. Effective risk management, however, also requires the ability to rank identified risks to prioritize remediation. This scoring enables organizations to measure remediation effectiveness and track changes in their risk posture over time. This session will clarify the capabilities of nCircle's innovative vulnerability and risk management solutions, and demonstrate how nCircle's unique scoring methodology can help cost-effectively measure, manage, and reduce your network security risk.

Three Steps to PCI Compliance: Meeting the PCI network scanning requirements
Complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard can be confusing, time-consuming and resource-intensive. With fines of up to $500,000 for non-compliance, the ability to rapidly demonstrate compliance is important. In this session, we help you navigate through the PCI Data Security Standard guidelines and show how nCircle solutions can simplify attaining and maintaining PCI compliance.

Streamlining Compliance: Demonstrating sustainable compliance using the CobiT framework
Effective implementation of a compliance strategy requires overcoming many hurdles: Creating a comprehensive view of the network. Automating manual, risk-prone processes. Standardizing procedures across the enterprise. Sharing information effectively throughout the organization. And employing tools to continuously monitor compliance. Ken Lieberman, Risk Management Consultant and former Executive VP for Information Assurance at Visa, discusses how to overcome these hurdles and implement a sustainable compliance strategy; and nCircle demonstrates how our solutions can help you meet compliance requirements using the CobiT framework.

Doomsday Scenarios: Understanding the variables driving doomsday scenarios and strategies to protect your organization
Esteemed analyst Richard Stiennon illuminates the latest challenges facing security professionals in the constantly evolving threat landscape.  He discusses issues on the security and threat horizon that enterprises need to prepare for today: What are the disruptions and attacks that threaten businesses and the economy?  What are the variables driving them?  What innovative risk management techniques can enterprises employ to mitigate these threats?

1+1=3: Ensuring Business Continuity Through Risk and Incident Response
In the event of a network attack, customers need in-depth analysis of their network environment to effectively remediate it. They typically need two kinds of information to aid their effort: real-time network traffic analysis to and from impacted devices as well detailed information on their corresponding vulnerabilities. This Web Seminar provides the solution that helps customers gain comprehensive, actionable information to accelerate remediation of the enterprise network and proactively prevent an attack from affecting it all - all in a single framework.

Beyond Reporting: Instant, Actionable Security Data Analysis
Join nCircle as we present the next major advancement in network security data analysis. nCircle has broken the traditional reporting paradigm with nCircle Focus, a new active analysis technology that puts actionable network security data at your fingertips. See five real-world scenarios that show how nCircle Focus can save you valuable time and have an immediate impact in your organization.

nCircle Security Risk Management Solution Overview
Are you interested in measuring, managing, and reducing your network security risk? Then join nCircle as we present an overview of our award-winning Security Risk Management solutions that help lower your overall network security risk using fewer resources at the lowest possible cost. This web seminar will include live product demonstrations of nCircle solutions.

Leveraging Vulnerability and Risk Management to Achieve Comprehensive, Sustainable Compliance
While the topic of risk management is not new, what is new is the need to identify formalized solutions to measure, manage, and reduce risk. These same solutions can be used to audit and illustrate the success of an organization's efforts to achieve regulatory and policy compliance. nCircle offers you the opportunity to learn how to invest in the right technology to manage and reduce enterprise-wide risk while driving towards long-term regulatory and policy compliance.

The Changing Threat Environment: Staying Ahead of the Curve
The vulnerability management industry has evolved significantly from the early days of attack-driven tools to the enterprise-wide compliance and topological discovery that is currently the norm. Mike Murray, nCircle's Director of Vulnerability and Exposure Research, will highlight the important trends in vulnerability management and discuss current and future approaches to security and risk management.

nCircle Focus: Improving Security Operations with Active Data Analysis
Enterprise security teams are stretched to their limit every day and are forced to make difficult decisions about where to spend their time. What they need is comprehensive network and risk information at their fingertips that they can analyze and synthesize instantly as the threat environment changes. Learn how nCircle Focus, a breakthrough new technology from nCircle, enables security teams to actively analyze information about their networks and effectively reduce enterprise risk.

Meeting Canadian Regulatory Requirements with Effective Risk Management
Canadian government and business information security regulations are among the most stringent in North America. Canada's strict privacy laws (PIPEDA) create a significant standard of due-care around security for databases and systems that process customer information. In addition, due to the proximity to the US, many Canadian businesses are required to comply with (or at least understand) the regulations in the United States (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, GLBA). In this webinar, we'll discuss how an effective strategy of security risk management will help Canadian businesses navigate the regulatory minefield and government agencies meet the compliance requirements of PSEPC, MITS and other related standards.

USAID Case Study: A Risk Management Approach to Security Compliance
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 100 countries. USAID is the only Federal agency to receive an A+ in their Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scoring for two consecutive years. nCircle is the foundation technology used to deliver these results. Government agencies and commercial enterprise alike will benefit from hearing the risk management approach USAID has taken and the process and measurements used to ensure their global systems are secure and compliant.

Know your Network Security Risk

Cultivating the Enterprise for Proactive Network Security
"Brush your teeth! Change your password! Digitally sign your email! Validate that certificate!" Without knowing the value of these tasks, it just seems like more work. Most individuals and ultimately organizations as a whole do not understand the value of information security until there is loss. Until you have a toothache, your brushing regimen might be less than perfect. Getting an organization to take a more active role in information security is an essential change for your organization's survival. This webinar will help you cultivate a more security-aware culture within your organization by demonstrating techniques and strategies that deliver a value- and intelligence-based proposition of risk management for the individual, the department, the business unit and the enterprise.

Security - The Business Challenge
Steve Katz, a prominent figure in network security and the world's first Chief Information Security Officer will discuss how objective security metrics like advanced analytics and dashboard reporting can help enterprises tackle the challenges associated with safeguarding their networks and business critical assets and data. In addition to his roles since 1985 as the senior security executive for JP Morgan, Citibank/Citigroup, and most recently Merrill Lynch, Steve has been a force at both industry and government levels in raising the visibility and shaping the direction of the security industry.

Balancing Your Security Ecosystem

Deperimiterization - Building a Multi-Level Security Strategy to Prevent Infiltration
With the continued trend toward out-sourcing, growing numbers of hand-held devices to corporate networks, and expansion of third-party business relationships, the traditional view of the network border as a "hard shell" has been replaced by a porous, more permissive border. Michael Murray, Director of Vulnerability and Exposure Research of nCircle, will discuss how IT security departments can manage the challenges that this shift presents through a better understanding of network topology and risk management.

Aberdeen Group's Network & Infrastructure Security Best Practices
Analyst Stacey Quandt of Aberdeen Group will talk about how a leading telecommunications company using the nCircle IP360 solution for vulnerability and risk management was selected as one of the top 10 enterprise implementations demonstrating best practices in network and infrastructure security.

Prioritize Your Security Investments

Enhancing IPS Effectiveness With Endpoint Intelligence
Intrusion Prevention Systems are an important piece of the enterprise security ecosystem. Integrating IPS with endpoint intelligence provides higher detection accuracy and fewer false alerts, ultimately enabling IT staff to focus on truly valid attacks against vulnerable hosts. Learn how nCircle's nTellect for Cisco IDS/IPS reduces false alerts by up to 90%.

Network Topology Analysis: The Most Effective Way to Prioritize Security Initiatives
Learn how nCircle's new Topology Risk Analyzer prioritizes risk remediation using network topology, or "line of sight", enabling IT staff to focus on the top 10-15 vulnerabilities that put the network most at risk.

Analyzing Your Network Security Risk with nCircle's Suite360 Intelligence Hub
Discover how you can take advantage of IP360's open architecture to integrate the network intelligence gathered by IP360 and your existing systems and leverage that intelligence to measure, manage, and reduce network risk. Learn how nCircle's Suite360 Intelligence Hub goes beyond simply discovering vulnerabilities and enables the intelligence-based security ecosystem.

Best Practices in Vulnerability Management

What Works To Reduce Security Vulnerabilities (register through SANS site)

A SANS "What Works" Webinar
The SANS What Works initiative employs SANS research with a best user story for a specific piece of security technology, in this case Vulnerability Management. This webinar is a conversation between Alan Paller of the SANS Institute, and Bill Geimer, Information Security Program Manger for the US Agency for International Development about how this real, live user solved a bona-fide problem with nCircle. Bill will discuss how he was able to help USAID implement a new system that scans effectively, is designed as an enterprise system, is easy to manage and use, and has good traffic throttling and documented, detailed criticality ratings. Using the new technology, USAID has radically reduced vulnerabilities and gotten strong support from the system administrators and their managers.

Current Trends in Network Security

Internal Security Compliance and Best Practices
In this web seminar we'll show you how to measure, manage and improve your internal security posture, as well as streamline your compliance processes. We'll outline the most effective compliance strategies like base-lining and trending using nCircle's IP360 Vulnerability Management System. You'll also learn best practices for reducing your inherent security risk.

Security Best Practices and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Hear Chris Amos, IT Director at Centillium Communications and learn how Centillium is using nCircle's Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Solution to measure and manage ongoing compliance efforts. Public companies in the US are required to meet a standard of due care and prove their due diligence to auditors, and IP360 automates much of the repetitive, manual work involved with these efforts. In this webinar you'll hear how nCircle's IP360 Vulnerability Management System can be utilized to measure and manage security best practices to enable Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Vulnerability Management in the Enterprise
Hear firsthand how First Republic Bank has integrated vulnerability management into their overall security risk management program. You will also learn about recent trends in vulnerability management in the enterprise, and discover the benefits of the nCircle IP360 Vulnerability Management System.