Consulting Services

nCircle Consulting Services brings decades of security expertise and risk management best practices to ensure your IP360 deployment meets your enterprise risk, compliance, and vulnerability management needs. As day-to-day operational costs in managing vulnerabilities will quickly surpass initial implementation costs, involving professional services early in your deployment can dramatically reduce both cost and business risk over time by helping to shape efficient organizational processes that proactively maintain compliance with your policies, standards, and regulations.

To maximize the productivity of in-house resources, nCircle recommends following your initial training and deployment with technical, compliance and best practice assessments in the first year. This approach ensures that your IT infrastructure and vulnerability and risk management efforts successfully map to your broader compliance and business risk management requirements.

Deployment Services

nCircle deployment services are designed to assist in the initial deployment, complementing your existing resources, covering primary installation and configuration of IP360 VnE Managers and Device Profilers in your environment. nCircle Professional Services delivers initial deployments as well as on-site IP360 Administration training to get your vulnerability management system operational and staff up to speed rapidly.

Enhancement Services

nCircle enhancement services extend and tailor the core functionality of the nCircle platform to address specific customer needs, including:

• Suite360 Intelligence Hub - Configure one or more VnEs to export data to an external relational database to provide centralized data access and custom reporting.
• Custom Rule Development - Enable customers to identify custom applications, specific vulnerabilities or policy compliance issues.

Risk Management Services

nCircle risk management services can greatly reduce business risk through safe processes, including:

• Our compliance assessment service uses IP360 to evaluate the customer's current security position against its compliance strategy. This effort involves both information security best practices in accordance with CobiT and ISO 17799 in addition to regulatory and audit requirements such as SB 1386, Sarbanes-Oxley, SAS 70, FISMA, IAVA to illustrate a trend towards reduced risk.
  
  
• Best Practices Services – Our best practices services defines strategies to leverage IP360 data and reporting between multiple departments and to develop information security and operations policies. Deliverables include full documentation of the effort and a complete knowledge transfer to the customer vulnerability management team.