SAN FRANCISCO, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Suite delivers industry's most comprehensive IT audit capabilities in a single product line

nCircle today announced its unified security and compliance auditing suite, nCircle Suite360. Suite360 delivers a fully integrated, best-in-class, agentless product line for auditing the entire information technology stack across a global network. nCircle Suite360 provides the world's most comprehensive, integrated auditing solution that is economical to acquire, fast to deploy, easy to manage and scales to the largest global networks.

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In today's increasingly regulated business climate, demand for solutions that help organizations become more secure and compliant is rapidly growing. But meeting the requirements of increasingly demanding regulations while reducing exposure to sophisticated threats can no longer be left to a mixed-bag of point products. The IT compliance manager faces a dramatically shifting landscape in 2008, with new demands for a comprehensive and unified approach to multiregulatory compliance, demonstrated performance benefits from compliance investments and integration with risk management efforts, according to a Gartner report (Top Five Issues and Research Agenda, 2008: The IT Compliance Manager by French Caldwell, March 2008).

nCircle Suite360 uniquely delivers on this challenge. Comprised of agentless network discovery, configuration auditing, vulnerability management, web application scanning, file integrity monitoring and IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) reporting, Suite360 delivers the industry's most advanced security and compliance auditing solution. With an ever-growing library of over 18,000 automated checks, Suite360 sets the industry standard for continuous, automatic discovery of networked systems, vulnerabilities, applications and services; as well as providing comprehensive auditing of configuration compliance and file integrity monitoring across an enterprise's global network. By incorporating objective measurement and consistent scoring across the full product line, nCircle Suite360 eliminates the confusion and high costs associated with the acquisition, deployment and management of separate point solutions.

Security and compliance continue to be the leading concerns for CIOs and CISOs, said Tim Keanini, CTO at nCircle. To meet these challenges, enterprises need a comprehensive, highly scalable and fully integrated security and compliance auditing solution. nCircle Suite360 provides a unified view of enterprise IT security risk and compliance with unprecedented time-to-results and low cost of ownership.

nCircle's IT auditing suite combines unparalleled insight into networked systems and their operating systems, applications, vulnerabilities and configurations, with advanced analytics to help enterprises reduce security risk and achieve compliance. Suite360 includes:

-- IP360(TM) for vulnerability management -- Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM)(TM) for configuration Compliance management -- Topology Risk Analyzer(TM) for line of sight risk analysis -- WebApp360(TM) for web application scanning -- CCM File Integrity Monitor(TM) for file integrity monitoring and compliance -- Certified PCI Scan Service(TM) for on demand, self-service PCI compliance -- Suite360 Intelligence Hub(TM) for IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) analytics and reporting

As part of Suite360, nCircle has released Suite360 Intelligence Hub version 2.0. Suite360 Intelligence Hub now delivers integrated analytics and reporting across the full nCircle Suite360 product line to provide customers unprecedented insight into their global network's security and compliance posture. Featuring executive dashboards for instant analysis and deep drill-down reporting and advanced analytics for disciplined management, Suite360 Intelligence Hub answers key questions that every CIO and CISO must answer:

-- How secure and compliant is our network? -- Which top issues must we address today to improve security and achieve compliance? -- Who is accountable and how are they doing?

nCircle Suite360 and nCircle Suite360 Intelligence Hub are available immediately.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions. More than 4,000 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 http://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.

Web site: http://www.ncircle.com

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