SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- New offerings expand nCircle's integrated product line to deliver the world's most comprehensive agentless solution for security risk and compliance management

nCircle, the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced a broadening of its security risk and compliance management portfolio with the release of new products and expanded agentless coverage through the first half of 2008. The past six months have represented an unprecedented period of growth in nCircle's solution portfolio, with the release of its web application scanning solution nCircle WebApp360(TM), the new top-of-the-line nCircle VnE 5100(TM) management appliance, new governance, risk and compliance (GRC) reports and dashboards, and unsurpassed agentless coverage growth to over 18,000 conditions. The new offerings help nCircle's customers improve security and ensure compliance across their enterprise networks with unprecedented accuracy and cost effectiveness.

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In the past several years, companies and government agencies have been dealt a dual challenge -- managing an increasingly complex regulatory environment and addressing the rapid growth of vulnerabilities in web applications that have blurred their network's edge. Enterprises today need integrated solutions that provide both automated compliance and improved security, enabling IT teams to do more with less. nCircle has focused on those needs in 2008, and the results include:

-- WebApp360, a web application scanning solution that provides a prioritized assessment of security risk for production web applications across an entire global network. Built on nCircle IP360(TM), the industry's leading vulnerability and risk management platform, customers can now gain a comprehensive, normalized view of risk across their entire IT technology stack, from web application to network router and all layers in between, in a single integrated solution -- New risk, compliance and analytics dashboards designed to provide enterprises with greater visibility into their IT governance, risk and compliance processes -- VnE 5100, a highly scalable, high performance vulnerability management appliance designed for very large enterprises with hundreds of thousands of networked assets -- Further integration of nCircle PCI solutions, providing a unified view of internal and external PCI compliance -- Increased agentless coverage to over 18,000 system conditions, including configurations, vulnerabilities, applications, and operating systems commonly found on enterprise networks

"Today's enterprises face increasing challenges to secure their networks and comply with a myriad of regulations," said Tim Keanini, CTO, nCircle. "nCircle's latest security and compliance solutions provide the accurate and actionable intelligence about systems on the network to drive cost effective IT governance, risk and compliance management."

About nCircle Solutions

nCircle provides the world's most comprehensive agentless solution for security risk and compliance management. nCircle's product line includes IP360(TM) for vulnerability and risk management, WebApp360(TM) for web application vulnerability auditing, Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM)(TM) for configuration auditing and file integrity monitoring, Certified PCI Scan Service(TM) for on-demand self-service PCI scanning, and Security Intelligence Hub(TM) for IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) reporting and analytics.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 4,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to manage and reduce security risk and automate 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 USA and in London, Toronto and Tokyo. 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.

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