nCircle Announces Major Updates to Its Suite360™ Automated Security and Compliance Auditing Suite

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced new versions of every product in nCircle Suite360, the world's most comprehensive suite of products that enables organizations to improve security and achieve compliance. The updated products include significant new features, performance enhancements and an increase of coverage that allows nCircle customers to scan their networks for over 48,000 conditions that can impact their information security risk.

“nCircle has always focused on creating actionable security and compliance intelligence for the largest, most important networks in the world,” noted Tim Keanini, chief technology officer at nCircle. “This release contains a lot of valuable individual features, but together they make it easier for our customers to achieve continuous monitoring and improve security and compliance.”

New features and functionality in each Suite360 product include:

nCircle IP360™ version 6.9

IP360, nCircle’s market leading vulnerability and risk management system, comprehensively profiles all networked devices and includes coverage for over 48,000 conditions including operating systems, applications, vulnerabilities and configurations – far more than any other vendor. IP360 is designed for rapid deployment and ease of management and provides the ideal foundation to assess and measure risk on the entire network.

IP360 version 6.9 includes a new widget-based, configurable, interactive dashboard that provides instant access to often-used features and at-a-glance system information. The new version also includes a significant update to IP360’s robust, best in class API. The new interactive dashboard features a variety of drag-and-drop widgets including:

• Instant nCircle Focus™ query
• nCircle Twitter feed
• Instant access to on demand scanning

nCircle WebApp360™ version 2.0

nCircle WebApp360 is tightly integrated with nCircle IP360 and is the only web application vulnerability management product that delivers a holistic view of web application weaknesses including the web application, adjacent applications and underlying operating systems, and delivers this information in the context of security risk in the enterprise.

WebApp360 version 2.0 includes improved performance, stability, scalability, and accuracy. Using a new, extensible IP360 architecture, WebApp360 2.0 runs as a parallel scan process on nCircle’s physical and virtual Device Profiler (DP) appliances resulting in a heuristic scanner truly optimized for application security. Performance improvements mean shorter scan times and improved accuracy, making it even easier to integrate web application scanning into an organization's vulnerability management program.

New WebApp360 2.0 features include:

• Coverage in all Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 web application vulnerability categories
• Coverage in 11 of 14 web application vulnerability categories in NIST SP 500-269
• Web application vulnerability report in the nCircle Suite360 Intelligence Hub identifies and prioritizes web application vulnerabilities
• Improved compatibility with web applications through the use of standards-based implementations of HTTP and SSL/TLS
• Improved support for enterprise authentication mechanisms

nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager™ version 5.11

Configuration Compliance Manager automates configuration auditing, change monitoring and configuration compliance processes utilizing an agentless design that enables customers to monitor configurations across their entire networks.

Version 5.11 adds new United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) policies as well as several key features that make it easier to agentlessly gather configurations of large numbers of devices.

Configuration Compliance Manager new features include:

• Centralized credentials management that simplifies the creation and ongoing management of endpoint credentials
• Support for overlapping IP address space
• Support for multiple scan engine interfaces that enables both active and passive scans on any available interface
• New policy: USGCB Windows 7 v1.1 Policy
• New policy: USGCB Windows 7 Firewall v1.1
• New Policy: USGCB Internet Explorer 8
• New Policy: DISA STIG Microsoft SQL 2005

nCircle Suite360 Intelligence Hub™ version 2.4

Suite360 Intelligence Hub is the reporting and advanced analytics platform for nCircle’s integrated solutions, providing centralized reporting for all enterprise audiences.

Version 2.4 delivers the following enhancements:

• A WebApp360 report that enables users to focus on areas of greatest risk by separating web application vulnerabilities from operating system and application vulnerabilities. A patch-centric report that identifies all systems that need a specific patch, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of IT patching programs
• The ability to include or exclude exceptions in the executive dashboard view
• nCircle Support Center, which provides access to a library of troubleshooting procedures and online help

Increased Vulnerability and Configuration Coverage

nCircle VERT (Vulnerability and Exposures Research Team) develops, tests and delivers an ever-growing library of over 48,000 condition checks including vulnerabilities, configurations, operating systems and applications. VERT’s most recent update now covers 100% of Oracle database vulnerabilities from version 8 to version 11 across all platforms. Additionally, VERT released new Apple coverage including OS X and major OS X applications including Microsoft Office, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Acrobat and Flash. These significant coverage enhancements reflect nCircle’s continued commitment to deliver the most comprehensive vulnerability discovery available for enterprise networks.

New versions of all products are now available. For more information visit www.ncircle.com.

About nCircle Suite360

nCircle provides the world's most comprehensive suite of solutions for agentless security and configuration auditing of physical and virtual IT environments. nCircle's solutions combine the broadest discovery of networked systems and their operating systems, applications, vulnerabilities and configurations with advanced analytics to help enterprises reduce security risk and achieve compliance. nCircle's solutions include IP360™ for vulnerability management, WebApp360™ for web application vulnerability auditing, Configuration Compliance Manager™ (CCM) for configuration auditing and file integrity monitoring, Certified PCI Scan Service™ for on-demand self-service PCI scanning, and Suite360 Intelligence Hub™ for IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) reporting and analytics.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions. More than 5,500 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 and has been ranked among the top 100 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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.

SRPRShelley Boose408-398-6987

Source: nCircle