SAN FRANCISCO, February 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- New version delivers increased automation and world's first automated
asset value assignment for improved security and compliance auditing and
remediation

nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing
solutions, today announced the latest version of its Suite360 Intelligence
Hub (SIH), the advanced reporting and analytics solution for nCircle
Suite360. SIH 2.1 is the world's first and only solution to incorporate
automated asset value assignment, saving valuable time and delivering an
order of magnitude improvement in prioritizing security and compliance
remediation tasks. Suite360 Intelligence Hub 2.1 also adds features that
simplify audits and user management including role-based access control,
flexible asset grouping, and integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

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Today's economic challenges are increasing pressure on IT organizations
to improve security and compliance with fewer resources. "Senior executives
and other business managers are demanding more action-oriented reporting on
security organizations' activities and progress, and this trend will
continue. IT and security budgets will become more constrained, and the
demand that security organizations do more with less will intensify," noted
Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Wheatman, in The Do's and Don'ts of Information
Security Metrics, October 2008. The latest release of nCircle Suite360
Intelligence Hub is designed to ease the administrative burden of security
and compliance auditing through increased automation, centralized management,
and robust segregation of duties.

Suite360 Intelligence Hub is the self-service security and compliance
portal for the enterprise, providing configurable, audit-ready reporting and
analytics for all enterprise audiences. New features in SIH 2.1 include:

-- Granular role-based access control, enabling segregation of duties as
required by auditors. Administrators can choose role capabilities that allow
specific users to manage asset groups, configure reports, save reports,
manage other users, and more.

-- Integration with Microsoft Active Directory, enabling administrators to
manage accounts, roles, and system access in a single system, saving time and
resources.

-- Flexible asset grouping, providing a manageable asset inventory that
maps to business objectives. Asset grouping enables administrators to
arbitrarily group assets by network, business unit, regulation, and more.

-- Automated asset value assignment, a rule-based asset value assignment
feature that enables a composite metric that ranks security and compliance
issues not only by severity, but also by the asset's value to the business.
Customers can design custom automated asset value calculations based on
multiple criteria, such as IP range (e.g. the DMZ), type of installed
software (e.g. Oracle), and more.

The new features in SIH 2.1 help IT administrators save time and
resources; they can more easily delegate tasks with role-based access
controls, group networked assets in ways that make sense to their business,
and use the unique automated asset value assignment to better prioritize
remediation of security and configuration issues across the global IT
network. The latest version of SIH delivers highly flexible and customizable
governance, risk and compliance dashboards, with actionable reporting that
drives measurable, cost effective results that reduce security risk and
achieve compliance.

"nCircle continues to focus on building solutions that help customers
streamline and optimize their security and compliance auditing processes,"
said Mark Wood, Vice President of Product Management, nCircle. "Suite360
Intelligence Hub version 2.1 saves customers time and money through increased
automation and improved resource utilization."

About nCircle Suite360

nCircle Suite360 is the world's most comprehensive automated security
risk and compliance audit solution. Suite360 combines the broadest discovery
and auditing 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(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, Topology Risk
Analyzer(TM) for line-of-sight security risk analysis and Suite360
Intelligence Hub(TM) 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 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 www.ncircle.com.

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