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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Shelley Boose of Shev Rush PR, +1-408-398-6987, for nCircle / Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051214/SFW028LOGO
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