[August 22, 2011]

nCircle Announces nCircle Benchmark™ Data Adapter for McAfee Vulnerability Manager

nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced the addition of native support for McAfee (News - Alert) Vulnerability Manager, formerly Foundstone, to nCircle Benchmark. nCircle Benchmark is the world's first cloud-based security and compliance benchmarking service that enables organizations to compare the performance of their entire IT security ecosystem against their own goals and industry peers.

Native support for McAfee Vulnerability Manager is enabled through nCircle's Data Adapter technology. Data Adapters transform the raw data from a wide variety of security products into useful metrics and powerful key performance indicators. These security metrics enable users to quickly assess their compliance and risk posture and compare the results to their industry peers.

"With the addition of native support for McAfee Vulnerability Manager, nCircle Benchmark now supports all common commercial vulnerability management solutions," said Jim Acquaviva, vice president of product strategy at nCircle. "nCircle places strategic importance on the availability of a wide variety of security products and user profiles in nCircle-sponsored benchmark communities. We are proud to expand market coverage of our vulnerability management Metrics Pack to make nCircle Benchmark available to a broader audience."

nCircle Benchmark Metrics Pack for Vulnerability Management is now available to all nCircle IP360, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Qualys (News - Alert) QualysGuard and Rapid7 NeXpose customers. nCircle Benchmark normalizes data across different VM products, providing a common baseline to compare Vulnerability Management results regardless of the scanning technology in use. The free Basic Edition includes scorecards and benchmarks for:

• Average risk score per host
• Average number of days sinc last vulnerability scan
• Vulnerability distribution by platform
• Vulnerability distribution by severity

nCircle Benchmark Metrics Packs

nCircle Benchmark delivers pre-packaged, field tested metrics and scorecards organized into Metrics Packs that provide complete visibility across multiple-vendor security and compliance environments. Each Metric Pack includes a comprehensive set of relevant metrics and scorecards for a specific security discipline. Together, nCircle Benchmark metrics and scorecards offer a comprehensive, at-a-glance indicator of IT investment performance.

Metrics Packs Available Now

nCircle Benchmark offers a broad range of Metrics Packs. Vulnerability Management, Configuration Auditing, Antivirus and Endpoint Protection, Identity and Access Management and Patch Management are available now. Additional Metrics Packs for Endpoint Encryption, Event Management & Incident Response and Network Protection will be available soon.

nCircle Benchmark Editions

Each Metric Pack is delivered in four editions: Basic, Standard, Premium and Enterprise. The Basic Edition of every Metrics Pack is always free and provides an initial set of metrics and scorecards. Organizations can easily expand beyond the free Basic Edition and subscribe to a broad range of additional scorecards delivered in the Standard Edition or the Premium Edition to start building internal benchmark assessments from the extensive nCircle Benchmark catalog.

Get Started Free

To get started, simply visit https://benchmark.ncircle.com/ to create an account and select a Metrics Pack. Within minutes, customers can view metrics and scorecards of their security performance and compare results to a benchmark of their peers. For a complete view of available Metrics Packs, visit https://benchmark.ncircle.com/join-a-benchmark/.

For more information, please visit the nCircle.com website.

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 (News - Alert), 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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