nCircle Partners with Citadel Security Software to Integrate Leading Vulnerability and Patch Management Solutions
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - nCircle, the leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability management solutions, today announced a strategic technology partnership with Citadel Security Software Inc. (NASDAQ:CDSS). Through this partnership, the nCircle IP360 Vulnerability Management System will integrate with Citadel Hercules®, providing enterprises with an automated solution to discover, prioritize and remediate network vulnerabilities and effectively reduce business risk.
Together, nCircle and Citadel will provide customers with a complete solution that automates the entire vulnerability management lifecycle - from IT asset discovery and assessment to remediation, enforcement of security policies, and on demand reporting. nCircle and Citadel customers can reduce the time and costs associated with fixing vulnerabilities, while ensuring a secure IT environment through proactive policy enforcement.
"Partnering with nCircle builds on our business strategy to provide a proactive approach to securing an organization's computer networks," said Steve Solomon, CEO for Citadel. "By incorporating nCircle's actionable intelligence on vulnerabilities Hercules is able to focus its remediation efforts on the highest priority devices before they can be exploited."
nCircle's IP360 is an appliance-based, enterprise-class vulnerability management system that is quickly deployed and easily managed across globally distributed networks. IP360 continuously discovers, assesses, and monitors all IP-based devices within a network to proactively identify and correct conditions that could compromise network assets or increase risk from security policy violations.
Citadel's Hercules is the first enterprise-class vulnerability remediation solution to automate the resolution of all classes of vulnerabilities. With the largest library of tested vulnerability remedies across Windows and UNIX platforms and interoperability with industry leading network scanners and vulnerability assessment tools, Hercules has been successfully deployed across large commercial and government enterprises.
Detailed vulnerability data gathered by nCircle's unique profiling technology is coupled with Hercules extensive library of remediations to provide customers with the intelligence they need to efficiently address vulnerabilities on their network to reduce exposure, comply with internal and external policies and track performance over time.
"We're pleased to partner with Citadel Security Software, a leader in vulnerability remediation and a natural complement to nCircle's strengths in enterprise-class vulnerability management," said Abe Kleinfeld, president and CEO, nCircle. "We share a common vision in providing customers with the next generation of proactive security solutions that will enable them to more effectively measure, manage and reduce risk in their global networks."
About nCircle
nCircle is the leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability management solutions. Global enterprises in the financial services, insurance, government, manufacturing and services industries rely on nCircle to protect their business critical networks. nCircle's complete lifecycle vulnerability management solutions enable enterprises to find and eliminate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, ensure security policy compliance and meaningfully measure and manage business risk. The company, located in San Francisco, CA, is privately held and VC funded. Additional information about nCircleis available at www.ncircle.com.