nCircle Enriches Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Program With PCI Compliance Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- nCircle, the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that it has expanded its nAble MSSP Partner Program to include Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance solutions. The expanded program enables MSSP partners to increase their revenue by offering a number of managed services to help their customers cost-effectively monitor and comply with the industry standard using certified, best-of-breed technology.

Using nCircle's certified PCI scanning technology -- one of the first to be certified under the updated PCI standard, version 1.1 -- MSSPs can offer their customers an easy-to-use, fully automated scan service to help meet the quarterly compliance validation requirements of the standard. Basing their PCI scanning service on nCircle's proven, certified technology provides MSSPs with multiple options to address merchant compliance. MSSPs may either advise their merchant customers to use the nCircle Certified PCI Scan Service(TM) or operate nCircle's PCI scanning technology from their own network operations center to offer a branded certified service.

Additionally, MSSP partners may deploy and integrate other nCircle PCI solutions in their network operations center to profile, report on and prioritize remediation of a customer's entire payment network in preparation for an audit, saving customers ongoing operational and audit costs while improving network security risk and compliance.

"The expansion of nCircle's nAble Partner Program enables MSSPs to take advantage of a market that presents a significant growth opportunity," said Robert McGowan, Director of Business Development at nCircle. "Using nCircle's PCI solutions, our MSSP partners can offer a simple, cost-effective quarterly compliance validation service to merchants or combine them with continuous security risk monitoring and remediation to deliver a robust range of services to ensure comprehensive compliance with the PCI standard."

The nCircle nAble Partner Program offers MSSPs the leading security risk and compliance management solutions used by more than 4000 customers worldwide to improve network security risk and compliance. nCircle also provides enterprise-class support offering as part of the program. Additionally, MSSP partners benefit from nCircle's investment in the industry's largest security research and development team -- currently providing the most comprehensive coverage with over 14,000 distinct operating system, application, configuration conditions and vulnerabilities.

"nCircle uniquely enables MSSPs to offer complete customer lifecycle management -- including managed services, onsite audit capability and various configurations of data-at-customer solutions," said Gus Malezis, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at nCircle. "Combined with unmatched deployment and integration flexibility, nCircle is the only vendor with this breadth of offerings equipping MSSPs to deliver security risk and compliance management solutions to their customers, to cost-effectively improve network security risk and compliance."

About nCircle Solutions

nCircle solutions discover and profile all devices on an organization's global network enabling configuration auditing, vulnerability management, security risk management and file integrity monitoring. nCircle solutions distill the wealth of discovered information into actionable data, analytics and objective metrics that measure risk and compliance and improve the operational effectiveness of security teams, IT administrators, IT management, and auditors in addressing regulatory challenges such as PCI compliance and SOX compliance.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 4,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify, measure, manage and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation 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 USA and in London, Toronto and Tokyo. Additional information about nCircle is available at http://www.ncircle.com.

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