nCircle Announces Web Seminar Series Addressing Network Security Risk Management

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- nCircle, the leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability and risk management solutions, today announced the latest sessions in its series of web seminars, "Solving the Security Challenge." This series will provide companies with strategies and tactics to assist in their security risk management initiatives.

"We've assembled an impressive roster of industry leaders to help organizations face the challenges of security risk management. Along with our own experts, they will offer valuable advice in our latest series of web sessions," stated Elizabeth Ireland, vice president of marketing at nCircle.

  This web seminar series includes the following sessions:

  Doomsday Scenarios
  Date: September 14, 2006, 10:00 am PDT

Esteemed analyst Richard Stiennon will illuminate the latest challenges facing security professionals in the constantly evolving threat landscape. He will discuss issues on the security and threat horizon that enterprises need to prepare for today: What are the disruptions and attacks that threaten businesses and the economy? What are the variables driving them? What innovative risk management techniques can enterprises employ to mitigate these threats?

  Streamlining Compliance
  Date: September 28, 2006, 10:00 am PDT

Effective implementation of a compliance strategy requires overcoming many hurdles: Creating a comprehensive view of the network. Automating manual, risk-prone processes. Standardizing procedures across the enterprise. Sharing information effectively throughout the organization. And employing tools to continuously monitor compliance. Ken Lieberman, Risk Management Consultant and former Executive VP for Information Assurance at Visa, will discuss how to overcome these hurdles and implement a sustainable compliance strategy; and nCircle will demonstrate solutions to help meet compliance requirements using the COBIT framework.

  Three Steps to PCI Compliance
  Date: October 12, 2006, 10:00 am PDT

Complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard can be confusing, time-consuming and resource-intensive. With fines of up to $500,000 for non-compliance, the ability to rapidly demonstrate compliance is important. In this session, we will help you navigate through the PCI Data Security Standard guidelines and show how nCircle solutions can simplify attaining and maintaining PCI compliance.

  Quantifying Network Risk
  Date: October 26, 2006, 10:00 am PDT

Understanding what devices and exposures exist on your network is a critical first step to vulnerability management. Effective risk management, however, also requires the ability to rank identified risks to prioritize remediation. This scoring enables organizations to measure remediation effectiveness and track changes in their risk posture over time. This session will clarify the capabilities of nCircle's innovative vulnerability and risk management solutions, and demonstrate how nCircle's unique scoring methodology can help cost-effectively measure, manage, and reduce your network security risk.

  Operationalizing Risk Management
  Date: November 9, 2006, 10:00 am PST

The next generation of security best practices relies on a metrics-driven, risk-focused approach. Experienced CISO Phil Heneghan will share the approach successfully implemented around the world by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This approach is now a best practice -- as USAID is the only Federal agency to earn a second consecutive "A" on the Federal Information Security Management Act scorecard. This session will be an interactive discussion covering USAID's operational implementation and challenges, organizational dynamics, processes employed and lessons learned.

  Standardizing Security
  Date: November 30, 2006, 10:00 am PST

The role of current and emerging security standards in vulnerability and risk management

Enterprises in every industry rely on rules for interoperability that are governed by agreed industry standards. As the vulnerability and risk management market matures, many standards are emerging to create common measurements of risk. Tim Keanini, nCircle's CTO, will discuss current and developing standards and help identify which ones are important to follow.

  Hackers, Generals, and Wall Street
  Date: December 7, 2006, 10:00 am PST

Information security professionals regularly discuss the nature of risk in the IT environment; however, there is a great deal to learn about risk management from other disciplines. Minoo Hamilton, nCircle's Senior Vulnerability Researcher, will examine risk management models from a military operations and financial services perspective and discuss the applicability of lessons learned over hundreds of years to the challenges inherent in managing risk in information security.

To register for the web seminar series or for additional information, please visit ncircle.com/webinar.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability and risk management solutions. Global enterprises and government agencies rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify, measure, manage and reduce security risk on their worldwide networks. nCircle has won numerous industry awards for its growth, innovation and technology leadership and has been named one of the top 100 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. nCircle is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with regional offices throughout the U.S. and in London, Toronto and Tokyo. Additional information about nCircle is available at http://www.ncircle.com/.

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