SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2009 — nCircle, the leader in automated security and configuration auditing solutions, today has made available a video recording of an industry experts panel on challenges and solutions for NERC compliance. The panel discussion is hosted by nCircle.
With the June 30th North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance deadlines looming and penalties of up to $1 million per day for non-compliance, nCircle has multiple resources available to help utilities improve their security and compliance.
nCircle has recently announced new security and configuration policies designed to help electric utilities comply with the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards. These policies help utilities with critical infrastructure to automate previously manual and time-consuming audit tasks, reduce security risk and achieve compliance with the NERC CIP standards.
nCircle’s solutions deliver automated, agentless configuration and policy auditing, vulnerability assessment, and actionable reporting for NERC CIP compliance. The new policies enable utilities to continuously audit the configurations of their critical infrastructure and easily identify deviations from the NERC CIP standards. In addition to the new NERC CIP policies, nCircle also supports a port scanning mode specifically for highly sensitive devices such as Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. This unique, non-intrusive and lightweight approach is ideal for these sensitive critical utility systems.
To view the video: http://vimeo.com/3096912
For information on nCircle NERC solutions: http://www.ncircle.com/index.php?s=solution_regcomp_NERC
About nCircle Suite360
nCircle provides the world’s most comprehensive suite of solutions for agentless security risk and compliance management. nCircle’s solutions combine the broadest discovery 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 includes 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, and Security 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 http://www.ncircle.com.
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