nCircle Joins Cloud Security Alliance

January 12, 2012

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of best practices for security assurance within cloud computing as well as education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. Tim ‘TK’ Keanini, CTO for nCircle, will join CSA’s Corporate Member Advisory Council.

“nCircle has invested its top talent to the development of security standards and metrics over the last 12 years,” noted nCircle CTO, Tim Keanini. “Meaningful security standards and metrics are crucial to multi-vendor interoperability, socializing the data across multiple disciplines and reducing security risk in public and private networks across the globe. We look forward to working with the CSA to define and educate the public about cloud security.”

nCircle provides the world's most comprehensive suite of solutions for agentless security and configuration auditing for physical and virtual IT environments. 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 brings a long-standing commitment to the development of security standards to CSA,” said Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director, Cloud Security Alliance. “We are looking forward to leveraging nCircle’s extensive assets and experience in standards and metric development as part of our effort to develop effective approaches to the challenges and risks inherent in cloud computing.”

About Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

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, with regional offices throughout the United States and in London and Toronto. Additional information about nCircle is available at www.ncircle.com.

nCircle is a registered trademark of nCircle Network Security, Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.