Info Security Products Guide Eighth Annual 2012 Global Excellence Awards Names nCircle As Finalist in Four Product Categories: nCircle Benchmark, IP360™, Configuration Compliance Manager™ and PureCloud™ Recognized as Best-in-Class.

San Francisco, CA – January, 2011 – nCircle, the leader in security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information research and advisory guide, named nCircle’s Benchmark, IP360™, Configuration Compliance Manager™ and PureCloud™ as product finalists for the 8th annual 2012 Info Security Global Excellence awards. Winners will be announced during the awards dinner and presentation on February 29, 2012 in San Francisco.

nCircle IP360 and Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM) are part of nCircle Suite360, a fully integrated, best-in-class, agentless product line that audits the entire information technology stack across global enterprise networks. With an ever-growing library of over 50,000 checks, Suite360 offers the greatest breadth and depth of coverage for automatically discovering vulnerabilities, applications and services—auditing configuration compliance and monitoring file integrity across the largest, most sensitive networks in the world.

nCircle PureCloud™ is the only security service that scans every device on small businesses' networks, including those behind the firewall, without requiring hardware or software deployment or firewall changes. Using only a web browser, PureCloud discovers and scans every device, prioritizes all security risks and provides detailed guidance on the steps necessary to reduce or eliminate those risks. PureCloud scans are always free and include a report with a scan summary including full color charts, summary statistics, the number and severity of all discovered vulnerabilities and an instant comparison of overall risk scores with the nCircle PureCloud community based on nCircle Benchmark.

nCircle Benchmark is the world’s first cloud-based security and compliance benchmarking service that enables organizations to compare the performance of their entire IT security ecosystem to their own goals and industry peers. nCircle Benchmark’s pre-packaged, field-tested metrics and scorecards provide complete visibility across multiple-vendor security and compliance environments. nCircle Benchmark offers a broad range of Scorecard Packs including Vulnerability Management, Configuration Auditing, Antivirus & Endpoint Protection, Identity & Access Management and Patch Management. Additional Scorecard Packs for Endpoint Encryption, Event Management, Incident Response and Network Protection will be available soon.

“Having nCircle solutions selected as finalists in four categories is a significant honor,” said Elizabeth Ireland, vice president of marketing for nCircle. “nCircle is known for innovation and having our two newest products recognized by Info Security Products Guide provides further validation that our products solve some of the most difficult security challenges in the world.”