From: Mark Teicher (mht3@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 13:20:49 EST
nCircle has been around for quite some time. They may no tbe classified as vulnerability scanner as Qualys is defined as, but they are in the same market segment.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo@pvtpt.com>
>Sent: Feb 6, 2006 9:43 AM
>To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: RE: Qualys
>
>To be honest, I had never heard of nCircle before your post. Googling
>for "network security scanner", nCircle wasn't found within the first 20
>pages. Granted, that search came up with well over 1.6 million hits.
>When I searched specifically for nCircle within those results, it only
>came up with 14,000 hits. Qualys came up with 71,500 hits. Eeye Retina
>scanner came up with 163,000. Nessus came up with 361,000 hits.
>
>Not that I can speak for them, but that's probably why it didn't show.
>
>Now, go through, and check pricing on those scanners (commercial support
>options). I will say for a corporation, the reporting options for
>nCircle look interesting.
>
>-Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: slebdawg@gmail.com [mailto:slebdawg@gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:26 PM
>To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: RE: Qualys
>
>I've worked in Info Security for one of North America's largest banks
>for over 8 years. Where is nCircle on this list? Based on your list of
>important criteria, we've found nCircle to not only fit the bill --
>they've outperformed Qualys will allowing our organization to maintain
>control of our data. I can't tell you how many initiatives we've
>started because of the valuable information that we get from our IP360
>implementation. In many of these cases, we found opportunities based on
>looking and thinking about the data in a very innovative way. If
>someone else were hosting our solution, we would never have the
>intelligence in-house to find innovative ways to use this data.
>
>Reading your article, it makes me wonder if you work for Qualys. I am
>truly boggled that you didn't include nCircle on your list ... even if
>they didn't turn out to be your vendor of choice, their absence makes me
>suspicious.
>
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