NCircle

History

History: nCircle Network Security is an IT security company that was founded and incorporated in 1999, by John Flowers, Will Daly and Tom Stracener. nCircle’s predecessor was Hiverworld, a for-hire penetration testing organization. Hiverworld was originally based in an office on University Avenue in Berkeley California. In Spring of 2001, after a move to Emeryville, California the company name was changed to nCircle Network Security. nCircle’s headquarters are now based in San Francisco, California.

In 2002 Abe Kleinfeld took over as CEO of nCircle, and in 2003 Tim Keanini came on board as Chief Technology Officer. nCircle now has offices in multiple cities across the United States and internationally.

nCircle acquired Cambia Security in May of 2007 adding a configuration compliance product to its line as well as gaining a team of security professionals lead by David Meltzer, based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Products

nCircle Certified PCI Scan Service:A fully automated, PCI authorized scanning service. Purpose is to assist merchants in achieving compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard.

nCircle IP360:An agentless security risk and compliance management solution whose purpose is to deliver a comprehensive view of network risk.

nCircle IP360 provides customized reporting, vulnerability prioritization, and remediation workflow designed to enable effective risk reduction.

nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager:An agentless configuration auditing solution that provides visibility into the compliance of system configurations by discovering all networked devices, collecting configuration information about each device, comparing the configurations with established benchmarks and baselines, and providing customizable reporting for monitoring and regulatory purposes.

Financial Data

Media references

Practical eCommerce:
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/816-PCI-Report-Card-Merchant-X-A-Photography-Accessory-Retailer-

Gartner:
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/rapid/156038.html

Clean Computer Help:
http://www.cleancomputerhelp.com/ncircle-delivers-pci-partner-program-to-the-uk-market

Information Security Product Guide:
http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/hot2006/nCircleNetworkSecurity.html

Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS194419+08-Apr-2008+PRN20080408

Inc.com:
http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2007/company-profile.html?id=200722490

nCircle employees quoted on security:
ZDnet:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1941

Macworld:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135689/2008/09/apple_patching.html

Computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=17&articleId=9037766&intsrc=hm_topic

InfoWorld:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/17/eBay-says-Skype-was-not-attacked_1.html

CNBC:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=437444393&play=1

Associations

nCircle is a member of the Information Technology Association of America.