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nCircle Enables Utilities Critical Infrastructure Compliance With New NERC CIP Configuration Auditing Policies
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Policies Provide Expanded Coverage for Utility Industry Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- nCircle, the leader in automated
security and configuration auditing solutions, today announced new security
and configuration policies designed to help electric utilities comply with the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure
Protection (CIP) standards. Mapped directly to the NERC 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.
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Reliability is the number one concern for the electric utility industry,
and the effect of Internet connectivity on the security of our critical
infrastructure has created additional complexity and challenges. NERC
addressed these challenges by creating the Critical Infrastructure Protection
(CIP) cyber security standards, providing a way to consistently audit electric
utility organizations for cyber security weaknesses. 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.
"nCircle continues to develop new solutions enabling our customers to
audit their IT assets automatically, continuously and consistently," said Tim
Keanini, CTO, nCircle. "Our new NERC CIP policies expand on nCircle's already
industry-leading coverage, simplifying NERC CIP compliance processes and
ensuring the reliability of the critical utility infrastructure."
The new policies are delivered in nCircle Configuration Compliance
Manager(TM), nCircle's agentless configuration auditing solution that
automates configuration auditing, change monitoring and compliance processes.
In addition to the new NERC CIP policies, Configuration Compliance Manager
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 critical utility
systems.
nCircle is hosting a webinar entitled "Addressing NERC CIP Compliance
Challenges" on December 11, 2008. To register, visit
http://www.ncircle.com/index.php?s=resources_webinars_utilities.
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.
nCircle is a registered trademark of nCircle Network Security, Inc. All
other registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their
respective owners.
SOURCE nCircle
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