Re: Qualys

From: US Infosec (usinfosec@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 18:43:27 EST


nCircle came to do a demonstration for my team once. I work in an
enviornment that has a full routable class A. I asked the technical
guy there if they had ever deployed their appliances in a Class A
enviornment and he said sure we have supported clients with 60K hosts.
   That was the end of our consideration.

gl

On 2/6/06, Mark Teicher <mht3@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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