Re: Qualys

[Byron Sonne <blsonne () rogers com>]

Greetings,

> nCircle has been around for quite some time.  They may
>  not be classified as vulnerability scanner as Qualys
> is defined as, but they are in the same market segment.  

We're definately in the same space as Qualys; they're one of our major 
competitors if not the main one. There is, however, increasing crossover 
between asset and vulnerability management, so how long the 'space' 
stays as it is an interesting question. I don't think VM will stay 
'pure' VM for long.

We're not huge exploit discoverers like eEye and whatnot, so without 
that rock-star factor there isn't as much press. We also tend to deal 
with larger companies (some have 16 million nodes), nor do we offer a 
bunch of one-off point-and-click single-PC or small network scanning tools.

I was a little distressed at first when I started working for the 
company and found little about us on the web ;) But then I realized that 
sometimes a lack of press has it's advantages. You can move faster when 
tons of people don't have their eyes on you, and it's easier to sneak up 
from behind.

Things are going *fantastic* and we're working our butts off, so I'm 
sure you'll hear more about us in the future.

Cheers,
Byron

p.s. shameless plug, check out my department's blog at blog.ncircle.com, 
we're *always* interested in a good conversation.

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