RE: Qualys

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

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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