nCircle Joins Cloud Security Alliance
January 12, 2012
nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of best practices for security assurance within cloud computing as well as education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. Tim ‘TK’ Keanini, CTO for nCircle, will join CSA’s Corporate Member Advisory Council.
"nCircle has invested its top talent to the development of security standards and metrics over the last 12 years," noted nCircle CTO, Tim Keanini. "Meaningful security standards and metrics are crucial to multi-vendor interoperability, socializing the data across multiple disciplines and reducing security risk in public and private networks across the globe. We look forward to working with the CSA to define and educate the public about cloud security."…
nCircle provides the world’s most comprehensive suite of solutions for agentless security and configuration auditing for physical and virtual IT environments. 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 brings a long-standing commitment to the development of security standards to CSA," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director, Cloud Security Alliance. "We are looking forward to leveraging nCircle’s extensive assets and experience in standards and metric development as part of our effort to develop effective approaches to the challenges and risks inherent in cloud computing."