nCircle Releases Automated Coverage to Identify Systems Compromised by Conficker...

nCircle Releases Automated Coverage to Identify Systems Compromised by
Conficker Worm

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- nCircle, the leader in automated
security and configuration auditing solutions, today made available checks
that will immediately and definitively identify systems that have been
infected by the Conficker worm. These new checks follow those released by
nCircle last October that identified the existence of the vulnerability
itself. Together, the checks ensure that nCircle customers can easily and
automatically identify any vulnerable systems as well as any system that is
already compromised by the Conficker worm.

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The Conficker worm was first released in late 2008 and by late January 2009,
infections had topped 15 million systems. Security researchers have discovered
that on April 1, Conficker will change how it updates itself, making it
extremely difficult to mitigate and protect unpatched systems. Conficker may
also take advantage of April 1 to wreak more havoc on compromised systems, as
have many worms in the past. Enterprises should take immediate action to
ensure that all systems are patched and that any compromised systems are
remediated.

The Conficker worm takes specific action to disable anti-virus programs and
other host countermeasures. It cannot, however, disable or interfere with
nCircle's agentless scanning solutions since there is no agent to tamper with
or disable. nCircle solutions ensure each system is audited and administrators
are alerted to any changes or problems, including disabled anti-virus.

How nCircle can help:

-- nCircle solutions can scan systems to ensure that the vulnerability
required for the Conficker worm to compromise a system (MS08-067) has
been patched.
-- nCircle solutions can scan systems to identify any that have been
compromised by the Conficker worm.
-- nCircle solutions can scan systems automatically and regularly to
ensure
operating systems and applications are generally up to date, including
service packs and software and security updates.
-- nCircle solutions can scan the network and produce a list of systems
that remain vulnerable to the Conficker worm.
-- nCircle solutions can scan the network to ensure that anti-virus is
installed, running, and up to date on all specified systems.

"Sincere thanks to Dan Kaminsky, Felix Leder, Tillman Werner, Rich Mogull,
Adrian Lane, and the members of the Conficker Working Group," said Sheldon
Malm, Director, Security Research and Development, nCircle. "This is the kind
of collaboration from the Security Community that gives customers an edge over
the bad guys."

For more information, please visit http://www.ncircle.com/conficker.

About nCircle Suite360
nCircle provides the world's most comprehensive suite of solutions for
agentless security and configuration auditing. 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 www.ncircle.com.

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Shelley Boose of Shev Rush PR, +1-408-398-6987, for nCircle