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60% of IT Security Teams Spend At Least One Quarter of Resources on Compliance

One Third of Teams Spend Half of Resources on Compliance

 SAN FRANCISCO, CA —November  28, 2007 —  In a recent survey of 103 IT security professionals, 60% percent stated that at least 25% of their team’s time is spent on compliance efforts.  nCircle, the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions, conducted the survey from August 16 through October 31, 2007.

The full poll results are:

What percentage of your security team’s time is devoted to supporting compliance efforts?

Less than 25% - 40% 
25 - 50% - 29% 
51 - 75% - 16% 
76 - 100% - 15%

Total Votes: 103 

 According to Elizabeth Ireland, VP of Strategy for nCircle, “Compliance has become a factor in every business process and it’s not a surprise to see so much focus on compliance. It is surprising, though, to see that one third of the respondents are spending more than half of their time on compliance. This is a strong indicator that these teams need to automate their compliance processes.”

About nCircle Solutions
nCircle solutions discover and profile all devices on an organization’s global network enabling configuration auditing, vulnerability management, security risk management and file integrity monitoring. nCircle solutions distill the wealth of discovered information into actionable data, analytics and objective metrics that measure risk and compliance and improve the operational effectiveness of security teams, IT administrators, IT management, and auditors in addressing regulatory challenges such as PCI compliance and SOX compliance.

About nCircle

nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 4,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify, measure, manage and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation and technology leadership and has been ranked among the top 100 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. nCircle is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with regional offices throughout the USA and in London, Toronto and Tokyo. Additional information about nCircle is available at www.ncircle.com.

nCircle is a registered trademark of nCircle Network Security, Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners

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