nCircle Tech Perspectives Blog

It's Patch Tuesday and nCircle's Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) recorded their first monthly VERT Alert Live interactive discussion about today's security bulletins.

If you missed the discussion, a recording of today's VERT Alert Live is available here.

VERT Alert Live is a great opportunity to have a conversation with nCircle security researchers on the questions that matter most to you. Don't miss our next session on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 12 pm pacific / 3 pm eastern.

Are we in an international cyber security arms race? Would a set of international cyber security regulations help or hinder national cyber security efforts? Listen to Episode 28 of our Security Slice podcast as Tim 'TK' Keanini and Oliver Lavery discuss this multi-faceted problem and possible solution models.

Do you ever wish you could quickly consult a security expert right after new security bulletins are released so you can get your questions answered?

Starting next week, February 14, 2012, nCircle's Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) will be hosting monthly 30 minute interactive sessions about Microsoft security bulletins and other security advisories.

It's a great opportunity to have a conversation with nCircle security researchers on the questions that matter most to you.

You can find more information on VERT Alert Live events here.

Behind on your blog reading? Here's a list of our top blog posts from 2011:

1. Why Small Businesses Need to Think Like Cyber Criminals

2. IPv6: A New Version of Bigness

3. Rethinking BlackHat: Building, not Breaking, Security

4. Set it and Forget it: A Continuous Compliance Infomercial

5. Are you scanning often enough?

6. SCADA security in Community Owned Utilities

Does your industry share security information and advice? Listen to Episode 27 of our Security Slice podcast and hear Oliver Lavery and Tim 'TK' Keanini discuss how security information is, and isn't, shared.

RSA Conference 2012 is right around the corner and nCircle is giving away a full delegate pass.
A full delegate pass allows you to attend everything that RSA has to offer (a $2,295 value) including keynote presentations from Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI as well as execs from Cisco, Microsoft, RSA and Symantec.

RSA Conference is a great opportunity to network, possibly over a free leap year beer or two. Enter to win here and start planning your conference schedule now.

The Fine Print:
Only one entry per person. The full delegate pass is valid from Monday, February 27 through Friday, March 2, 2012 and is non-transferable. nCircle will select a winner by random drawing on February 10 at 5 pm pacific.
The winner will be contacted through the email address supplied during registration. Once notified, the winner has 36 hours to respond before a new winner is selected.
nCircle employees and their families are not eligible to enter or win.

Yesterday Symantec issued a security advisory for users of pcAnywhere asking users of the product to delete or disable it immediately until they release a set of updates that resolve currently known vulnerability risks.

Users of PC Anywhere may be at risk because of the theft of Symantec source code in 2006. Attackers have had plenty of time to study the code looking for vulnerabilities that could allow them to use the remote-access software to remotely access pcAnywhere installations. If attackers successfully exploit vulnerabilities in the code, it could give attackers unprecedented access to corporate networks around the world.

According to Symantec's security advisory, "All pcAnywhere 12.0, 12.1, and 12.5 customers are at increased risk, as well as customers using prior versions of the product."

The remote-access software runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and the PocketPC platform.
Symantec's PC Anywhere has also been bundled with numerous other products from Symantec and other partners.

In addition, Symantec said, "A remote access component of pcAnywhere, called the pcAnywhere Thin Host, is also bundled with a number of Symantec backup and security products."

nCircle customers can easily identify every system running pcAnywhere or pcAnywhere Thin Host on their network with IP360 or our new, cloud-based network security scanner PureCloud.

Forewarned is forearmed. Scan now; make sure your network is protected.

Updated Feb. 6, 2012: Symantec patches for pcAnywhere are now available for manual download here.

Calling all IT solution Providers, resellers and online communities! nCircle recently announced PureCloud our revolutionary new, cloud-based scanning service and it's been pulling in rave reviews from our customers and the industry.

Now it's time for partners to get in on PureCloud ! To make it easy for our partners to promote this new offering we've developed a complete online, click-through referral service that earns cash for every customer that makes a PureCloud purchase from your referral. As a Referral partner you receive 10% of the initial referral purchase of either a PureCloud detailed scan report or annual PureCloud subscription.

This new program makes it simple and easy for anyone with an online presence to make money with PureCloud. It literally takes minutes to sign up and you can track all your referrals and commissions online.

Referral partners have access to a wide range of marketing content designed to make it easy to immediately promote referrals through websites and social media. There are no commitments or minimums, so referral partners can get started monetizing their customer base and web presence instantly.

nCircle provides everything you need to get started. All you need to do is sign up here, get your code and start linking!

A key security initiative for government agencies is the implementation of continuous monitoring. nCircle’s new webinar can provide insight into agency implementations of continuous monitoring and detail the four key practices agencies are using to driving dramatic improvements in their security posture.

Listen to Jim Acquaviva and Keren Cummins discuss the relationship between continous monitoring best practices, metrics and benchmarking and how nCircle Benchmark can provide the foundation for dramatic improvements in your security posture.

You can find the webinar here.

It's stop SOPA day across the Internet. Listen to Episode 26 of our Security Slice podcast and hear Andrew Storms and Tim 'TK' Keanini discuss the flawed thinking behind SOPA.