Re: Qualys

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

There are some products that advertise they have the ability to scan Class "A" networks but why not break up the Class 
"A" network into various parts, in order for the scan to run efficiently and not cause "door rattling" within an 
organization's security department.

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> From: "David M. Zendzian" <dmz () dmzs com>
> Sent: Feb 8, 2006 1:05 AM
> To: US Infosec <usinfosec () gmail com>
> Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Qualys
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> And just for the lists knowledge, what products did you find that could 
> deliver on a class A assessment?
>
> BTW, I know of several national and multi-national financial 
> institutions that depend on n-circle, doing both regular sweeps around 
> their network as well as tying into their dhcp servers to scan hosts as 
> they "go-live".
>
> dmz
>
> US Infosec wrote:
>
> > nCircle came to do a demonstration for my team once.  I work in an
> > enviornment that has a full routable class A.   I asked the technical
> > guy there if they had ever deployed their appliances in a Class A
> > enviornment and he said sure we have supported clients with 60K hosts.
> >   That was the end of our consideration.
> >
> > gl
> >
> > On 2/6/06, Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > 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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