2006 Press Releases

Los Angeles Philharmonic Touts Thoroughness of Rapid7's NeXpose in Managing Network Vulnerabilities and Risk for Three Locations

NeXpose Monitors and Protects Network Infrastructure for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and their Joint Ticketing Center

Boston, March 7, 2006 - Rapid7 today announces that NeXpose is the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's solution of choice for enterprise vulnerability and risk management. Network administrator, Les Wise, and his team use NeXpose as they manage the network infrastructure for the LA Philharmonic's two performance venues, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, as well as the ticketing center that serves both locations.

“NeXpose is first-rate software, it's very thorough" stated Wise. "It's comprehensive in the number and scope of vulnerabilities it defines, and it's constantly updating."

Wise is the L.A. Philharmonic's primary NeXpose user. He commented further, "I like the granularity of NeXpose. It can do scans at the patch level, at the port and infrastructure level, and around firewalls. NeXpose can identify patches that are missing from servers and desktops as well as potential problems with switches and firewalls."

NeXpose provides the L.A. Philharmonic with critical network monitoring capabilities that it did not have previously. As a result, NeXpose’s usability proved to be an important advantage. "The user interface is very friendly," affirmed Wise. "We found NeXpose to be intuitive and easy to learn."

Other aspects of NeXpose have also stood out for the L.A. Philharmonic. Wise cites the ticketing feature, which assists the Help Desk by notifying them of the timeframe for remediation. He also appreciates the ability to use NeXpose for penetration testing outside the network.

Looking at NeXpose overall, what continues to resonate most for Wise is the software’s thoroughness. "It's really good," declared Wise. "It doesn’t miss much of anything."

About Rapid7 NeXpose

The award-winning Rapid7 NeXpose Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) is an all-in-one security solution that scans networks, Web applications, databases, to locate threats, assess their risk to the environment, devise a remediation plan and implement the ticketing process. NeXpose incorporates an expert system to build a knowledge base of facts on the environment it explores and model potential targeted attacks to expose all existing threats. NeXpose provides robust reporting capabilities that ensure compliance with governmental regulations, corporate security configuration policies, and the PCI Data Security Standard. NeXpose is available as a "plug and play" appliance, downloadable software, or an On-Demand hosted solution.

About the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, under Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, presents the finest in orchestral and chamber music, recitals, new music, jazz, world music and holiday concerts at two of the most remarkable places anywhere to experience music - Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to a 30-week winter subscription season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the LA Phil presents a 12-week summer festival at the legendary Hollywood Bowl, summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. In fulfilling its commitment to the community, the Association's involvement with Los Angeles extends to educational programs, community concerts and children's programming, ever seeking to provide inspiration and delight to the broadest possible audience.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 is the leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, delivering actionable intelligence about an organization’s entire IT environment.  Rapid7 offers the only integrated threat management solution that enables organizations to implement and maintain best practices and optimize their network security, Web application security and database security strategies.

Recognized as the fastest growing vulnerability management company in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, Rapid7 helps leading organizations such as Liz Claiborne, the United States Postal Service, Carnegie Mellon University and Red Bull to mitigate risk and maintain compliance for regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX and NERC.  Rapid7 also manages the Metasploit Project, the leading open-source penetration testing platform with the world’s largest database of public, tested exploits.  To obtain a free download of NeXpose or Metasploit, please visit http://www.rapid7.com/resources/free-downloads.jsp.

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