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Rapid7's Nexpose named Best Vulnerability Assessment Solution by SC Magazine

Nexpose Edges Out Leading Solutions, Wins Reader Trust Technology Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment

BOSTON - February 21, 2006 - Rapid7 LLC today announces that its vulnerability and risk management solution, Nexpose, was named the Best Vulnerability Assessment solution by SC Magazine. Rapid7 won the Reader Trust Technology Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment at SC Magazine's annual awards celebration held on February 14^th at the RSA Conference in San Jose, CA.

"This is indeed valuable recognition to be named the security industry's best vulnerability assessment solution. We are extremely proud to be among the winners of the prestigious SC Awards," said Alan Matthews, president of Rapid7 LLC. "Nexpose uses an expert system to deliver superior results, possesses an elegant interface, and offers multiple options for tailoring it to customers' needs - all of which were drivers for winning this award. We thank SC Magazine's readers and the judges for validating Nexpose as a competitive and leading solution for monitoring and protecting enterprise networks."

Nexpose enterprise vulnerability management scans devices, systems, software and Web server applications to locate threats, assess their risk to the environment, devise a remediation plan and implement the ticketing process. With its expert system, Nexpose builds a knowledge base of facts on the environment it's exploring and models potential targeted attacks to expose all existing threats. Nexpose provides reporting capabilities that ensure compliance with governmental regulations and corporate security configuration policies.

Nexpose is available in multiple deployment options: Software, plug-and-play Appliance and Hosted Services.

SC Magazine Awards 2006 - US

With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world's leading awards program for the information security industry.

New this year, the SC Magazine Awards have three separate award programs for the US, UK, and Asia Pacific regions. The awards are composed of the Reader Trust Awards - voted on by SC readers in each region, and the excellence and professional awards that are judged by a panel of the industry's top talents. Winners were announced at the 2006 SC Awards Gala on February 14^th, 2006 which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

To view the full list of winners or to learn more about the SC Magazine Awards 2006-US please visit: www.scawards.com

About Rapid7

Rapid7 is the leading provider of security risk intelligence solutions. Rapid7's integrated vulnerability management and penetration testing products, Nexpose and Metasploit, empower organizations to obtain accurate, actionable and contextual intelligence into their threat and risk posture. Rapid7's solutions are being used by more than 2,000 enterprises and government agencies in more than 65 countries worldwide, while the Company's free products are downloaded more than one million times per year and enhanced further by over 125,000 security community users and contributors. Rapid7 has been recognized as one of the fastest growing security companies by Inc. Magazine and as a “Top Place to Work” by the Boston Globe. The Company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures. For more information about Rapid7, please visit http://www.rapid7.com.