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Rapid7, 2006 SC Magazine Award Winner for Best Vulnerability Assessment Solution, Named Finalist in 2007 SC Magazine Award Program

Boston - November 21, 2006 - Rapid7 today announces that it has been named a finalist in the SC Magazine Award program for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security. Its enterprise vulnerability management solution, NeXpose, is competing for the Reader Trust Award in the category of Best Audit/Vulnerability Assessment Solution.

NeXpose was among nearly 400 entries submitted in nine technology categories. Placement in the SC Magazine Awards program is based on voting by more than 9,000 of the publication’s readers. Rapid7 won the Reader Trust Technology Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment in the 2006 SC Magazine Awards.

"Innovations like what we’ve seen from Rapid7 demonstrate the vibrancy and vitality of the IT security industry,” says SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong. "They represent breakthroughs that will benefit our readers and, in turn, corporate users of technology.”

"Our customers and the readers of SC Magazine have spoken — their votes for NeXpose further validate it as a powerful product and propel it to SC Awards finalist status for the second year in a row," said Alan Matthews, president of Rapid7 LLC. "We are gratified to be considered one of the security industry’s best. Our continuous development of advanced features and Web assessment capabilities has facilitated NeXpose’s emergence as a competitive and recognized vulnerability assessment solution.”

The award winners will be announced at the SC Magazine Awards ceremony, to be held at a formal dinner and presentation during the RSA Conference on February 6, 2007 at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco, California.

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. The brand’s portfolio includes the SC Magazine Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and SC Magazine IT Security Executives Forums.

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 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.

For more information, visit www.rapid7.com.