2006 Press Releases

Alaska's Southcentral Foundation Reduces Vulnerability Scanning Time and Costs Using Rapid7's NeXpose

Non-Profit Healthcare Organization Selects Rapid7's NeXpose To Perform Own Vulnerability Assessments, Enjoys Ease and Convenience of Solution's Automatic and Customizable Capabilities

Boston, MA - June 13, 2006 - Rapid7 today announced that Southcentral Foundation (SCF), an Alaska Native healthcare corporation, has installed NeXpose, its enterprise vulnerability management solution. SCF selected NeXpose to conduct vulnerability assessment scans of the networks at its Anchorage headquarters. The organization was previously using an outside scanning service and decided it wanted the flexibility of performing its own scans. NeXpose made this transition simple.

"We've realized time and cost savings by doing the scanning ourselves with NeXpose," stated Takia Johnson, server engineer at Southcentral Foundation. "We can now perform network checks every month or as often as needed. Before, we would wait until the annual service came in and have to do a large amount of scanning to get caught up."

With the automatic and customizable capabilities it provides, NeXpose enhanced the self-scanning benefits realized by SCF.

"With NeXpose, it is easy to set up the vulnerability scans and the targeted network sites," stated Johnson. "Also, the reports on the scanning results are detailed and can be easily customized, although we found that the NeXpose report templates already covered all the information we need. In addition, NeXpose conducts automatic updates, checking for information on new vulnerabilities."

NeXpose performs these updates transparently on a scheduled basis, accessing the Rapid7 servers for the latest vulnerability information. Rapid7 issues important new vulnerabilities within 18 hours to provide near real-time automated alerting. Since new vulnerabilities are discovered at a rapid rate, NeXpose allows SCF to scan target systems incrementally, which reduces the scanning time as well as network bandwidth.

"Rapid7's NeXpose has enabled us to do our vulnerability assessment effortlessly," stated Johnson. "We can just set it up and it pretty much takes care of itself."

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 Southcentral Foundation

Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned healthcare organization serving Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit.

Incorporated in 1982 under the tribal authority of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Southcentral Foundation is the largest of the CIRI nonprofits, employing more than 1,200 people in some 65 programs. CIRI is one of the 12 Alaska-based regional corporations established by Congress under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. A 13th corporation manages the assets of non-resident Alaska Natives. For more information, visit www.southcentralfoundation.com.

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.