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Perry Ellis International Selects Rapid7's Nexpose for Optimizing Vulnerability Management and IT Security Compliance

Nexpose Outperforms Other Products by Delivering Exceptional Vulnerability Scanning Results and Remediation Reporting

BOSTON – September 18, 2007 – Rapid7, provider of the award-winning Nexpose enterprise vulnerability management solution, today announced that Perry Ellis International (NASDAQ: PERY) has selected Nexpose for optimizing vulnerability management and ensuring IT security complies with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations.

A leading designer, distributor and licensor of high quality men's and women's apparel, Perry Ellis International chose Nexpose for its in-depth reporting on vulnerability scanning results, including a step-by-step remediation plan for the exposures it finds.

"To protect important corporate data and ensure regulatory compliance, it is critical we not only uncover all vulnerabilities that emerge in our networks and databases, but have a plan for resolving them before they can be exploited," states Prakash Bhavsar, MIS security administrator at Perry Ellis International's corporate office in Miami, Florida. "We have been impressed with Nexpose and its scanning results, as it provides greater detail on the vulnerabilities we find as well as how to fix them. Its reporting capabilities are superior."

Perry Ellis International purchased the Nexpose enterprise software license, which provides security scanning for unlimited IP addresses, enabling comprehensive coverage of the company's networks, databases and devices.

"We like to take a holistic approach instead of focusing on only limited sections of the network, which is why we insisted on purchasing the unlimited IP license,” states Ronen Lapidot, Perry Ellis International's VP of information technology.

About Perry Ellis International

Perry Ellis International, Inc. is a leading designer, distributor and licensor of a broad line of high quality men's and women's apparel, accessories, and fragrances. The Company's collection of dress and casual shirts, golf sportswear, sweaters, dress and casual pants and shorts, jeans wear, active wear and men's and women's swimwear is available through all major levels of retail distribution. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, owns a portfolio of nationally and internationally recognized brands including Perry Ellis®, Jantzen®, Cubavera®, Savane®, Munsingwear®, Original Penguin® by Munsingwear®, AXIST®, Grand Slam®, John Henry®, Natural Issue®, Farah®, Pro Player®, Manhattan®, the Havanera Co. ®, Axis®, Tricots St. Raphael®, Mondo di Marco®, Redsand®, Gotcha®, Girl Star® and MCD®. The Company enhances its roster of brands by licensing trademarks from third parties including Dockers® for outerwear, Nike® and JAG® for swimwear, and PING® and PGA TOUR® for golf apparel. Additional information on the Company is available at www.pery.com.

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 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 1,700 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.