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Rapid7 Receives "Positive" Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's Recent Vulnerability Assessment Marketscope Report

BOSTON - July 16, 2008 - Rapid7 LLC, provider of NeXpose, the leading unified vulnerability management solution, today announced that leading analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., has rated Rapid7 as "Positive" in its MarketScope for Vulnerability Assessment¹, written by Kelly M. Kavanagh, Mark Nicolett, and John Pescatore and published on May 23, 2008.

"We believe Gartner's "Positive" rating confirms our strengthening position in the market and our unending commitment to deliver innovative technology that provides our customers with broad coverage of complex vulnerabilities," said Alan Matthews, president and CEO of Rapid7 LLC. "More and more organizations are selecting Rapid7's NeXpose for its ability to thoroughly scan and detect vulnerabilities. We value the recognition we are receiving for our strong Web-based application assessment and unique remediation-based reporting that provides ease of use project plans."

The MarketScope report gave the overall vulnerability assessment (VA) market segment a "Positive" rating and states that VA "is an essential component of an organization's security program." The report explains that VA "initially provides discovery and security baseline data, and periodic re-scanning provides updated data for vulnerability management, trending and compliance reporting. VA tools provide a bottom-up security baseline for the IT environment from a database of known vulnerabilities."

The report also states, "The strongest driver of the current VA market is compliance, including the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard specification for VA. Deploying VA to meet the continuing need for effective vulnerability management remains a driver.

In addition to enabling unified vulnerability management that incorporates comprehensive network, database and Web application scanning, Rapid7's NeXpose provides robust reporting capabilities that ensure compliance with governmental regulations, corporate security configuration policies, and the PCI Data Security Standard. Rapid7 is a PCI-certified security scanning vendor. Companies included in the MarketScope were evaluated based on six criteria, including market responsiveness and track record, sales execution/pricing, offering (product) strategy, product/service, overall viability, and customer experience.

About the Gartner MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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.