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Rapid7 Launches New ‘PartnerFirst’ Program

Program Will Help Partners Meet Increased Market Demand for Rapid7 Nexpose Vulnerability Management for Security and Compliance

Boston - December 16, 2008 - Rapid7, the leading provider of Unified Vulnerability Management solutions, today formally announced its PartnerFirst program. PartnerFirst will provide a robust set of benefits and support for partners to match its growing customer demand for Rapid7 Nexpose vulnerability management protection, which has become a core part of the overall security and compliance offerings for many companies. This formal program enhances Rapid7’s already strong partner momentum, the most recent highlight coming with the incorporation of Nexpose inside Trend Micro’s SecureSite, a new hosted, Web-threat vulnerability scanning service for e-commerce Web sites to help protect customers and businesses while meeting PCI DSS compliance mandates.

Organizations are facing a combination of continually escalating security threats and a variety of compliance regulations that demand increased network visibility. Rapid7 and its comprehensive, high performance coverage of network, databases and Web applications has become a cornerstone of many partners’ offerings, and the PartnerFirst program will provide the channel with the strong technical and sales support required to maximize revenue for both Rapid7 and its partners.

“Customers are increasingly looking for a comprehensive way to understand the security exposure of their organization while still addressing complex compliance challenges,” said Aaron Shilts, vice president of professional services for FishNet Security. “Rapid7’s vulnerability management capabilities, with its ability to address both current and emerging vulnerabilities, make Nexpose a key tool for our assessment team to meet and exceed our customers’ security needs.”

PartnerFirst Program

Rapid7’s PartnerFirst reseller program is designed to provide business and technical support to the entire range of current and future partners, including consultants, resellers, VARs, MSSPs, OEMs and alliances. Depending on the individual partner needs, Rapid7 will provide:

• Strategic Go-To-Market Business Plan – Incorporating annual revenue benchmarks, the plan could include sales training, certification, co-marketing and other benefits.
• Partner Portal Access – Real-time access to up-to-date program information, channel training resources, competitive information, sales and marketing collateral, deal registration…all the necessary tools to help close deals and drive revenue.
• Deal Registration – Assists in partner time investment with compensation protection for pipeline initiatives.
• PartnerFirst Technical Certification – Provides a full understanding and best practices of Rapid7 products, and is the threshold for partners to receive more robust and extensive support.

“Our channel partners are seeing great demand for Rapid7’s unique vulnerability management solutions,” said Eric Dougherty, vice president of partners and alliances at Rapid7. “The PartnerFirst program will help current and future partners streamline and accelerate their sales efforts, continually bringing value to the customer as they face increasing compliance and security challenges.”

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 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.