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Rapid7 Nexpose Now Includes Exploit Exposure For Deeper Insight Into Vulnerability Risk

Nexpose Becomes the First Vulnerability Management Solution to Leverage Intelligence from Metasploit Data and Exploit Database to Prioritize Real-World Exposure Risk

BOSTON, Mass. – February 23, 2010 – Rapid7^®, the leading provider of unified vulnerability management, compliance and penetration testing solutions, today announced Exploit Exposure™, a new technology available immediately in its flagship vulnerability management product, Rapid7 Nexpose^®.  Exploit Exposure provides users with deeper insight into the breach paths for vulnerabilities identified across multiple threat vectors, including Web applications, operating systems, networks and databases by detailing the risk that discovered vulnerabilities represent to critical business data.  With this new feature, Nexpose is the only vulnerability management solution to use real exploit intelligence to perform risk classification.  As a result, organizations can make more informed decisions and focus remediation resources on the most critical, exploitable security gaps identified in their IT infrastructure.

The Rapid7 Nexpose family of products, from the robust Nexpose Enterprise Edition to the no-cost Nexpose Community Edition, performs more than 40,000 vulnerability checks across the broadest level of assets found in today’s complex IT infrastructure within organizations of all sizes.  As the number of attacks and vulnerabilities continue to rise, security professionals need the ability to prioritize real threats and remediate the greatest risks first.  Exploit Exposure addresses this challenge by identifying whether an exploit exists and combines exploit ranking with other factors to determine the probability of a successful attack.  As a result, security managers have additional knowledge behind identified vulnerabilities, including whether those vulnerabilities have known exploits, and can then determine appropriate remediation next steps.

"When it comes to vulnerability management and reducing the risk of an attack through exploits, detailed information is critical and organizations greatly benefit from data gathered by the security community," said Mike Tuchen, president and CEO of Rapid7.  "Given the number of vulnerabilities organizations face every day, we have always provided our customers with prioritization reports to assist with remediation.  The addition of Exploit Exposure is a further milestone in the evolution of risk quantification and prioritization.  Combined with existing risk metrics in Nexpose, Rapid7 provides the most practical and flexible methods for identifying, measuring and managing risk across enterprise environments."

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.