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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 NeXpose
Rapid7's award-winning NeXpose Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) product is an all-in-one security solution that scans Web servers, Web applications, databases and networks to locate threats, assess their risk to the environment and devise a remediation plan. 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 an 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 (UVM) solutions. NeXpose provides network, database and web application vulnerability management for enterprise deployments and small to medium businesses. Rapid7 was founded in 2000 by a team of software industry veterans who were major contributors to product development and subsequent growth and success at Percussion Software, Bond Technologies and Stride & Associates. Since introduced, NeXpose has been sold to corporate enterprises, Global 2000 companies, and government entities, and serves the full range of vertical markets across the U.S. and abroad. In addition, Rapid7 provides compliance products and services for PCI, HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley. Rapid7 is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in California and the United Kingdom.