Wolf & Company, P.C. Partners with Rapid7 to Include Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanning in its Risk Management Services Offerings
Using Rapid7's NeXpose to Perform IT Security Audits, Wolf & Company Will Help Its Customers Maintain Regulatory Compliance
BOSTON – July 10, 2007 – Rapid7 LLC, provider of enterprise vulnerability management, today announced that Wolf & Company, P.C., a certified public accounting and business consulting firm, has licensed Rapid7's NeXpose to include robust network scanning and penetration testing capabilities when performing IT security auditing services for its customers. IT auditing is among Wolf & Company’s risk management services offerings. The firm's customers include banks, financials services firms, healthcare institutions and public companies, all organizations concerned with maintaining compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and other governmental and industry regulations.
"The commercial systems we use are a big part of our services, so finding a quality vulnerability management system was critical," stated Jerry Gagne, a Member of the Firm and Director of Risk Management Services at Wolf & Company, P.C. "We conducted a rigorous search and looked at several vulnerability scanning products before making our selection. Rapid7's NeXpose proved to be more comprehensive, finding vulnerabilities that other products did not. NeXpose also has an easier to use interface and better reporting capabilities."
A firm well-established in the northeast United States, Wolf & Company plans to franchise its IT auditing practice in a nationwide business expansion.
"Partnering with Wolf & Company is a tremendously well-timed opportunity as both companies endeavor to expand into new markets and reach customers who are required by mandates to conduct periodic security reviews and maintain protected networks," stated Alan Matthews, president of Rapid7 LLC. "Our partnership combines high-quality expertise and strengths that provide Wolf & Company's customers with premier security auditing services that ensure their IT systems are compliant and free of exposures."
"Customers will also benefit from the two companies' unique synergy," added Gagne. "We have a good cultural fit, especially in terms of our shared focus on providing superior customer service and quality products. Our use of NeXpose positions Rapid7 in front of our customer base, while it allows us to take advantage of Rapid7's leading training capabilities and professional services staff."
About Wolf & Company, P.C.
Wolf & Company, P.C. is a regional certified public accounting and business consulting firm, with offices in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts and Albany, New York. The Firm employs over 150 professionals providing audit, tax, IT assurance, regulatory compliance, internal audit, and business consulting services. Wolf's clients include privately-held and publicly-traded businesses and financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals. Wolf & Company, P.C. is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and is a member of both a national and international affiliation of CPA firms.
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 (UVM) Solutions. Rapid7 NeXpose UVM 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. For more information on the company and its product, NeXpose, visit www.rapid7.com.