Miami-Dade County installs Rapid7's NeXpose for risk assessment and management of its county-wide networks
Florida's Largest County Achieves Superior Reporting Capabilities and a Flexible, Cost-Effective Means to Locating Network Security Risks
Boston, January 31, 2006 - Rapid7 today announces that Miami-Dade County in Florida has purchased NeXpose, its enterprise vulnerability management solution, for conducting risk assessment and management of the organization's networks. NeXpose is installed at Miami-Dade's main administrative offices in Miami, but the browser-based software is used by departments across the county. Miami-Dade County is the largest metropolitan area in the state of Florida.
"NeXpose performed superbly during our trial of the product and convinced us it was the risk management solution that would meet our needs at this time," stated Pamela Sutton, senior operating systems programmer, IT Security, Miami-Dade County. "We were impressed with NeXpose's vulnerability and risk reporting capabilities and its intuitive interface. NeXpose has reports available in a multitude of formats and delivers email notifications depending on the severity of findings during network scans. It also integrates well with our Help Desk software, Remedy, to create a remediation ticket after conducting a scan."
NeXpose provides Miami-Dade County with critical capabilities that they did not have with their previous risk management product. "We like that NeXpose makes it possible for any department in the county to use it since some departments manage their own networks," stated Sutton. "Departments across the county can access NeXpose via Internet Explorer to perform the scans they need at any time."
With NeXpose, Miami-Dade County also has the ability to use Rapid7's external server for penetration testing so they don't need an additional NeXpose installation outside their infrastructure.
Summing up their experience with NeXpose so far, Sutton commented, "We've found NeXpose to be very intuitive and easy to use. Most of our staff has picked it up with minimal training. The risk scanning process has become very flexible now because NeXpose affords usability throughout our organization that we did not have before."
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 Miami-Dade County
Often referred to as the "Gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean" Miami-Dade County is located along the southeast tip of the Florida peninsula. It is bounded by Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Everglades National Park to the west, the Florida Keys to the south, and Broward County to the North.
Governed by an Executive Mayor and 13 commissioners elected from single-member districts, Miami-Dade County encompasses more than 2,000 square miles (larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware). More than two million people live in the county, which is comprised of 35 municipalities as well as unincorporated areas.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 is a leader in vulnerability management and compliance, delivering a single unified solution across an organization's entire infrastructure. Rapid7's NeXpose is the only solution that includes support for web applications, databases, operating systems, and network devices in a single system. NeXpose uncovers "hidden" threats that other systems cannot find, while at the same time separating these real threats from excessive “false positive” noise common to most vulnerability management systems. Organizations, including Black & Decker, Trader Joe's, Florida State University, the New York Times, and the City of Philadelphia, continually rely on Rapid7 to mitigate risk and remain compliant. Rapid7 is headquartered in Boston, MA, with an office in Los Angeles, California.