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Rapid7's NeXpose named Best Vulnerability Assessment Solution by SC Magazine
NeXpose Edges Out Leading Solutions, Wins Reader Trust Technology Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment
BOSTON - February 21, 2006 - Rapid7 LLC today announces that its vulnerability and risk management solution, NeXpose, was named the Best Vulnerability Assessment solution by SC Magazine. Rapid7 won the Reader Trust Technology Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment at SC Magazine's annual awards celebration held on February 14th at the RSA Conference in San Jose, CA.
"This is indeed valuable recognition to be named the security industry's best vulnerability assessment solution. We are extremely proud to be among the winners of the prestigious SC Awards," said Alan Matthews, president of Rapid7 LLC. "NeXpose uses an expert system to deliver superior results, possesses an elegant interface, and offers multiple options for tailoring it to customers' needs - all of which were drivers for winning this award. We thank SC Magazine's readers and the judges for validating NeXpose as a competitive and leading solution for monitoring and protecting enterprise networks."
NeXpose enterprise vulnerability management scans devices, systems, software and Web server applications to locate threats, assess their risk to the environment, devise a remediation plan and implement the ticketing process. With its expert system, NeXpose builds a knowledge base of facts on the environment it's exploring and models potential targeted attacks to expose all existing threats. NeXpose provides reporting capabilities that ensure compliance with governmental regulations and corporate security configuration policies.
NeXpose is available in multiple deployment options: Software, plug-and-play Appliance and Hosted Services.
SC Magazine Awards 2006 - US
With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world's leading awards program for the information security industry.
New this year, the SC Magazine Awards have three separate award programs for the US, UK, and Asia Pacific regions. The awards are composed of the Reader Trust Awards - voted on by SC readers in each region, and the excellence and professional awards that are judged by a panel of the industry's top talents. Winners were announced at the 2006 SC Awards Gala on February 14th, 2006 which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.
To view the full list of winners or to learn more about the SC Magazine Awards 2006-US please visit: www.scawards.com
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.