Rapid's NeXpose Edges Out Leading Solutions, Wins Reader Trust Technology
Award for Best Vulnerability Assessment
BOSTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- 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: http://www.scawards.com
About Rapid7
Rapid7 was founded in 1999 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 in 2001, NeXpose has been sold to over 130 organizations in
the U.S. and abroad. Rapid7 sells NeXpose to corporate enterprises, Global
2000 companies, and government entities, and serves the full range of vertical
markets. 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 http://www.rapid7.com.
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