Rapid7 Delivers Greater Security Posture Visibility, Breakthrough Performance and Operational Efficiency to Enterprise Customers with the Release of NeXpose 4.10

Dynamic Asset Groups, Enhanced Detection Method and Asset Search Features Greatly Improve the Identification, Reporting, and Remediation of Vulnerabilities Across Distributed Environments

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rapid7®, the leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced NeXpose® 4.10, the latest version of its vulnerability management solution, providing enterprise customers with greater visibility and actionable intelligence for managing their security risk posture. NeXpose 4.10 provides superior operational efficiency and reporting with powerful new features such as dynamic asset groups, advanced asset reporting filters, expansion of supported authentication methods and industry-leading detection with more than 61,000 vulnerability checks. With these new features, organizations can better qualify vulnerabilities, quantify risk and correct exposures to manage risk, achieve compliance and prevent security incidents from occurring.

In enterprise organizations, security personnel are often dispersed between multiple locations and are responsible for numerous applications and platforms thereby increasing the need for flexibility in managing and reporting vulnerabilities. Adding to this challenge, new assets are often added to, or removed from, the production environment without the security team’s knowledge, making it difficult to effectively manage risk across the enterprise. With NeXpose 4.10, organizations can now streamline their scanning operations, automatically identify and classify new assets as they are added to a network, and easily enable optimized remediation efforts with reporting that is tailored to their organization.

“Enterprises have a unique challenge in identifying, remediating and reporting on vulnerabilities across their business-critical information assets. With threats to increasingly complex IT environments growing, safeguarding against attacks is more difficult than ever before,” said Mike Tuchen, president and CEO of Rapid7. “The features delivered by NeXpose 4.10 improve our customers’ visibility into their IT environments, enabling proactive vulnerability management and real risk reduction for operating systems, network infrastructure, applications, databases and related hosting services.”

The highlights of NeXpose 4.10 are:

• Greater operational efficiency with dynamic asset groups. NeXpose provides users with the ability to create dynamic asset groups by specifying an unlimited set of criteria based on asset metadata. These dynamic asset groups are updated automatically based on added or deleted assets without the need for manual maintenance, greatly enhancing user efficiency and productivity. The dynamic groups can then be leveraged in reporting and remediation efforts, governed by granular, role-based access controls, enabling optimized risk management operations.
• Refined asset search and selection for reports and asset groups. Users can customize asset selection pages to display specific asset search filters, providing an easy and convenient way to find and select assets to streamline vulnerability identification and remediation.
• SSH public key authentication. NeXpose now enables organizations to perform credentialed scans on assets that require SSH public key authentication. This is particularly valuable for organizations that require the highest level of security for their critical assets, including those provisioned in cloud environments.
• Increased vulnerability coverage. NeXpose 4.10 now provides more than 61,000 checks across more than 15,600 vulnerabilities, spanning operating systems, network infrastructure, applications, services, protocols and databases.
• Superior server runtime performance. Based on exhaustive testing and analysis within the Rapid7 Enterprise Performance and Scalability Lab, new Java runtime performance optimization provides superior execution under load from the most demanding environments.

<p> NeXpose 4.10 will ship later this week. To find out more information about NeXpose 4.10 and the various NeXpose editions, please visit http://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/compare-and-buy.jsp

About Rapid7

Rapid7 is the leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, delivering actionable intelligence about an organization’s entire IT environment. Rapid7 offers the only integrated threat management solution that enables organizations to implement and maintain best practices and optimize their network security, Web application security and database security strategies.

Recognized as the fastest growing vulnerability management company in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, Rapid7 helps leading organizations such as Liz Claiborne, the United States Postal Service, Carnegie Mellon University and Red Bull to mitigate risk and maintain compliance for regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX and NERC. Rapid7 also manages the Metasploit Project, the leading open-source penetration testing platform with the world’s largest database of public, tested exploits. To obtain a free download of NeXpose or Metasploit, please visit http://www.rapid7.com/resources/free-downloads.jsp.

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Source: Rapid7