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, Mass. - December 21, 2010 - 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." To find out more information about NeXpose 4.10 and the various NeXpose editions, please visit http://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/compare-editions.jsp
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