Jefferies Purchases Rapid7's NeXpose for Its Multi-Dimensional Vulnerability Scanning Approach and Breadth of Coverage.NeXpose Will Enable Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Bank to Scan Networks, Databases and Web Applications for Achieving Risk Assessment, SOX (1) (Schema for Object-oriented XML) An XML schema developed by Veo Systems and Muzino Communications, which was submitted to the W3C. SOX is based on DTD, but adds data typing and reuse mechanisms. Compliance and Security Best Practices BOSTON -- Rapid7, provider of the award-winning NeXpose enterprise vulnerability management solution, today announced that Jefferies, a multi-billion dollar international investment banking and institutional securities firm (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : JEF JEF Jefferies Group, Inc. (stock symbol) JEF Junge Europäische Föderalisten (German: Young European Federalists) JEF Joint Educational Facilities, Inc. ), has purchased NeXpose after conducting a rigorous review of several vulnerability management systems. Jefferies will use NeXpose to perform multi-dimensional vulnerability scanning and to optimize database management throughout its 25 global locations. NeXpose's regulatory and corporate policy scanning will be instrumental in achieving Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and ensuring security best practices. Jefferies selected NeXpose for its ability to go beyond network vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. and scan for exposures in databases and Web applications as well. The company also appreciated NeXpose's vulnerability scanning depth and its broad system coverage, which includes operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , firewalls, routers, switches and all IT devices. Jefferies was further impressed with NeXpose's thoroughness and its ability to distribute scan engines to where they are needed while maintaining centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management. About Jefferies Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for 45 years. Headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal , institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF; www.jefferies.com) About NeXpose The award-winning NeXpose enterprise vulnerability management solution scans Web server applications, Databases, Operating Systems, and Network Devices to locate threats, assess their risk to the environment, devise a remediation plan and implement the ticketing process. NeXpose incorporates an expert system to build a knowledge base of facts on the environment it's exploring 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 (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Data Security Standard. 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, its award-winning enterprise vulnerability management solution, NeXpose, has been sold to organizations across 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. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion