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Rapid7 Expands Board With Industry Vet Christopher Young, Releases NeXpose 4.10

December 21, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Rapid7, provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, has appointed former RSA executive and VMware Vice President and General Manager Christopher Young to its board of directors.

Young previously served as senior vice president of RSA products, where during his six-year tenure he built RSA’s identity protection and verification business, led the company’s global engineering, product management and product marketing organizations, and was responsible for the strategy and delivery of RSA’s entire product portfolio.

Young joined VMware this past September to lead the company’s newly formed end-user computing business unit.

In related news, Rapid7 today announced NeXpose 4.10, the latest version of its vulnerability management solution.

NeXpose 4.10 provides operational efficiency and reporting with 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.

HyTrust Partners With EMC’s RSA To Help Enable Visibility and Compliance in Virtual Infrastructure

September 1, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

HyTrust today announced it has added interoperability with the RSA enVision platform, a leading 3-in-1 log management solution for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) from RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

The combination of the HyTrust Appliance and RSA enVision platform puts powerful controls into the hands of joint customers, helping to enable them to confidently virtualize more workloads, satisfy compliance requirements and implement a cloud-based service model.

HyTrust Appliance provides a central point of control for compliance, access control and policy management for virtual infrastructure. It enables virtual environments to be as secure and operationally-ready as physical environments. HyTrust Appliance allows a broader adoption of virtualization, along with all the business and technological benefits that it brings.

By enabling separation of duty, restricted delegation and self-service, HyTrust allows organizations to adopt virtualization and cloud computing for their information technology needs.

The RSA enVision platform is designed to give organizations a single, integrated 3-in-1 log management solution for Security Information and Event Management to help simplify compliance; enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations and risk mitigation; and optimize IT and network operations. The RSA enVision platform is engineered to provide automated collection, analysis, alerting, auditing, reporting and storage of IT log data.

Gene Fay Leaves EMC, Joins VKernel As Top Sales Guy

July 8, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

After Diane Greene leaving VMware, in comes the story of Gene Fay joining VKernel (check our earlier coverage) as Vice President of Sales. Fay was vice president of worldwide sales and global alliances for the security information and event management (SIEM) business unit of RSA, the Security Division of EMC. He joined EMC after the company acquired Network Intelligence where he was vice president of business development.

Gene seems to be happy with the decision he made:

“I have watched the virtualization space explode over the last five years,” said Gene Fay, “With our innovative virtual appliances for systems management, a very hot market, and a great team, VKernel offers a fantastic opportunity to work with customers who are rapidly virtualizing their data centers and partners that are helping them through the process.”

[Source: PRNewswire]