Re: Hello from Rapid7!

[kuza55 <kuza55 () gmail com>]

I know you said that Metasploit will remain open source, but will the
Metasploit project remain BSD-licensed, or is there a license change
planned?

 - kuza55

2009/10/22 Mike Tuchen <Mike.Tuchen () rapid7 com>
> Metasploit community,
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> Since joining Rapid7, I’ve learned about some of the key principles of network security: defense in depth, 
> continuously identifying and fixing your vulnerabilities, and continuously improving security through investments in 
> people, process, and technology. Rapid7 has always believed that vulnerability management software should be 
> augmented with penetration testing by experts.  Guys like ‘jabra’ and ‘jcran’ on our pen test team or ‘bevand’ on our 
> vuln team have used Metasploit for a long time to enable our customers find holes in their infrastructure. When the 
> opportunity to meet HD came up some months ago, I jumped at the chance and it became obvious that there was a lot 
> more we could do together by combining our resources.
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> Nine years at Microsoft made me a big fan of open source. I'm kidding but only a little. Sitting on the other side of 
> the room and watching the community at work left me with a huge respect for the power of an active and vibrant 
> community like Metasploit.  I’m looking forward to working with you to continue to develop Metasploit.
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> We’re thrilled that Egypt and HD will be joining Rapid7 to work full-time on the open-source Metasploit Framework 
> code. We see a couple of low hanging fruit opportunities to improve both products: we’ll leverage exploit data from 
> Metasploit to expand the risk analysis capabilities of Rapid7's NeXposeTM product and will contribute vulnerability 
> data from the NeXpose product to expand the accuracy and reliability of the Metasploit Framework. We’re also looking 
> at ways to integrate NeXpose and Metasploit more tightly to provide new features to NeXpose users and exploit 
> automation to Metasploit users, and we’d love to get your ideas there.
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> If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them on the Metasploit list, or email HD or me directly. 
> I can't promise that I will respond to every email directly, but I do want to hear what you have to say, and I will 
> commit to doing everything we can to grow the Metasploit community.
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