Hello from Rapid7!

[Mike Tuchen <Mike.Tuchen () rapid7 com>]

Metasploit community,



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.



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.



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.



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.

Mike Tuchen
President & CEO
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