Metasploit Creator HD Moore To Launch Venture Fund

wiredmikey writes: Well known security expert HD Moore announced that he is leaving Boston-based security firm Rapid7 to help launch a new venture capital firm focused on helping early-stage security firms get to market faster. Moore is the creator of the open source penetration testing framework Metasploit, which Rapid7 acquired in 2009. Moore says he will continue to work on Metasploit and will remain active in the community even after he leaves Rapid7 on January 29.

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[Martin Blank]

The same functionality that was there before the purchase by Rapid7 is still there, plus a little more, in the Community edition. I'm struggling to think of many people in the pen testing community that make use of the paid versions, in part because we can script most of the functionality we need using the unpaid versions--when we use it at all. It still has a place in the toolset, but it's not the end-all, be-all that it was once perceived to be. Core Impact had the same lead-up and fall-off within the

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[greenfruitsalad]

he looks just like Michael Moore but with more pixels

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[ls671]

Obviously he does HD Moore is a mooore High Definition version...

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[Martin Blank]

Brian Krebs? Bruce Schneier? Dave Kennedy?

Maybe not tip-of-the-tongue names, but they appear on TV regularly and their works are published by most of the major media companies. Within the security field, virtually everyone knows their names. HD Moore is up there, too, having really shown what a security framework can do. Many other frameworks have followed.

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[Martin Blank]

And people routinely get their roles wrong. Gates hasn't been involved in tech at a hands-on level in more than 20 years, with some quotes by him suggesting the last line of code in a shipped product written by him was around 1989, give or take a year. Jobs may have been involved more recently than that (I'm not sure what he did at NeXT from day to day), but the reality is that both were primarily managers that oversaw successful growth of their companies while others did most of the grunt work.

Within the

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[Anubis350]

Snowden does actually count here. Love him or hate him, he's well known, and known for security (whether he's truly a "security guy" isn't really the point, as another poster pointed out Gates and Jobs are famous for tech, but what they really were were good managers, market analysts, and pitchmen)

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[ls671]

Don't forget Fyodor...

(Gordon Lyon aka Fyodor Vaskovich)

Argh

[wonkey_monkey]

HD Moore

He looks bad enough in SD!