Why is Rapid7 partnering with w3af?
Rapid7 believes that partnering with the open source community can harness the power of the broader security community to create stronger commercial offerings while at the same time contributing back to the open source community. Rapid7’s collaboration with the Metasploit penetration testing framework has demonstrated how well such a partnership can work, with acceleration of the open source Metasploit framework, the creation of a strong and affordable commercial Metasploit offering, and arguably, revitalization of competitors’ commercial efforts in response to these changes. w3af has a compelling value proposition and similar reputation in the community, in this case for its open source Web application security technology. I will join Rapid7 as an employee and will play a significant role in the cross pollination between the open source Web application security community and Rapid7’s commercial Web security offerings.
