A Look Inside CORE IMPACT

So, what do you get for the price tag of $25,000 each year? Well, first and foremost you get a top notch product that not only does a quick job of finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them, but also does it in a nice GUI environment that almost anyone, from newb to expert, can use efficiently. To keep this product updated and working as expected, CORE Security employs roughly 120 people — 60 of which are the hardcore developers who are incorporating newly released vulnerabilities and exploit code into their software. The remaining 60 people deal with the normal overhead, sales, etc, with a few taking care of the 400 VMWare based systems that are used for testing of exploits to ensure there are no unexpected crashes or bugs. With this many people working on the program, it makes sense that the cost might be a bit higher than most other similar solutions that only have a fraction of that number on their product development team.

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