H. D. Moore

H. D. Moore
Born1981 (age 42–43)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Information security researcher and programmer
Known forMetasploit
Websitehdm.io

H. D. Moore is an American network security expert, open source programmer, and hacker. He is the founder of the Metasploit Project and was the main developer of the Metasploit Framework, a penetration testing software suite.

Moore is currently the co-founder and chief technical officer of runZero, Inc,[1] a provider of cyber asset attack surface management software and cloud solutions. The company was originally founded in 2018 as Rumble, Inc and renamed to runZero, Inc. in 2022.[2]

Prior to starting runZero, Moore served as the vice president of research and development at Atredis Partners,[3] the chief research officer at Boston, Massachusetts-based security firm Rapid7, and remained the chief architect of the Metasploit Framework until his departure from Rapid7 in 2016.[4]

  1. ^ "Meet our leadership team". runZero. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  2. ^ "Rumble Network Discovery is now runZero!", Aug 8, 2022, www.runzero.com/blog/introducing-runzero/
  3. ^ "Team - Atredis Partners", May 14, 2019, www.atredis.com/team
  4. ^ "HD Moore Chief Security Officer, Rapid7". RSA Conference. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.