H. D. Moore | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Information security researcher and programmer |
Known for | Metasploit |
Website | hdm |
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]