More context and customization around detections and investigations, expanded dashboard capabilities, and more.
This post offers a closer look at some of the recent releases in InsightIDR, our extended detection and response (XDR) solution, from Q4 2021. Over the past quarter, we delivered updates to help you make more informed decisions, accelerate your time to respond, and customize your detections and investigations. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.
InsightIDR provides a highly curated detections library, vetted by the security and operations center (SOC) experts on our managed detection and response (MDR) team — but we know some teams may want the ability to fine tune these even further. In our Q3 wrap-up, we highlighted our new detection rules management experience. This quarter, we’ve made even more strides in leveling up our capabilities around detections to help you make more informed decisions and accelerate your time to respond.
Attacker Behavior Analytics Detection Rules viewed and sorted by rule priority
This new view maps detection rules to MITRE tactics and techniques commonly used by attackers. The view lets you see where you have coverage with Rapid7’s out-of-the-box detection rules for common attacker use cases and dig into each rule to understand the nature of that detection.
MITRE ATT&CK Matrix within Detection Rules
At Rapid7, we know how limited a security analyst’s time is, so we reconfigured our Investigation Management experience to help our users improve the speed and quality of their decision-making when it comes to investigations. Here’s what you can expect:
We also introduced MITRE-driven insights in Investigations. Now, you can click into the new MITRE ATT&CK tab of the Evidence panel in Investigation to see descriptions of each tactic, technique, and sub-technique curated by MITRE and link out to attack.mitre.org for more information.
MITRE ATT&CK tab within Investigations Evidence panel
Like the rest of the security community, we have been internally responding to the critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache’s Log4j Java library (a.k.a. Log4Shell).
Through continuous collaboration and ongoing threat landscape monitoring, our Incident Response, Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering, and MDR teams are working together to provide product coverage for the latest techniques being used by malicious actors. You can see updates on our InsightIDR and MDR detection coverage here and in-product.
Stay up to date with the latest on Log4Shell:
InsightIDR’s Dashboard Library has a growing repository of pre-built dashboards to save you time and eliminate the need for you to build them from scratch. In Q4, we released 15 new pre-built dashboards covering:
We recently introduced Rapid7 Resource Names (RRN), which are unique identifiers added to users, assets, and accounts in log search. An RRN serves as a unique identifier for platform resources at Rapid7. This unique identifier will stay consistent with the resource regardless of any number of names/labels associated with the resource.
In log search, an “R7_context" object has been added for log sets that have an attributed user, asset, account, or local accounts. Within the “R7_context" object, you will see any applicable RRNs appended. You can utilize the RRN as a search in log search or in the global search (which will link to users and accounts or assets and endpoints pages) to assist with more reliable searches for investigation processes.
New “r7_context" Rapid7 Resource Name (RRN) data in Log Search
Event source updates
Insight Network Sensor optimized for 10Gbs+ deployments: We have introduced a range of performance upgrades that make high-speed traffic analysis more accessible using off-the-shelf hardware, so you’re able to gain east-west and north-south traffic visibility within physical, virtual and cloud based networks. If you want to take full advantage of these updates check out the updated sensor requirements here.
InsightIDR Asset Page Updates: We have introduced additional data elements and visuals to the Assets page. This delivers greater context for investigations and enables faster troubleshooting, as assets and user information is in one location. All customers have access to:
For customers with Insight Network Sensors and ENTA, these additional elements are available:
As always, we’re continuing to work on exciting product enhancements and releases throughout the year. Keep an eye on our blog and release notes as we continue to highlight the latest in detection and response at Rapid7.