A Look Into Remote Onboarding at Rapid7

Picture this; you accept a new role and walk in on your first day with jitters. You swing the double doors open and are welcomed by the fresh scent of kombucha on tap and the buzz of office chatter. The front desk receptionist welcomes you with a warm “hello!” and a freshly brewed tea or coffee. ...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: High-Risk Services Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Tom Sellers. There are certain services that are generally considered to be high-risk when found available on the public internet. As an exampl...

Rapid7 Source Code Breached in Codecov Supply-Chain Attack

Cybersecurity company Rapid7 on Thursday revealed that unidentified actors improperly managed to get hold of a small portion of its source code repositories in the aftermath of the software supply chain compromise targeting Codecov earlier this year. "A small subset of our source code repositorie...

Rapid7’s Response to Codecov Incident

Cybersecurity is Rapid7’s top priority, and when there is an incident that may pose a risk to our customers, we are transparent about it. We also believe that providing this level of transparency ultimately helps the security community better address potential pending threats and safeguard...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 10: Included Security Orchestration and Automation

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Cybersecurity teams continue to be challenged by resource constraints and disconnected toolsets. One method of...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 9: Assigned Analyst Pods and Security Program Advisors

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Every organization is unique, with different goals, missions, security maturities, staffing models, technologies...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): ASX 200

Today, we are excited to release the third report in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in Australia’s ASX 200. This series focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing, and wi...

Grow, Develop, and Impact More Than Just Your Career: Software Engineering at Rapid7 Belfast

Growth and learning – in any career at any level – are imperative for job satisfaction and company commitment. While it is necessary to have inherent curiosity as well as a desire to grow and achieve, it is also important to work for an organization that encourages and enables this curiosity and...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Web Security Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. The vast majority of the interactions an average person has with technology is through some form of a web application, but what constitutes a “web app” can be considered quite nebulous, and the...

What's New in DivvyCloud by Rapid7: April 2021

Keeping you on scheduler The latest release of DivvyCloud 21.3 encompasses many of the standard changes that we included in each major release, from bug fixes to support for new cloud resources to new filters and other enhancements. As always, all the details are available in the release notes...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Email Security Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Kwan Lin. We all know and love—or at least begrudgingly rely upon—email. It is a pillar of modern communications, but is unfortunately also...

Rapid7 and Velociraptor Join Forces

Exciting news! Rapid7 has acquired a digital forensics and incident response DFIR framework. Velociraptor is an open-source project that allows for hunting across thousands of hosts to provide actionable data in minutes and unprecedented visibility into the state of endpoints. A cyberattack can...

Rapid7 Announces Kubernetes Integration General Availability in InsightVM

Rapid7 is excited to announce the general availability of our Kubernetes integration in InsightVM, our vulnerability management tool.This represents a step forward in Rapid7’s ability to provide vulnerability and remediation management capabilities for container environments. Kubernetes is the mo...

Codecov Discloses Supply Chain Compromise

The following blog was co-authored by Curt Barnard and Caitlin Condon. On April 15, 2021, code coverage and testing company Codecov announced a supply chain compromise in which a malicious party gained access to their Bash Uploader script and modified it without authorization, enabling the...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): FTSE 350

Today, we are excited to release the second report in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in the U.K.’s FTSE 350. This series focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing, and...

Rapid7 Announces General Availability for Scoped Executive Summary Report in InsightVM

Security teams often struggle to demonstrate the efficacy and progress of their organization’s vulnerability and remediation management program. This is a result of the complexity around identifying, collecting, and visualizing complicated metrics. InsightVM’s Executive Summary Report has proved ...

CVE-2021-26908 and CVE-2021-26909: Automox Agent Information Disclosure (FIXED)

Rapid7 researcher Danny Jordan discovered two vulnerabilities in the Automox Agent for Windows and macOS, which could result in information disclosure issues involving the Automox infrastructure. CVE-2021-26908 describes a vulnerability where Automox Agent improperly logs sensitive information on...

Looking Back and Moving Forward With Rapid7’s Cloud Security Solution

This blog post was co-authored by Jamie Gale and Charles Stokes. Done with Q1 The DivvyCloud by Rapid7 team has had a busy and productive start to 2021, and we anticipate that the rest of this year will be equally exciting for our valued customers. In the first three months alone, we incorporated...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): Fortune 500

Today, Rapid7 just released the first in our all-new Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series. For those of you who have been following our research over the past few years, you may immediately suspect us of unloading another 100+ page tome of internet-based findings around the internet—but not...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in the Inaugural Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q1 2021

Independent research firm cites Rapid7 MDR’s “security professionals with extensive incident response and threat hunting experience” delivering a “white-glove, behavioral detection-inspired” service. Detection and response is a critical component to any security program, but standing up an...