XDR meets IAM: Comprehensive identity threat detection and response with Microsoft

Identity has become the corporate security perimeter. The average organization used 130 different cloud applications in 2022. That’s up 18 percent from 2021 alone.1 And as organizations continue to embrace digital transformation and enable remote work, they look to identity and access management...

XDR meets IAM: Comprehensive identity threat detection and response with Microsoft

Identity has become the corporate security perimeter. The average organization used 130 different cloud applications in 2022. That’s up 18 percent from 2021 alone.1 And as organizations continue to embrace digital transformation and enable remote work, they look to identity and access management...

Manage Cyber Risk with a Platform Approach

Discover how a platform approach can best assist and support security operations teams with a cyber risk management so you can be more resilient with less resources...

7 Rapid Questions: Lindsey Searle

Welcome back to 7 Rapid Questions, our blog series where we ask passionate leaders at Rapid7 to give us an inside look at what it’s like to work on their team, and how they’re creating an impact every day. In this installment, we talk to Lindsey Searle, Senior Manager, Customer Advisors on how he...

Partnering and prioritization: Lessons learned when building security operations at hyperspeed

CISOs share their experiences ensuring security in fast-growth environments...

Understanding metrics to measure SOC effectiveness

The security operations center SOC plays a critical role in protecting an organizations assets and reputation by identifying, analyzing, and responding to cyberthreats in a timely and effective manner. Additionally, SOCs also help to improve overall security posture by providing add-on services...

Qualys VMDR & Jira Integration Now Available

The increasing number of vulnerabilities poses a significant challenge for most organizations trying to effectively manage and mitigate Cyber risks. According to NVD, the number of vulnerabilities in 2022 increased by approximately 25% as compared to 2021. As we are in start of March the...

Regular Pen Testing Is Key to Resolving Conflict Between SecOps and DevOps

In an ideal world, security and development teams would be working together in perfect harmony. But we live in a world of competing priorities, where DevOps and security departments often butt heads with each other. Agility and security are often at odds with each other— if a new feature is...

3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response: Gartner® Report

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into risk, we’re pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner® report, 3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response. This insightful research can help a security organization reali...

Is an outsourced SOC worth it? Looking at the ROI of MDR

In the turbulent world of cybersecurity, one thing is for certain: Threats are evolving in ways that make them harder for organizations to predict--and stop. For businesses with scarce security staff resources and disconnected, complex toolsets, keeping up with todays cyberthreats is even harder...

2023 Cybersecurity Industry Predictions

With 2022 rapidly coming to a close, this is the time of year where it makes sense to take a step back and look at the year in cybersecurity, and make a few critical predictions for what the industry could face in the year ahead. In order to give the security community some insight into where we’...

7 Reasons to Choose an MDR Provider

According to a recent survey, 90% of CISOs running teams in small to medium-sized enterprises SMEs use a managed detection and response MDR service. That's a 53% increase from last year. Why the dramatic shift to MDR? CISOs at organizations of any size, but especially SMEs, are realizing that the...

Culture Fitness

Have you checked in on the overall health of your team lately? What would a new hire think of your current team? Companies all over the world – particularly those of the higher-profile variety – tout their positive cultures and how great it is to be part of the team. This is especially true in th...

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, our newest managed threat hunting service, delivered industry-leading results during the inaugural MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services. We provided a seamless, comprehensive, and rapid response to the simulated attack using expert-led...

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, our newest managed threat hunting service, delivered industry-leading results during the inaugural MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services. We provided a seamless, comprehensive, and rapid response to the simulated attack using expert-led...

The Empty SOC Shop: Where Has All the Talent Gone?

Anyone involved in hiring security analysts in the last few years is likely painfully aware of the cybersecurity skills shortage – but the talent hasn’t “gone anywhere” so much as it’s been bouncing around all over the place, looking for the highest bidder and most impactful work environment...

The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 1

At Microsoft, we define threat hunting as the practice of actively looking for cyberthreats that have covertly or not so covertly penetrated an environment. This involves looking beyond the known alerts or malicious threats to discover new potential threats and vulnerabilities. Why do incident...

Wordfence Launches Wordfence Intelligence for Hosts and Network Defenders

This morning the Wordfence team is launching Wordfence Intelligence live at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas. Our entire team is here in Las Vegas, including our international team members. Id like to tell you more about what were launching and how Wordfence Intelligence will help us go even further t...

Know Your ServiceNow and Qualys Integrations

If you are a current ServiceNow customer interested in cybersecurity, this blog is for you. If you are a Qualys customer who also uses ServiceNow, this blog is for you too. ServiceNow and Qualys have enjoyed a multi-year partnership, being two of the premier SaaS vendors covering the IT and...

6 Reasons Managed Detection and Response Is Hitting Its Stride

Cyber threats have risen to the 1 concern of CEOs, which means security teams — in the hot seat for years — are really feeling it now. Files and data live in the cloud. Work is hybrid or remote. There’s turmoil around the world. Cyberattacks are not just a distant boogieman – they’re here and...