InsightVM: Analytics-driven Vulnerability Management, All The Way To The End(point)

In 2015 Rapid7 introduced the Insight platform, built to reduce the complexity inherent in security analytics. This reality was introduced first to our InsightIDR users, who now had the capabilities of a SIEM, powered by user behavior analytics UBA and endpoint detection. Soon we started to roll...

German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage

German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp disclosed last week that technical trade secrets were stolen in a cyberattack that dates back to February. Adversaries, ThyssenKrupp said, engaged in “organized, highly professional hacker activities” and launched their attack from the Southeast Asian...

FTC Panel Encourages Basic Security Hygiene to Counter Ransomware

When asked to describe what it’s like to deal with the constantly looming threat of ransomware, Chad Wilson, the Director of Information Security at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C., didn’t beat around the bush. “I’ll sum it up in one word: It’s scary,” Wilson said at a Feder...