Threat Prevention & Detection in SaaS Environments - 101

Identity-based threats on SaaS applications are a growing concern among security professionals, although few have the capabilities to detect and respond to them. According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, 90% of all cyberattacks begin with phishing, an identity-bas...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

The Three Key Competencies that Optimize Data Security Orchestration

One of the principal benefits of a modern data-centric security fabric is being able to automatically apply security controls to the data itself and drive policy-compliant data handling behavior by privileged users. But we all know that detecting a security incident is just the first part of the...

The Tripod Foundation of a Database Analytics Solution for Today’s Threat Landscape

In the first and second posts in this series, we explained why traditional approaches are no longer viable to take on today’s threat landscape and showed why internally-generated attacks are so difficult to stop. In this post, we’ll identify the critical elements of a highly effective database...