Shift Left: Secure Your Innovation Pipeline

There’s no shortage of buzzwords in the tech world. Some are purely marketing spin. But others are colloquial ways for the industry to talk about complex topics that have a massive impact on how organizations and teams drive innovation and work more efficiently. Here at Rapid7, we believe the...

What We’re Looking Forward to at AWS re:Inforce

AWS re:Inforce 2022 starts tomorrow — Tuesday, July 26th — and we couldn't be more excited to gather with the tech, cloud, and security communities in our home city of Boston. Here's a sneak peek of the highlights to come at re:Inforce and what we're looking forward to the most this Tuesday and...

Update for CIS Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmarks - Version 1.3.0

The Center for Internet Security CIS recently released an updated version of their Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmarks - Version 1.3.0. Expanding on previous iterations, the update adds 21 new benchmarks covering best practices for securing Google Cloud environments. The updates were broa...

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...

Rapid7 Recognized as Top Ranked in Current Offering Category in Forrester Wave™ for Cloud Workload Security

The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. But the speed of those changes, combined with the increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environments, often forces...

3 Reasons to Join Rapid7’s Cloud Security Summit

The world of the cloud never stops moving — so neither can cloud security. In the face of rapidly evolving technology and a constantly changing threat landscape, keeping up with all the latest developments, trends, and best practices in this emerging practice is more vital than ever. Enter Rapid7...

Stay Ahead of Threats With Cloud Workload Protection

When it comes to cloud-native applications, optimal security requires a modern, integrated, and automated approach that starts in development and extends to runtime protection. Cloud workload protection CWP helps make that goal possible by bringing major structural changes to software development...

Kubernetes Guardrails: Bringing DevOps and Security Together on Cloud

Cloud and container technologies are being increasingly embraced by organizations around the globe because of the efficiency, superior visibility, and control they provide to DevOps and IT teams. While DevOps teams see the benefits of cloud and container solutions, these tools create a learning...

InsightCloudSec Supports 12 New AWS Services Announced at re:Invent

In case you didn’t hear, Amazon hosted AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week. As has come to be expected at the annual mega-event, Amazon made a number of huge announcements and launched a significant number of improvements and brand-new services and settings to enhance their public cloud platform...

Automation Enables Innovation in the Cloud

As public cloud adoption continues to grow year after year, we see more and more enterprises realizing the strategic advantage the cloud can provide to help deliver new and innovative products quicker, roll out new features with ease, and reach new customers. But along with those advantages comes...

OMIGOD: How to Automatically Detect and Fix Microsoft Azure’s New OMI Vulnerability

Update: On September 16, 2021, Microsoft released an updated OMS agent v1.13.40-0 that addresses these vulnerabilities. You can download the updated version from Microsoft's GitHub repo here. In response, our team is updating the pre-built insight in InsightCloudSec to specifically look for...

Cloud Challenges in the Age of Remote Work: Rapid7’s 2021 Cloud Misconfigurations Report

A lot changed in 2020, and the way businesses use the cloud was no exception. According to one study, 90% of organizations plan to increase their use of cloud infrastructure following the COVID-19 pandemic, and 61% are planning to optimize the way they currently use the cloud. The move to the clo...

Introducing InsightCloudSec

A little over a year ago, when DivvyCloud first combined forces with Rapid7, I wrote that we did it because of culture, technology alignment, and the opportunity to drive even greater innovation in cloud security. Those core values remain true, and so does something else. As more organizations...