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 ...

SOC Automation with InsightIDR and InsightConnect: Three Key Use Cases to Explore to Optimize Your Security Operations

You probably already know that SOC automation with InsightIDR and InsightConnect can decrease your MeanTimeToResponse. It may not be a surprise that automating your security operations will augment your team’s skills and expertise to detect and respond to threats with super speed. You can even...

Indiscriminate Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Servers (CVE-2021-24085)

The following blog post was co-authored by Andrew Christian and Brendan Watters. Beginning Feb. 27, 2021, Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team has observed a notable increase in the automated exploitation of vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers to upload a webshell granting attackers...

New InsightVM Dashboard Helps You Discover Significant Changes in Your Environment from the Past 30 Days

Organizations are in a constant struggle to identify and reduce risks in their constantly changing environments. These changes may manifest by several means and can be recurring events. For example: 1. Laptops and other devices are commissioned or decommissioned due to changes in the workforce. 2...

Vulnerability Scanning With the Metasploit Remote Check Service (Beta Release)

InsightVM and Nexpose customers can now harness the power of the Metasploit community to assess their exposure to the latest threats. The Feb. 3 release of InsightVM and Nexpose version 6.6.63 includes a beta version of the Metasploit Remote Check Service, bringing Metasploit check method...

Upcoming Rapid7 Webcast: How Far Does Your VRM Strategy Go?

Web applications have been growing in complexity over the past several years, while also becoming the preferred method for attackers looking to capitalize on emergent technologies. This is a trend that will only persist and evolve, so it’s crucial to extend your web application testing strategy t...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q4 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’re pretty proud of the work that goes into keeping InsightVM a leader in the vulnerability risk management space. We’re constantly investing in and improving InsightVM capabilities so our customers have no trouble seeing and proving value. That said, here’s our roundup of the n...

Set New InsightVM Goals and Share with Your Team for Increased Visibility and More Efficient Execution

Since 2018, thousands of enterprises have utilized InsightVM’s Goals and SLAs feature to build their organization-specific security goals. Through Goals and SLAs, security teams ensure that they’re making progress toward their goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate pace, and th...

How to Gain Visibility Into Audit Logs for Policy Customization in InsightVM

Since the launch of InsightVM’s Custom Policy Builder in June of this year, hundreds of organizations have created and customized secure configuration policies. While the standard CIS and DISA benchmarks are, by default, great for an organization to kickstart their policy and compliance program,...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

InsightVM Now Integrates With Snyk for Deep Visibility Into Container Vulnerabilities

We know many development teams these days are taking advantage of containerized software applications that may contain all of the necessary code, runtime, system tools, and libraries needed to run an application. Containers are easy to spin up and down, experiment with, and get things done quickl...

New All Apps and Asset Report Combines Power of InsightVM and InsightAppSec for Boosted Visibility

When speaking with customers, we continue to hear that they are looking for more visibility into their vulnerability risk management activities. This could include complete visibility into the various assets within their dynamic environments, or a deeper understanding of attacks that are occurrin...

2020 Under the Hoodie Report Reveals Pen Testers’ Most-Loved Vulnerabilities

Penetration testing “pentesting” is the practice of simulating a criminal breach of a sensitive area in order to uncover and fix defensive failures. Rapid7’s recently released report, Under the Hoodie, draws from the experiences of our Rapid7 pen testing services teamers to highlight key...

How to Create an OS-Based Policy Scanning Workflow in InsightVM

When you first start setting up InsightVM, the No. 1 thing you should be focused on is building sites, running scans, and kicking off reports to start building your vulnerability management program. Once you start feeling comfortable with the vulnerability management flow, policy scanning should ...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q3 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’re pretty proud of the work that goes into keeping InsightVM a leader in the vulnerability risk management space. We’re constantly investing in and improving InsightVM capabilities so our customers have no trouble seeing and proving value. That said, here’s our roundup of the n...

Rapid7 Announces Improvements to Goals and SLAs in InsightVM

We know that proving the efficacy of your vulnerability management program is no easy task. But with the Goals and SLAs feature in InsightVM, you can ensure you’re making and tracking progress toward your goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate place, as well as maintaining...

Scan Template Best Practices in InsightVM

When you start out with one of our vulnerability management solutions, Nexpose or InsightVM, one of the first things you should build and set up is a best practices Scan Template. Because best practices are constantly changing, make sure you look at the date this blog was posted and make your...

Fewer False Alarms, Faster Reporting: InsightVM Introduces New One-Click Fix For False Positives

Let’s talk about false positives. They’re frustrating and faulty, but also about as certain as death and taxes for anyone working in IT security. The good news? We’ve added even more ways to reduce the noise they cause. According to Forrester Consulting’s 2019 study, customers have experienced a...

Heartland Dental’s Ambitions Land Them in the Cloud

Managing security for the largest Dental Support Organization DSO in the United States is no easy task. And sometimes, you need a security services partner to lend a helping hand. We sat down with Heartland Dental to talk about all things security, why they chose Rapid7, how quickly they’re...

There Goes The Neighborhood: Dealing With CVE-2020-16898 (and CVE-2020-1656) (aka"Bad Neighbor")

If you’re in the U.S. and were waiting for an “October surprise”, look no further than CVE-2020-16898 which is a remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack, or what our own Tod Beardsley likes to call “exploiting poor implementations of core IETF RFCs”. The vulnerability...