How Federal Agencies Can Activate a Risk Operations Center (ROC) to Meet CISA BOD 26-04

Executive Summary Recognizing the ability of Frontier AI models to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, CISA 's Binding Operational Directive BOD 26-04 marks a significant shift in federal vulnerability management. The directive introduces aggressive mandates,...

What Is a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Platform?

A vulnerability scanner tells you where the cracks are in your defenses, but it doesn't tell you which ones an attacker will actually use. To truly understand your exposure, you need to see your network from their perspective. How can a low-severity flaw on one server be combined with a...

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management: The Complete Guide to Smarter Threat Prioritization

Your vulnerability scanner just flagged 12,000 findings. Your team has the bandwidth to remediate maybe 200 this sprint. Which ones do you fix first? If your answer is "sort by CVSS score and work down the list," you are making the same mistake most security teams make. You are treating a 9.8-rat...

Your Guide to Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Communicating security needs to leadership can be a challenge when you’re just presenting a long list of technical flaws. The conversation shifts when you can talk about risk in clear business terms. Instead of saying "we have 500 critical vulnerabilities," you can say "we have 15 vulnerabilities...

Exploring an Untethered, Unified Approach to CTEM

We live in a world where traditional Vulnerability Management VM has become infosec’s version of ‘whack-a-mole’— an attempt to tackle risks that constantly shift, multiply, and morph. As organizations push workloads to the cloud, offer customers digital experiences, or as they build AI-enabled...

Exploring an Untethered, Unified Approach to CTEM

We live in a world where traditional Vulnerability Management VM has become infosec’s version of ‘whack-a-mole’— an attempt to tackle risks that constantly shift, multiply, and morph. As organizations push workloads to the cloud, offer customers digital experiences, or as they build AI-enabled...

Rapid7 Fills Gaps in the CVE Assessment Process with AI-Generated Vulnerability Scoring in Exposure Command

NIST released an update highlighting that there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs this is also discussed in detail in our blog post from March of 2024. Due to resource constraints and an inability to keep up with the volume of newly-disclosed vulnerabilities, NVD shift...

The Importance of Continuous Security Monitoring for a Robust Cybersecurity Strategy

In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are long-term consequences like diminished customer trust, weakened brand value, and derailed business operations. In a world where the frequency and cost of data breaches are...