Driving down MTTR with Remediation Hub, Available in Rapid7 Exposure Command

Co-authored by Peter Whibley, Ed Montgomery, and Joel Alcon Technology innovation combined with the highly fragmented nature of today's IT landscape means that vulnerabilities are being exploited faster and at greater scale than ever. Security teams contend with a daily surge of new threat actors...

A New Approach to Managing Vulnerabilities is Required - Work Smarter not Harder with Rapid7 Remediation Hub

The volume of common vulnerabilities and exposures CVEs identified has now reached a level that even the organization tasked with managing them can no longer keep up. The National Vulnerability Database NVD announced in February 2024 that it would no longer provide common vulnerability scoring...

Steps to TruRisk™ – 1: Shift to Priority-Driven Strategies

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” — Sun Tzu Security and IT teams are drowning in alerts, scrambling to patch everything they can, yet breaches still happen. Not all vulnerabilities pose the same risk. While reducing totals may seem like...

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...

IBM Security Verify Access Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as web, mobile, IoT and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated acce...

Embracing a Risk-Based Cybersecurity Approach With ASRM

Explore how a risk-based cybersecurity approach is critical to proactively stopping dynamic, ever-evolving threats...

Qualys VMDR Rated as the Only Leader and Outperformer by Independent Analyst Firm for the Second Consecutive Year

Qualys VMDR received the highest possible scores for risk-based assessment, cloud-native and serverless function scanning, and flexibility of deployment, among 20 vendors evaluated in this report. As the threat landscape evolves, vulnerability management remains a cornerstone of security...

Three Recommendations for Creating a Risk-Based Detection and Response Program

It should come as little surprise to most security professionals that keeping pace with the evolution of threat actors has become harder and harder. Maintaining visibility into the threat landscape and on top of external risk vectors is more than a matter of incorporating more point solutions. It...

Three Recommendations for Creating a Risk-Based Detection and Response Program

It should come as little surprise to most security professionals that keeping pace with the evolution of threat actors has become harder and harder. Maintaining visibility into the threat landscape and on top of external risk vectors is more than a matter of incorporating more point solutions. It...

Evolution of Attack Surface Management

The Early Days: Basic Asset Management While it was not called ASM, the concept of managing attack surface management began with basic asset management practices in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Organizations focused on keeping an inventory of their digital assets, such as servers, desktops, an...

PCI DSS 4.0: Get Audit-Ready for the New Requirements

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS originated in 2004 and is managed by the PCI Security Standards Council to ensure security for the global payment industry. This mandate applies to all entities worldwide that store, process, or transmit payment cardholder data or sensitive...

IBM Security verify Access Appliance Security Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as web, mobile, IoT and cloud technologies through the use of risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated acce...

De-risk the Software Supply Chain by Expanding Unparalleled Detection Coverage With Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis

QIDs/CVEs When it comes to cybersecurity, speed is key in getting an edge over attackers. But when you consider that vulnerabilities weaponize 24 days faster than then they are remediated on average, cybersecurity stakeholders have a lot of catching up to do. While there are many ways defenders c...

IBM Security Verify Access Appliance and IBM Application Gateway Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as the Web, mobile, IoT and cloud using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls...

IBM Security Verify Access Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-16916)

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as the Web, mobile, IoT and cloud using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls...

IBM Security Verify Access 安全漏洞

IBM Security Verify Access ISAM is a service from International Business Machines IBM that improves user access security. The service enables secure and simple access to platforms such as the Web, mobile, IoT and cloud using risk-based access, single sign-on, integrated access management controls...

How to Prioritize Cybersecurity Spending: A Risk-Based Strategy for the Highest ROI

As an IT leader, staying on top of the latest cybersecurity developments is essential to keeping your organization safe. But with threats coming from all around — and hackers dreaming up new exploits every day — how do you create proactive, agile cybersecurity strategies? And what cybersecurity...

How to Achieve the Best Risk-Based Alerting (Bye-Bye SIEM)

Did you know that Network Detection and Response NDR has become the most effective technology to detect cyber threats? In contrast to SIEM, NDR offers adaptive cybersecurity with reduced false alerts and efficient threat response. Are you aware of Network Detection and Response NDR and how it's...

Embracing a risk-based cybersecurity approach with ASRM

Explore how a risk-based cybersecurity approach is critical to proactively stop dynamic, ever-evolving threats...

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...