Using Rapid7 Insight Agent and InsightVM Scan Assistant in Tandem

Background Rapid7 Insight Agent and InsightVM Scan Assistant are executables that can be deployed to assist in understanding the vulnerabilities in your environment. Frequently there are questions around when and where you would deploy each, if you need both, what they actually monitor, etc. This...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2023 in Review

In Q1, our team continued to focus on driving better customer outcomes with InsightVM and Nexpose by further improving efficiency and performance. While many of these updates are under the hood, you may have started to notice faster vulnerability checks available for the recent ETRs or an upgrade...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Vulnerability Management

2022 began on a solemn note — many organizations across the globe were recovering from the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability. For the InsightVM and Nexpose team, 2022 began with a lot of introspection on how we can add more value and keep meeting our customer needs in the best possible ways. This...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q2 2022 in Review

The Vulnerability Management team kicked off Q2 by remediating the instances of Spring4Shell CVE-2022-22965 and Spring Cloud CVE-2022-22963 vulnerabilities that impacted cybersecurity teams worldwide. We also made several investments to both InsightVM and Nexpose throughout the second quarter tha...

Passwordless Network Scanning: Same Insights, Less Risk

Password-based credentials are a ubiquitous part of our online lives, but they are prone to vulnerabilities. Combatting those vulnerabilities has been a major hurdle for security professionals, and it's come at major cost for businesses. We are reinventing the credentialing process for our Networ...