MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 5: Multiple Threat Detection Methodologies, Including Deep Attacker Behavior Analysis

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR service providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Let’s start with an analogy: Say you’re a fisherman out on a mission to specifically catch tuna. You thr...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 2: Ingestion of Network Device Data

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” There are many factors to consider when assessing which Managed Detection and Response MDR vendor is the right f...

A Tip For Easy SQL-based Big Data Analysis: Use a Temporary Dataset

Every once in a while we’re required to analyze big data on a wide time range. Here’s a common example: “Can you analyze what happened during 2020? And don’t forget to compare it to 2019”. Questions like this are hard to answer in the big data world: Queries may take a long time to process - and...

InsightIDR’s NTA Capabilities Expanded to AWS

We’re excited to announce we have expanded the Network Traffic Analysis NTA capabilities in InsightIDR to support Amazon Web Services AWS environments. This means InsightIDR and MDR customers can now ingest detailed network data from AWS, including north/south and east/west traffic across a...

InsightIDR: 2020 Highlights and What’s Ahead in 2021

As we kick off 2021 here at Rapid7, we wanted to take a minute to reflect on 2020, highlight some key InsightIDR product investments we don’t want you to miss, and take a look ahead at where our team sees detection and response going this year. Rapid7 detection and response 2020 highlights Whenev...

Buyer's Guide for Securing Internal Environment with a Small Cybersecurity Team

Ensuring the cybersecurity of your internal environment when you have a small security team is challenging. If you want to maintain the highest security level with a small team, your strategy has to be 'do more with less,' and with the right technology, you can leverage your team and protect your...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Mingguo APT Attack Warning Platform of Hangzhou Anheng Information Technology Co.

Mingguo APT attack warning platform is a software and hardware integrated product independently developed by ACE for in-depth analysis of network traffic. APT Attack Warning Platform of Hangzhou ACE Information Technology Co., Ltd. has weak password vulnerability, which can be utilized by attacke...

Deep learning: An explanation and a peek into the future

Deep learning is one of the most advanced forms of machine learning, and is showing new developments in many industries. In this article, well explain the concept and give some examples of the latest and greatest ways its being used. What is deep learning? There have been many attempts at creatin...

Introducing Enhanced Endpoint Telemetry (EET) in InsightIDR

Rapid7 detection and response customers have access to, and insights from, our experts and research driving the industry forward. This includes a robust library of out-of-the box detections curated from our global managed SOC team, plus insights from Rapid7’s global threat intelligence network...

API Discovery and Profiling -- Visibility to Protection

APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings. Protecting internet-facing APIs -- an emerging practice over the past few years -- is the...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q3 2020 in Review

In July, we provided a rundown of what was new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool, from the first half of 2020 check out the blog post here for a recap. We’ve released some pretty great features and updates since then, so we thought it was time for another recap! This post offers a closer...

Rapid7 Releases Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of September, and with it comes Rapid7’s Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report. As in previous quarters, our Rapid7 research team produced this report by analyzing the data from our internet telemetry-gathering systems Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg, as...

Product Overview: Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine

We have all heard of the “cybersecurity skills gap” – the inability of firms to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent. This gap has been manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, compani...

Fast, Furious, and Scalable: Designing a High-throughput, Real-time Network Traffic Analyzer

These days, our focus is on spoiling our customers. For example, we give our DDoS Protection customers the peace of mind that their network traffic is routing through Impervas cloud for consistent volumetric attack protection. That protection works pretty well, but customers have started asking u...

Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras

Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what's going on in front of the camera, and infer when there is someone home. News article. Slashdot thread...

Ntop nDPI Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Ntop nDPI is an open source library for deep packet inspection from Ntop Italy. An input validation error vulnerability exists in the SSH protocol parser in Ntop nDPI 3.2 Stable and prior versions, which can be exploited by attackers to execute code or perform network traffic analysis...

Integer overflow

In nDPI through 3.2 Stable, the SSH protocol dissector has multiple KEXINIT integer overflows that result in a controlled remote heap overflow in concathashstring in ssh.c. Due to the granular nature of the overflow primitive and the ability to control both the contents and layout of the nDPI...

CVE-2020-11939

In nDPI through 3.2 Stable, the SSH protocol dissector has multiple KEXINIT integer overflows that result in a controlled remote heap overflow in concathashstring in ssh.c. Due to the granular nature of the overflow primitive and the ability to control both the contents and layout of the nDPI...

Download Guide: Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...