What Is a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Tool?

Your security team is talented, but they aren't miracle workers. With a persistent skills shortage and ever-tightening budgets, asking them to patch every single vulnerability is not just unrealistic; it's inefficient. Chasing low-risk issues wastes valuable time and leads to burnout, all while...

Threat Intelligence for Exposure Management: How TI Powers Smarter CTEM Programs

Your security team has access to more vulnerability data than ever before. Scanners produce thousands of findings each week. Threat feeds deliver a steady stream of indicators. Yet most organizations still struggle with the same fundamental problem: deciding what to fix first. The disconnect...

How to Prioritize Vulnerabilities Effectively: A Framework

Attackers don’t care about your massive backlog of "critical" vulnerabilities. They look for the path of least resistance—the one exploitable weakness that gives them a foothold into your network. If your vulnerability management program isn't thinking like an attacker, you're always one step...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

SBOM CVE Scanner - Enhanced Edition A comprehensive Python to...

Rapid7 vs. Hive Pro: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Threat intelligence and Business context are the secret sauces that transform vulnerability management from a frantic game of whack-a-mole into a strategic, focused risk management and security practice. Without it, you’re just staring at a massive list of vulnerabilities with little to no contex...

The Ultimate CISO Dashboard: A Complete Guide

Traditional vulnerability management can feel like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You patch one critical issue, and three more pop up, leaving your team feeling burnt out and perpetually behind. A modern dashboard changes the game entirely. By integrating real-world threat intelligence, it...

The 6-Step Threat and Vulnerability Management Process

Think of your security program as a house. You can have the best locks and alarm systems, but if the foundation is cracked, the whole structure is at risk. Threat and vulnerability management TVM is that foundation. It’s the continuous process of finding weaknesses in your systems, figuring out...

How BAS Improves Vulnerability Management (And Why)

A vulnerability without context is just a data point. A medium-severity flaw might seem like a low priority, but what if you knew it was being actively used in a new ransomware campaign targeting your industry? This is why threat intelligence is so crucial. The answer to how does BAS improve...

Your Guide to PCI DSS 4.0.1 Web Application and API Controls with a Simplified Path to Compliance

Executive Summary PCI DSS 4.0.1 compliance mandates stricter security controls for web applications and APIs. Key updates include maintaining an inventory of custom software PCI 6.3.2 and managing payment page scripts to prevent skimming attacks PCI 6.4.3. Organizations must also adopt risk-based...

What is EPSS? How to Correctly Correctly Prioritize Vulnerabilities

Let's cut right to it. Your vulnerability management team has a list of vulnerabilities longer than your arm, and every single one seems to be a top priority. But you don't have the time or resources to fix everything at once. You need a way to focus on what truly matters right now. This is the...

Strategic Benefits of Vulnerability Prioritization

Think of your security team as the staff in a hospital emergency room. They can't treat every patient at once, so they perform triage, focusing on the most critical cases first to save lives. Vulnerability prioritization is security triage. Your organization has a seemingly endless list of...

The 5-Step Exposure Remediation Automation Process

Security teams are often buried under a mountain of vulnerability alerts. The daily reality is a constant scramble to patch the most critical issues, leaving a massive backlog of lower-priority—but still dangerous—exposures. This reactive cycle is exhausting and unsustainable. It’s like trying to...

Defend Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Curated Vulnerability Intelligence

Let’s be honest, we as an industry spend far too long responding to issues that simply don’t matter. Chasing down false positives, reviewing threat intelligence reports that bear no relation to our sector, and more recently reviewing vulnerability advisories of systems not deployed within the...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2025 in Review

At Rapid7, we started off the year focused on delivering new features and advancements across our products and services to bring you the context needed to prioritize exposures, visualize your attack surface, and accelerate incident response. Read on for Q1 2025 release highlights across the Comma...

The Importance of Asset Context in Attack Surface Management.

This is the last of the four blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series, The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy, and Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery covering the foundational elements of Attack...

EPSS vs. CVSS: What's the Best Approach to Vulnerability Prioritization?

Many businesses rely on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS to assess the severity of vulnerabilities for prioritization. While these scores provide some insight into the potential impact of a vulnerability, they don't factor in real-world threat data, such as the likelihood of...

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...

De-risking Your Organization in Spite of NVD Delays

In the face of recent struggles with the National Vulnerability Database NVD, causing delays in analyzing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs since February 12, 2024, a significant number of CVEs lacked essential metadata including severity scores and affected product details. Qualys remain...

#StopRansomware: ALPHV Blackcat

Actions to take today to mitigate against the threat of ransomware: 1. Routinely take inventory of assets and data to identify authorized and unauthorized devices and software. 2. Prioritize remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities. 3. Enable and enforce multifactor authentication with stro...

November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review

November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review. Hello everyone! It has been 3 months since the last episode. I spent most of this time improving my Vulristics project. So in this episode, let’s take a loo...