What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: 2023 Year in Review

Throughout 2023 Rapid7 has made investments across the Insight Platform to further our mission of providing security teams with the tools to proactively anticipate imminent risk, prevent breaches earlier, and respond faster to threats. In this blog you'll find a review of our top releases from th...

Uncover and Remediate Toxic Combinations with Attack Path Analysis

Particularly at enterprise scale, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of resources running across your cloud environments at any given time. Of course, these resources aren’t running independently. In modern environments, these resources are all interconnected and in many cases...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q1 2023 in Review

InsightIDR received a number of exciting updates in Q1 2023, including faster search, a redesigned UI, updated investigations, support for Insight Network Sensor, Enhanced Endpoint Telemetry, and more. In our effort to empower practitioners to feel confident in their detection and response...

3 Steps for Ramping Up to Fully Automated Remediation

The number one threat to cloud security is misconfiguration of resources, and frankly, it's not hard to understand why. The cloud is getting bigger, more tangled, and flat-out more unmanageable by the day. In modern Amazon Web Services AWS environments, there are typically millions of resources...

A Shifting Attack Landscape: Rapid7’s 2022 Vulnerability Intelligence Report

Each year, the research team at Rapid7 analyzes thousands of vulnerabilities in order to identify their root causes, broaden understanding of attacker behavior, and provide actionable intelligence that guides security professionals at critical moments. Our annual Vulnerability Intelligence Report...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.7: Better Offline Collection, Encryption, and an Improved NTFS Parser Dig Deeper Than Ever

By Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.7 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. This release has been in development and testing for...

New MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation: Rapid7 MDR Excels

Every Managed Services organization claims they have the expertise and technology to effectively detect and respond to threats. But can they prove it? Assessing these services and how they’d perform in a real-world scenario just got easier with results from the first ever MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations...

[Security Nation] Phillip Maddux on HoneyDB, the Open-Source Honeypot Data Project

!\Security Nation\ Phillip Maddux on HoneyDB, the Open-Source Honeypot Data Projecthttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Phillip Maddux about his project HoneyDB, a site that pulls data together from honeypo...

Identifying Cloud Waste to Contain Unnecessary Costs

Cloud adoption has exploded over the past decade or so, and for good reason. Many digital transformation advancements – and even the complete reimagination of entire industries – can be directly mapped and attributed to cloud innovation. While this rapid pace of innovation has had a profound impa...

Find, Fix, and Report ​OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities in InsightAppSec

With the release of the new 2021 OWASP Top 10 late last year, OWASP made some fundamental and impactful changes to its ubiquitous reference framework. We published a high-level breakdown of the changes, followed by some deep dives into specific types of threats that made the new Top 10. But the...

Is Your Kubernetes Cluster Ready for Version 1.24?

Kubernetes rolled out Version 1.24 on May 3, 2022, as its first release of 2022. This version is packed with some notable improvements, as well as new and deprecated features. In this post, we will cover some of the more significant items on the list. The Dockershim removal The new release has...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Meterpreter Debugging A consistent message Metasploit hears from users is that debugging and general logging support could be improved. The gaps in functionality make it difficult for users to understand what happens when things go wrong and for new and existing developers to fix bugs and add new...

4 Fallacies That Keep SMBs Vulnerable to Ransomware, Pt. 2

This post is co-authored by Chris Henderson, Senior Director of Information Security at Datto, Inc. Welcome back for the second and final of our blogs on the fallacies and biases that perpetuate ransomware risk for SMBs. In part one, we examined how flawed thinking and a sense of helplessness are...

SIEM and XDR: What’s Converging, What’s Not

Let’s start with the conclusion: Security incident and event management SIEM isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Today, most security analysts are using their SIEMs for detection and response, making it the core tool within the security operations center SOC. SIEM aggregates and monitors critical...

How Ransomware Is Changing US Federal Policy

In past decades, attackers breaching systems and stealing sensitive information prompted a wave of regulations focused on consumer privacy and breach notification. The current surge in ransomware attacks is prompting a new wave of action from policymakers. Unlike the more abstract harms threatene...

2022 Planning: Simplifying Complex Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance does not equal security, but it’s also true that a strong cybersecurity program meets many compliance obligations. How can we communicate industry regulatory requirements in a more straightforward way that enhances understanding while saving time and effort? How can we more easily...

InsightCloudSec Supports 12 New AWS Services Announced at re:Invent

In case you didn’t hear, Amazon hosted AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week. As has come to be expected at the annual mega-event, Amazon made a number of huge announcements and launched a significant number of improvements and brand-new services and settings to enhance their public cloud platform...

Announcing the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF

It’s time for another Metasploit community CTF! Last year’s beginner-friendly CTF attracted a wider range of audiences and skill levels than in previous years, so we’re replicating our previous game architecture. Players will attack a single Linux target, we’ve spread prizes out across 15 teams,...

Rapid7 Technical Support: Building a Career Path With Endless Possibilities

At Rapid7, our Technical Support teams deliver a world-class support experience to our customers across the globe. We have Support Moose on 4 continents, in 10 offices, and across 8 time zones, but we're all one herd. So, how do we achieve this? We swarm on cases together each day, we collaborate...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 5: Insider Threat

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 5: Insider Threathttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security with...

Cloud Challenges in the Age of Remote Work: Rapid7’s 2021 Cloud Misconfigurations Report

A lot changed in 2020, and the way businesses use the cloud was no exception. According to one study, 90% of organizations plan to increase their use of cloud infrastructure following the COVID-19 pandemic, and 61% are planning to optimize the way they currently use the cloud. The move to the clo...

This One Time on a Pen Test: I Know...Everything

Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report. It...

Critical Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2026-50751)

Overview On June 8, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-50751, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Check Point Remote Access VPN, Mobile Access, and Spark Firewall products. The vulnerability affects deployments configured to use the deprecated IKEv1...

Patch Tuesday - April 2026

Microsoft is publishing 167 vulnerabilities on April 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for one of today’s vulnerabilities, and public disclosure for one other. Microsoft evaluates 19 of the vulnerabilities published today as more likely to see future exploitation...

Recognizing Excellence: Rapid7’s Kelly Hiscoe and Heather DeMartini Honored as CRN’s 2025 Women of the Channel

We are thrilled to announce that two outstanding Rapid7 team members, Kelly Hiscoe and Heather DeMartini, have been recognized as CRN's 2025 Women of the Channel. This prestigious recognition honors innovative and strategic leaders that demonstrate commitment to advancing channel excellence and...

Deepening the MDR partnership: Rapid7 now delivers Active Remediation with Velociraptor

Rapid7 is expanding its response capabilities to meet the demands and relentless pace of today’s threat landscape – and the operational needs of our customers. Partnership means many things to us here at Rapid7. It means showing up with trusted expertise, providing clear guidance in moments of...

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...

From Noise to Action: Introducing Intelligence Hub

Co-authored by Raj Samani Chief Scientist & Craig Adams Chief Product Officer In traditional conflicts, intelligence is both integral and beneficial to decision-making at every level. Unfortunately, in cybersecurity, the impact of threat intelligence as an asset for organizations—and in particula...

Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware

Executive Summary Beginning in early October, Rapid7 has observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by Black Basta ransomware operators. Rapid7 initially reported the discovery of the novel social engineering campaign back in May, 2024,...

The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management (ASM) Strategy

In part one of this blog series, we looked at some of the core challenges that are driving the demand for a new approach to Attack Surface Management. In this second blog I explore some of the key technology approaches to ASM and also some of the core asset types we need to understand. We can bre...

The Take Command Summit: A Stacked Agenda, and Killer Guest Speakers Coming Your Way May 21

By now you should have heard about Take Command, Rapid7’s day-long virtual summit on May 21 bringing together some of the best minds in the cybersecurity sphere for comprehensive discussions on the latest data, challenges, and opportunities in the industry. It’s an opportunity to expand your...

Rapid7 Recognized by Newsweek as one of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’.

On December 13th, Newsweek Magazine published their list of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’. Like many companies today, Rapid7 recognizes the positive impact diversity plays in driving organizational success, attracting and retaining exceptional talent, and creating positiv...

When Maximum Effort Doesn't Equate to Maximum Results

It’s no secret that security teams are feeling beleaguered as a result of the barrage of data, events, and alerts generated by their security tools, to say nothing of the increased budget scrutiny and constrained staff resources that continue to plague cybersecurity practitioners. The trick is...

NEW RESEARCH: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Can Be Used to Stop DAST Attacks Before they Start

Within cloud security, one of the most prevalent tools is dynamic application security testing, or DAST. DAST is a critical component of a robust application security framework, identifying vulnerabilities in your cloud applications either pre or post deployment that can be remediated for a...

Setup of Discovery Connection Azure

By: fuzzy borders Are you having trouble trying to get your Azure assets into your InsightVM security console? In this blog post, we wanted to bring additional insight into leveraging the Azure Discovery Connection with InsightVM. This blog post is brought to you by the Fuzzy Borders project, who...

Velociraptor 0.7.0 Release: Dig Deeper With Enhanced Client Search, Server Improvements and Expanded VQL Library

Carlos Canto contributed to this article. Rapid7 is thrilled to announce version 0.7.0 of Velociraptor is now LIVE and available for download. The focus of this release was on improving user efficiency while also expanding and strengthening the library of VQL plug-ins and artifacts. Let’s take a...

Healthcare Orgs: Do You Need an Outsourced SOC?

Gartner predicts that 50% of organizations will partner with an external MDR Managed Detection and Response service by 2025 for around-the-clock monitoring. What determines where healthcare organizations fall on that 50/50 split over using an outsourced SOC? It usually comes down to their ability...

Rapid7 Announces Partner of the Year Awards 2023 Winners

It’s with immense pleasure that we announce today the winners of the Rapid7 Partner of the Year Awards 2023. All our category winners have achieved exceptional growth—demonstrating their dedication to, and collaboration with, the Rapid7 Partner Program throughout the year. “We are incredibly...

CIEM is Required for Cloud Security and IAM Providers to Compete: Gartner® Report

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations stay competitive, we’re pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner® report, Emerging Tech: CIEM Is Required for Cloud Security and IAM Providers to Compete. The research in the report demonstrates the need for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement...

Gartner® Report: Questions to Ask When Selecting an MDR Provider

Measuring against the right criteria The “right” criteria is whatever works to further your security organization’s specific needs in detection and response D&R. There’s only so much budget to go around—and successfully obtaining a significant year-over-year increase can be rare. The last thing...

Powerlifting in the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

All the reasons Is there too much to do with too little talent? If your SOC hasn’t been running smoothly in a while, there’s likely multiple reasons why. As a popular slang phrase goes these days, it’s because of “all the reasons.” Budget, talent churn, addressing alerts all over the place; you...

Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

GraphQL Security: The Next Evolution in API Protection

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language that can be used to build application program interfaces APIs. Since its initial inception by Facebook in 2012 and subsequent release in 2015, GraphQL has grown steadily in popularity. Some estimate that by 2025, more than 50% of...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1

Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...

Cloud IAM Done Right: How LPA Helps Significantly Reduce Cloud Risk

Authored by Sanjeev Williams and Ryan Blanchard Today almost all cloud users, roles, and identities are overly permissive. This leads to repeated headlines and forensic reports of attackers leveraging weak identity postures to gain a foothold, and then moving laterally within an organization's...

The Empty SOC Shop: Where Has All the Talent Gone?

Anyone involved in hiring security analysts in the last few years is likely painfully aware of the cybersecurity skills shortage – but the talent hasn’t “gone anywhere” so much as it’s been bouncing around all over the place, looking for the highest bidder and most impactful work environment...

25 Years of Nmap: Happy Scan-iversary!

I didn't know it then, but on September 1, 1997, my life changed. That was the day that Fyodor's Nmap was first released to the world, courtesy of the venerable Phrack magazine. By the way, check out our recent podcast with Fyodor himself if you haven’t yet. At the time, I had just started my...

Avoiding Smash and Grab Under the SEC’s Proposed Cyber Rule

The SEC recently proposed a regulation to require all public companies to report cybersecurity incidents within four days of determining that the incident is material. While Rapid7 generally supports the proposed rule, we are concerned that the rule requires companies to publicly disclose a cyber...

[Security Nation] Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022

!\Security Nation\ Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Tod and Jen chat about their experience at this year’s Hacker Summer Camp, the multi-event lineup of cybersecurity conferences in La...

No Damsels in Distress: How Media and Entertainment Companies Can Secure Data and Content

Streaming is king in the media and entertainment industry. According to the Motion Picture Association’s Theatrical and Home Entertainment Market Environment Report, the global number of streaming subscribers grew to 1.3 billion in 2021. Consumer demand for immediate digital delivery is...