Update to GLBA Security Requirements for Financial Institutions

Heads up financial institutions: the Federal Trade Commission FTC announced the first cybersecurity updates to the Gramm Leach-Bliley Act GLBA Safeguards Rule since 2003. The new rule strengthens the required security safeguards for customer information. This includes formal risk assessments,...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon 29 IoT Village, Part 3

In our first post in this series, we covered the setup of Rapid7's hands-on exercise at Defcon 29's IoT Village. Last week, we discussed how to determine the UART status of the header we created and how to actually start hacking on the IoT device. The goal in this next phase of the IoT hacking...

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...

SOAR Tools: What to Look for When Investing in Security Automation Tech

Security orchestration and automation SOAR refers to a collection of software solutions and tools that organizations can leverage to streamline security operations in three key areas: threat and vulnerability management, incident response, and security-operations automation. From a single platfor...

The Story Behind Security Breaches

There are many potential causes of security breaches, including malicious attacks, system glitches, equipment failures, software bugs, and zero days. What is a common root cause here? Human error. According to Micke Ahola, “In a security context, human error means unintentional actions—or lack of...

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...

Decentralize Remediation Efforts to Gain More Efficiency with InsightVM

Let’s talk about the reality of the remediation process today. We know it is often a cumbersome and time-consuming process, and it can be challenging for a Security team to work with IT Operations and Development teams, servicing many assets and owners. There isn’t a vulnerability management team...

CVE-2026-1731: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA)

Overview On February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust released security advisory BT26-02, disclosing a critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability affecting its Remote Support RS and Privileged Remote Access PRA products. Assigned CVE-2026-1731 and a near-maximum CVSSv4 score of 9.9,...

The End of the Road for Cisco Kenna: Take a Measured Path into Exposure Management

Cisco’s announcement that it will sunset Cisco Vulnerability Management Kenna marks a clear inflection point for many security teams. With end-of-sale and end-of-life timelines now defined, and no replacement offering on the roadmap, Kenna customers face an unavoidable decision window. Beyond the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/31/2025

New module content 3 ReDoc API Docs UI Exposed Author: Hamza Sahin Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 20594 contributed by HamzaSahin61 Path: scanner/http/redocexposed Description: Adds a module to detect publicly exposed ReDoc API documentation pages using read-only HTTP GET requests searching for...

Rapid7 Q1 2025 Incident Response Findings

Rapid7’s Q1 2025 incident response data highlights several key initial access vector IAV trends, shares salient examples of incidents investigated by the Rapid7 Incident Response IR team, and digs into threat data by industry as well as some of the more commonly seen pieces of malware appearing i...

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...

Rapid7 MDR Supports AWS GuardDuty's New Attack Sequence Alerts

Co-authored by Yaron Kaplan and Gil Shamgar. AWS GuardDuty has introduced two powerful new alerts that enhance its threat detection capabilities: "Potential Credential Compromise" and "Potential S3 Data Compromise." These alerts go beyond traditional threat detection by focusing on attack...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/07/2025

Gathering data and improving workflows This week's release includes 2 new auxiliary modules targeting Argus Surveillance DVR and Ivanti Connect Secure. The former, contributed by Maxwell Francis, and based on the work of John Page, can be used to retrieve arbitrary files on the target's filesyste...

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,...

Celebrating Excellence: Joanne Guariglia and Kelly Hiscoe Recognized as CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel

We are thrilled to announce that two of our exceptional team members, Joanne Guariglia and Kelly Hiscoe, have been recognized as CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel. This recognition celebrates the achievements and leadership of women within the channel community, and we are incredibly proud to see...

Challenges Drive Career Growth: Meet Rudina Tafhasaj

Starting a career for the first time in a new country can be intimidating. For Rudina Tafhasaj, her path to Senior Application Engineer at Rapid7 was paved with both unique challenges, and incredible rewards. Growing up, Rudina was inspired to get into technology by her older brother. “He loved...

7 Rapid Questions with #77 Ray Bourque

We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring Boston Bruins legend Ray Bourque into the herd as we continue to expand our Bruins jersey sponsorship. Ray is an absolute hero to Bruins fans everywhere. He has cemented his status in the annals of Boston sports history through 21 seasons in the black...

5 Insights from the Latest Cybersecurity Trends Research

Rapid7 is committed to promoting research that identifies the latest cybersecurity trends so that organizations can leverage these insights and create programs that make sense for the modern SOC. To that end, we’ve singled out five quick insights security professionals and stakeholders should...

Expanded Coverage and New Attack Path Visualizations Help Security Teams Prioritize Cloud Risk and Understand Blast Radius

Cloud environments differ in a number of ways from more traditional on-prem environments. From the immense scale and compounding complexity to the rate of change, the cloud creates a host of challenges for security teams to navigate and grapple with. By definition, anything running in the cloud h...

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...

Rapid7 Takes 2023 SC Awards for Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection

The highly respected SC Awards program, hosted by SC Media, recognizes the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security. Now in its 26th year, the SC Awards continue to grow and evolve. Rapid7 is proud to announce we have received not one, but two...

PenTales: There Are Many Ways to Infiltrate the Cloud

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...

The Japanese Technology and Media Attack Landscape

Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...

Rapid7 Solutions for Partners

Central to our mission at Rapid7 is building long-term relationships with partners who deliver valuable security solutions to customers. As customers increasingly seek managed services to meet their security needs, we've eagerly expanded our partner ecosystem to support a rapidly growing body of...

Standardizing SaaS Data to Drive Greater Cloud Security Efficacy

The way we do business has fundamentally changed, and as a result, so must security. Whether it’s legacy modernization initiatives, process improvements, or bridging the gap between physical and digital—most organizational strategies and initiatives involve embracing the cloud. However, investing...

Build Security Muscle Memory With Tabletop Exercises

When I was in grade school, I played football. I was scrawny and afraid to go up against anyone bigger than I was essentially everyone. I always hated Oklahoma drills and scrimmages with my team. For quite some time, I avoided “the tunnel” hoping to evade facing the bigger linemen. My coach sat m...

What Tech Companies Should Look For in Cloud Security

The cloud's computing power and flexibility unlocks unprecedented speed and efficiency—a tech company's two best friends. But with that speed and efficiency comes new environments and touchpoints in an organization's footprint. That expanding attack surface brings along with it an expanding range...

Trading Convenience for Credentials

Tap. Eat. Repeat. Regret? Using food or grocery delivery apps is great. It really is. Sure, there’s a fee, but when you can’t bring yourself to leave the house, it’s a nice treat to get what you want delivered. As a result, adoption of food apps has been incredibly fast and they are now a...

Cloud Audit: Compliance + Automation

Setting your own standard Today’s regulatory environment is incredibly fractured and extensive. Depending on the industry—and the part of the world your business and/or security organization resides in—you may be subject to several regulatory compliance standards. Adding to the complexity, there ...

Rapid7 Integration For AWS Verified Access

Today at re:invent, Amazon Web Services AWS unveiled its new AWS Verified Access service, and we are thrilled to announce that InsightIDR — Rapid7’s next-gen SIEM and XDR — will support log ingestion from this new service when it is made generally available. What Is AWS Verified Access? AWS...

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...

Culture Fitness

Have you checked in on the overall health of your team lately? What would a new hire think of your current team? Companies all over the world – particularly those of the higher-profile variety – tout their positive cultures and how great it is to be part of the team. This is especially true in th...

Common questions when evolving your VM program

Authored by Natalie Hurd Perhaps your organization is in the beginning stages of planning a digital transformation, and it’s time to start considering how the security team will adapt. Or maybe your digital transformation is well underway, and the security team is struggling to keep up with the...

A SIEM With a Pen Tester's Eye: How Offensive Security Helps Shape InsightIDR

To be great at something, you have to be a little obsessed. That's true whether you want to be a chess grandmaster, become an internationally recognized CEO, or build the best cybersecurity platform on the planet. At Rapid7, our laser-focus has always been trained on one thing: helping digital...

The Intelligent Listing: Cybersecurity Job Descriptions That Deliver

Modern job descriptions have quite the reputation for causing reactionary eye-rolling. Why? Because what used to be a couple of paragraphs – about requirements and experience for performing a cybersecurity analyst job – is actually now filled with a laundry list of criteria that make candidates...

Real-Time Risk Mitigation in Google Cloud Platform

With Google Cloud Next happening this week, there’s been some recent water cooler talk - okay, informal, ad hoc Zoom calls - where discussions about what makes Google Cloud Platform GCP unique when it comes to security. A few specific differences have popped up here and there default data...

One Year After IntSights Acquisition, Threat Intel’s Value Is Clear

Rapid7 Strengthens Market Position With 360-Degree XDR and Best-in-Class Threat Intelligence Offerings Time flies… and provides opportunities to establish proof points. After recently passing the one-year milestone of Rapid7’s acquisition of IntSights, the added value threat intelligence brings t...

3 Mistakes Companies Make in Their Detection and Response Programs

The goal of a detection and response D&R program is to act as quickly as possible to identify and remove threats while minimizing any fallout. Many organizations have identified the need for D&R as a critical piece of their security program, but it's often the hardest — and most costly — piece to...

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...

[VIDEO] An Inside Look at AWS re:Inforce 2022 From the Rapid7 Team

!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at AWS re:Inforce 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/07/aws-experience-video.jpg The summer of conferences rolls on for the cybersecurity and tech community — and for us, the excitement of being able to gather in person after two-plus year...

ISO 27002 Emphasizes Need For Threat Intelligence

With employees reluctant to return to the office following the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of a well-defined network perimeter has become a thing of the past for many organizations. Attack surfaces continue to expand, and as a result, threat intelligence has taken on even greater importance...

Rapid7 MDR Reduced Breaches by 90% via Greater Efficiency to Detect, Investigate, Respond to, and Remediate Breaches

When a security operations center SOC is operating at a deficit, they increase the possibility of beach reductions. That is, the likelihood they won’t be able to travel to any beaches – or any vacation destinations whatsoever – anytime in the near future. That can lead to burnout, which can lead ...

[Security Nation] Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligence

!\Security Nation\ Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Steve Micallef about SpiderFoot, the open-source intelligence tool of which he is the creato...

How to Secure App Development in the Cloud, With Tips From Gartner

Building applications in the cloud has been great for development speed and scalability, but it can sometimes feel more like a sustained migraine for security teams. How do you keep your cloud applications safe without resorting to a dizzying patchwork of overlapping tools and dispersed services?...

Evaluating the Security of an Enterprise IoT Deployment at Domino's Pizza

Recently, I had a great opportunity to work with Domino's Pizza to evaluate an internally conceived Internet of Things IoT-based business solution they had designed and deployed throughout their US store locations. The goal of this research project was to understand the security implications arou...

DFIR Without Limits: Moving Beyond the “Sucker's Choice” of Today’s Breach Response Services

Three-quarters of CEOs and their boards believe a major breach is “inevitable.” And those closest to the action? Like CISOs? They’re nearly unanimous. Gartner is right there, too. Their 2021 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response DFIR Services recommends you “operate under the...

Unsung Security Superheroes: You’re Now Sung

Get your copy of Rapid7’s first comic: XDR vs. Exploito. Available now! We’re all more connected than ever, and security practitioners keep everyone – governments, organizations, businesses, and 4.95 billion people – as safe as they can be. “XDR vs Exploito” isn’t “Dr. Strange and the Multiverse ...

[Security Nation] Whitney Merrill on the Crypto & Privacy Village (and the Latest in Data Privacy)

!\Security Nation\ Whitney Merrill on the Crypto & Privacy Village \and the Latest in Data Privacy\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/04/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Whitney Merrill, Data Protection Officer at Asana, about her work on...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q1 2022 in Review

Introducing new InsightIDR capabilities to accelerate your detection and response program When we talk to customers and security professionals about what they need more of in their security operations center SOC, there is one consistent theme: time. InsightIDR — Rapid7's leading cloud SIEM and XD...