Executive Webinar: Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk, Part Three

In the final installment of our webinar “Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk,” Jason Hart, Rapid7’s Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, discusses how adopting a cyber target operating model can eliminate cybersecurity silos and increase the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program. If...

Practice Operations Manager Looks Back On First Five Months With Rapid7

Elianna Sfez is a Threat Intelligence Practice Operations Manager based in Rapid7’s Tel Aviv office. As she approaches her six month anniversary with the company, we sat down to chat about her new hire journey, initial impressions and experiences in her new role, Rapid7 culture, and more. Tell me...

[The Lost Bots] S03E01: Tech Stack Consolidation and Bacon

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E01: Tech Stack Consolidation and Baconhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/03/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png It’s 2023, and according to Gartner, ESG, and everybody else, the vendor consolidation trend continues. Throwing tools at the problem isn’t working well, and...

A Customer Success Manager’s Journey to Cybersecurity

Originally planning to pursue a career in sports journalism, Blake Walters joined Rapid7 ready to roll up his sleeves and learn about an entirely new field—cybersecurity. Walters always had an interest in computer engineering. However, he craved the ability to connect with people and build...

Spoiler Alert: Your Favorite Content Might Not Be Secure

Securing intellectual property in the age of consolidation Rapid7, of course, is not in the entertainment industry. However, we have worked with some clients out there in that golden land of dreams and enchantment—also known as Hollywood. Case in point: the company formerly known as Discovery, In...

Can Cloud Security Be Easier Than Complex?

A bigger piece of the meal For those in the United States and certain parts of the world, it’s time for end-of-year holidays. That means lots and lots of big meals to celebrate these special occasions. Each dish created becomes part of that larger meal. Another important event that occurs around...

Unifying Threat Findings to Elevate Your Runtime Cloud Security

The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. However, the speed of those changes, combined with the drastically increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environment...

How to Deploy a SIEM That Actually Works

I deployed my SIEM in days, not months – here’s how you can too As an IT administrator at a highly digitized manufacturing company, I spent many sleepless nights with no visibility into the activity and security of our environment before deploying a security information and event management SIEM...

Navigating the Evolving Patchwork of Incident Reporting Requirements

In March 2022, President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act CIRCIA, a bipartisan initiative that empowers CISA to require cyber incident reporting from critical infrastructure owners and operators. Rapid7 is supportive of CIRCIA and cyber incident...

5 SOAR Myths Debunked

A recently published ESG research ebook, sponsored by Rapid7, SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, shows that organizations are increasingly leveraging security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR systems in an attempt to keep up with their security operations challenges. This makes...

Simplify SIEM Optimization With InsightIDR

Two key ways InsightIDR helps customers tailor reporting, detection, and response — without any headaches For far too many years, security teams have accepted that with a SIEM comes compromise. You could have highly tailored and custom rule sets, but it meant endless amounts of tuning and...

The Forecast Is Flipped: Flipping L&D to Ensure Continuous Growth

At Rapid7, we staunchly believe that our people are central to upholding our mission and embodying our core values to ultimately drive our customers into a more secure future. For this reason, Rapid7 works tediously to ensure that our Moose have ample opportunities to learn and grow in their...

3 Key Challenges for Cloud Identity and Access Management

Identity and access management IAM is one of the most critical tools for today's cloud-centric environment. Businesses' IT architectures have become more highly distributed than ever, and users need to access a growing suite of cloud services on demand. Determining the identities of users and...

How to Build and Enable a Cyber Target Operating Model

Cybersecurity is complex and ever-changing. Organisations should be able to evaluate their capabilities and identify areas where improvement is needed. In the webinar “Foundational Components to Enable a Cyber Target Operating Model,” – part two of our Cybersecurity Series – Jason Hart, Chief...

Cloud Complexity Requires a Unified Approach to Assessing Risk

There has been an unprecedented acceleration in the shift to the cloud as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey experts estimate companies have moved to the cloud “24 times faster ... than they thought” over the past two years. As organizations move quickly to scale, drive innovation, and...

[The Lost Bots] Season 2, Episode 1: SIEM Deployment in 10 Minutes

!\The Lost Bots\ Season 2, Episode 1: SIEM Deployment in 10 Minuteshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In the first installment of Season 2, Rapid7 Detection and Response D&R Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner and his new co-hos...

For Ransomware Double-Extorters, It's All About the Benjamins — and Data From Healthcare and Pharma

Welcome to the second installment in our series looking at the latest ransomware research from Rapid7. Two weeks ago, we launched "Pain Points: Ransomware Data Disclosure Trends", our first-of-its-kind look into the practice of double extortion, what kinds of data get disclosed, and how the...

Rapid7 MDR Delivered 549% ROI via Headcount Avoidance, Time Savings, and Breach Risk Reduction

In-house security organizations these days are operating at an extreme deficit. Skeleton crews are running entire security operations centers SOCs. A constant barrage of alerts is making it difficult for these teams to detect and investigate every alert and stay ahead of today’s evolving threats...

New Report Shows What Data Is Most at Risk to (and Prized by) Ransomware Attackers

Ransomware is one of the most pressing and diabolical threats faced by cybersecurity teams today. Gaining access to a network and holding that data for ransom has caused billions in losses across nearly every industry and around the world. It has stopped critical infrastructure like healthcare...

The Forecast Is Flipped: Flipping L&D in New Hire Training

Rapid7’s onboarding program, Making the Band, first came to the stage in the fall of 2017 when the original 2-week, video-based program evolved into a dynamic 90-day experience. The updated program delivered learnings to new hires through digital self-paced content and a 2-day live training focus...

Demystifying XDR: How Curated Detections Filter Out the Noise

Extended detection and response XDR is, by nature, a forward-looking technology. By adding automation to human insight, XDR rethinks and redefines the work that has been traditionally ascribed to security information and event management SIEM and other well-defined, widely used tools within...

The Big Target on Cyber Insurers' Backs

Here at IntSights, a Rapid7 company, our goal is to equip organizations around the world with an understanding of the threats facing them in today's cyber threat landscape. Most recently, we took a focused look at the insurance industry — a highly targeted vertical due to the amount of personally...

Why Security in Kubernetes Isn't the Same as in Linux: Part 2

Security for Kubernetes might not be quite the same as what you're used to. In our previous article, we covered why security is so important in both Linux on-premises servers and cloud Kubernetes clusters. We also talked about 3 major aspects of Linux server security — processes, network, and fil...

Is the Internet of Things the Next Ransomware Target?

Ransomware attacks over the last couple years have been traumatic, impacting nearly every business sector and costing billions of dollars. The targets have mostly been our data: steal it, encrypt it, and then charge us a fee to get it back. Over the last several years, there's been concern across...

Automation Enables Innovation in the Cloud

As public cloud adoption continues to grow year after year, we see more and more enterprises realizing the strategic advantage the cloud can provide to help deliver new and innovative products quicker, roll out new features with ease, and reach new customers. But along with those advantages comes...

[Security Nation] Jill Fraser and Deborah Blyth on Securing Colorado

!\Security Nation\ Jill Fraser and Deborah Blyth on Securing Coloradohttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we chat with Deborah Blyth, CISO of the State of Colorado, and Jill Fraser, CISO for Jefferson County, Colorado. They...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of rsync

Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...

This One Time on a Pen Test: Ain’t No Fence High Enough

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. Read...

CVE-2026-19490: Critical Vulnerability Affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

Overview On August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated...

Patch Tuesday - August 2026

Microsoft is publishing 421 vulnerabilities on August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 236 vulnerabilities in Windows. This is lower volume than last month’s record-breaking behemoth, but still one of the largest Patch Tuesday totals ever. There is no reason to suppose that Patch Tuesday will ever...

CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Modules for Audiobookshelf, LiteLLM, Next.js, Dalfox and more

Help shape the future of Metasploit Framework We are planning future work in relation to the evasion capabilities present in Metasploit Framework, and how they function/are presented to users. We are currently accepting responses to our feedback form, which means that you can shape the future of...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/15/2026

Weaponizing a text editor for fun and profit Gather round, dear readers, because today, we by we, we mean @h00die dropped the ultimate persistence mechanism: Vim plugin persistence. And honestly, calling it "persistence" feels redundant — Vim is already the most persistent thing ever. Somewhere,...

Rapid7 Completes BSI C5 Type 2 Examination: Stronger Cloud Security for DACH Organizations

If you're a security leader operating in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, you already know that compliance isn't a checkbox. It's a competitive differentiator. Rapid7 has completed BSI C5 Type 2 attestation for the Rapid7 Command Platform, including Threat Command, and it's a milestone worth...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/13/2026

No bad luck here: Friday the 13th brings new modules and a Metasploit Pro milestone This week’s Metasploit Framework release delivers three new modules across reconnaissance, evasion, and exploitation: LeakIX-powered discovery for exposed services and leaked data, a Linux x64 RC4 payload packer f...

Rapid7 Analysis: CVE-2026-20127

CVE-2026-20127: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Authentication Bypass Overview On 25th February 2026, Cisco published an advisory for CVE-2026-20127, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the vdaemon service of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN formerly Viptela. The flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote...

CVE-2026-2329: Critical Unauthenticated Stack Buffer Overflow in Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against the Grandstream GXP1600 series of Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP phones. This research resulted in the discovery of a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, CVE-2026-2329. A remote attacker can...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/19/2025

React2Shell Payload Improvements Last week Metasploit released an exploit for the React2Shell vulnerability, and this week we have made a couple of improvements to the payloads that it uses. The first improvement affects all Metasploit modules. When an exploit is used, an initial payload is...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 08/08/25

New module content 4 ICTBroadcast Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Author: Valentin Lobstein Type: Exploit Pull request: 20446 contributed by Chocapikk Path: linux/http/ictbroadcastunauthcookie AttackerKB reference: CVE-2025-2611 Description: This adds a new module for CVE-2025-2611 -...

Patch Tuesday - July 2025

Microsoft is addressing 137 vulnerabilities this July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is above average. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and Microsoft isn’t aware of in-the-wild exploitation for any of today’s batch. This is the tenth...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 07/11/2025

Active Directory LDAP Library This week Metasploit added a library for working with Active Directory Domain Controllers over LDAP. The library consolidates common functionality and implements a caching mechanism to support common operations such as looking up objects by their DN, sAMAccountName, ...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/02/2025

Meterpreter Extended API Clipboard Monitoring Security is hard, and Open Source Security is a collaborative effort. This week, Metasploit released a fix for a vulnerability that was privately disclosed to us by long-time community member bcoles. The vulnerability in question impacted Metasploit...

Rapid7 Extends AWS Support to Include Coverage for Newly-Launched Resource Control Policies (RCPs)

In today’s cloud-first world, security and innovation go hand-in-hand. Rapid7 is excited to announce our support for Amazon Web Services’ AWS new Resource Control Policies RCPs, a powerful tool designed to bolster security controls for organizations using AWS infrastructure. As a launch partner f...

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...

Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery

Over the past two blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series and The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy in our series on Attack Surface Management, we’ve focused on the drivers and core elements of an Attack Surface Management solution. I...

Proactively Securing Cloud Workloads in the CI/CD Pipeline with Rapid7 and Azure DevOps

As organizations continue to embrace cloud-native development practices, the need for integrated security solutions that seamlessly fit into existing DevOps environments has become more pressing than ever. We recognize this critical need and have added new integration for InsightCloudSec ICS and...

Expanding the Security Horizon: Introducing Rapid7 MDR for the Extended Ecosystem

As the cybersecurity landscape gets more complex, the stakes for keeping organizations safe have never been higher. Security teams are tasked with keeping ahead of new ransomware groups, rapidly evolving adversary tactics, and their dynamic attack surface as their business grows. Security...

Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Enhancing Cybersecurity Culture

Building a resilient cybersecurity culture is crucial in today's digital landscape. The recent Rapid7 Take Command Summit session titled "Commander in Chief: Enhancing Cybersecurity Culture" offered valuable insights into fostering a strong security mindset within organizations. Here are three ke...

From Top Dogs to Unified Pack

Embracing a consolidated security ecosystem Cybersecurity is as unpredictable as it is rewarding. Each day often presents a new set of challenges and responsibilities, particularly as organizations accelerate digital transformation efforts. This means you and your cyber team may find yourselves...