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2023 Cybersecurity Industry Predictions
With 2022 rapidly coming to a close, this is the time of year where it makes sense to take a step back and look at the year in cybersecurity, and make a few critical predictions for what the industry could face in the year ahead. In order to give the security community some insight into where we’...
About Anomalous Data Transfer detection in InsightIDR
By Shivangi Pandey Shivangi is a Senior Product Manager for D&R at Rapid7. Data exfiltration is an unauthorized movement or transfer of data occurring on an organization’s network. This can occur when a malicious actor gains access to a corporation’s network with the intention of stealing or...
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...
Adapting existing VM programs to regain control
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The scale, speed and complexity of cloud environments — particularly when you introduce containers and microservices — has made the lives of security professionals immensely harder. While it may seem trite, the reason we keep hearing this refrain is because,...
Addressing the Evolving Attack Surface Part 1: Modern Challenges
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot from our customers requesting help on how to manage their evolving attack surface. As new 0days appear, new applications are spun up, and cloud instances change hourly, it can be hard for our customers to get a full view of risk into their environments. We put...
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...
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...
3 Ways to Improve Data Protection in the Cloud
Cloud complexity is now a well-documented and widely felt phenomenon across technology teams — IT, development, and security alike. Multi-cloud architectures have become the norm, with 89% of organizations embracing a strategy that involves multiple cloud vendors. Not only are companies managing...
Incident Reporting Regulations Summary and Chart
A growing number of regulations require organizations to report significant cybersecurity incidents. We've created a chart that summarizes 11 proposed and current cyber incident reporting regulations and breaks down their common elements, such as who must report, what cyber incidents must be...
[VIDEO] An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Team
!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/black-hat-vlog.jpg Of all the cybersecurity conferences that fill up our summertime schedules, Hacker Summer Camp — the weeklong series of security events in Las Vegas that includes BSides...
Deploying a SOAR Tool Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: I’ve Done It Twice
As the senior information security engineer at Brooks, an international running shoe and apparel company, I can appreciate the challenge of launching a security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR tool for the first time. I’ve done it at two different companies, so I’ll share some lesson...
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...
[VIDEO] An Inside Look at the RSA 2022 Experience From the Rapid7 Team
!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at the RSA 2022 Experience From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/RSAC-2022-experience.jpg The two years since the last RSA Conference have been pretty uneventful. Sure, COVID-19 sent us all to work from home for a little while, but it's not as...
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...
8 Tips for Securing Networks When Time Is Scarce
"At this particular mobile army hospital, we're not concerned with the ultimate reconstruction of the patient. We only care about getting the kid out of here alive enough for someone else to put on the fine touches. We work fast and we're not dainty, because a lot of these kids who can stand 2...
[Security Nation] Bob Lord on Securing the DNC
!\Security Nation\ Bob Lord on Securing the DNChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/03/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Bob Lord, recently the Chief Security Officer for the Democratic National Committee, about the unique challenges of...
The Future of Finserv Security: Cloud Expert and Former CISO Anthony Johnson Weighs In
In today's increasingly mobile, fast-paced world, it's no surprise that financial services finserv organizations have a massive bullseye on their backs. The amount of personal data they access daily makes them an attractive target for those with malicious intent. In fact, the average cost of a da...
Why Security in Kubernetes Isn't the Same as in Linux: Part 1
Kubernetes was first presented in 2014, and it almost entirely changed the way technological and even non-tech companies use infrastructure for running their applications. The Kubernetes platform still feels new and exciting — it has awesome features and can fit most use cases. But hackers find t...
The Ransomware Killchain: How It Works, and How to Protect Your Systems
Much ado has been made by this very author on this very blog! about the incentives for attackers and defenders around ransomware. There is also a wealth of information on the internet about how to protect yourself from ransomware. One thing we want to avoid losing sight of, however, is just how w...
CVE-2026-21589: Critical unauthenticated arbitrary file access in Atlassian products
Overview On October 5, 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight products: Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crow...
CVE-2026-63520: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (FIXED)
Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...
Patch Tuesday - July 2026
Microsoft is publishing 622 vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for two of the vulnerabilities published today, both of which are listed on CISA KEV, as well as public disclosure for on...
CVE-2026-0265: Authentication Bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Overview On May 13, 2026, Palo Alto Networks published a security advisory for CVE-2026-0265, a signature verification vulnerability that facilitates authentication bypass on PAN-OS, the operating system that most Palo Alto Networks firewalls run. This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticate...
Critical Buffer Overflow in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal (CVE-2026-0300)
Overview On May 6, 2026, Palo Alto Networks published a security advisory for CVE-2026-0300, a critical unauthenticated buffer overflow vulnerability affecting PAN-OS PA-Series and VM-Series firewall appliances. Prisma Access, Cloud NGFW, and Panorama appliances are not affected by this...
Vulnerability Found in InsightVM & Nexpose: CVE-2026-1814 (FIXED)
We are grateful to the research team at Atredis for sharing their findings around a vulnerability CVE-2026-1814 impacting our vulnerability management offerings InsightVM and Nexpose. We have identified a fix that addresses this vulnerability and will be delivered via a Security Console product...
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...
Patch Tuesday - November 2025
Microsoft is publishing 66 new vulnerabilities today, which is far fewer than we’ve come to expect in recent months. There’s a lone exploited-in-the-wild zero-day vulnerability, which Microsoft assesses as critical severity, although there’s apparently no public disclosure yet. Three critical...
Independent Results Confirm Rapid7’s NGAV Delivers Strong, Reliable Protection
At Rapid7, we measure success by how well we protect our customers in the real world. That’s why independent testing like the AV-Comparatives Business Security Test matters. It’s a trusted benchmark for how endpoint security products perform against today’s constantly evolving threats, and how th...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 09/26/2025
New module content 2 Cron Persistence Author: h00die [email protected] Type: Exploit Pull request: 20508 contributed by h00die Path: multi/persistence/cron Description: Update cron persistence to use the new mixin. FreePBX ajax.php authenticated SQLi to RCE Authors: EchoSlow, Piotr...
CVE-2025-10035 - Critical unauthenticated RCE in GoAnywhere MFT
Overview On September 18, 2025, Fortra published an advisory for CVE-2025-10035. This new vulnerability affects GoAnywhere MFT, an enterprise managed file transfer solution, and allows an attacker to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. GoAnywhere MFT is a file transfer solution that ha...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/15/2025
Don’t forget to take the Metasploit User Engagement Survey! We had an awesome time at DEF CON and Black Hat with our very own zeroSteiner and jheysel-r7 presenting on five different occasions! We announced our user engagement survey there, and would love for all of you to participate until the en...
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...
India's Cyber Leaders Prepare for AI-Driven Threats
As India's economy rapidly digitizes, cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly complex. This May, Rapid7 launched our inaugural Global Security Day series across India, bringing together top security leaders in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru to address the most pressing cyber threats faci...
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...
THE NEW Rapid7 MDR for Enterprise: Tailored Detection and Response for Complex Environments
Complex ecosystems. Custom applications. Specialized log sources. Distributed operations. Enterprise security leaders aren’t just defending against threats—they’re navigating a fragmented environment where visibility, coverage, and coordination are constant challenges. Our MDR service provides...
Seeing is Securing: MDR VALUE at-a-glance with the Detection and Response Dashboard
Transparency is core to Managed Detection & Response MDR. It’s necessary between Rapid7 and our customers as we conduct security operations on their behalf. And it’s necessary for our customers to communicate transparently and effectively with their stakeholders. Scroll on – because there’s a new...
Mind the Gap: How Surface Command Tackles Asset Visibility in Attack Surface Management
“Only 17% of organizations can clearly identify and inventory a majority 95% or more of their assets.” - Gartner Imagine the scenario: your organization has been exposed to a new zero-day vulnerability. You are responsible for Threat & Vulnerability Management TVM, you have asked your IT departme...
Test Driving a New Benefit Programme in Belfast
When most people think about benefits packages at work, what typically comes to mind are things like healthcare programmes, financial stipends, or wellbeing incentives. For Stephen, one benefit he uses on a daily basis comes on four wheels. Rapid7’s electric vehicle scheme was rolled out in late...
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...
Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series
Part 1: Overview of the Problem ASM Solves and a High-Level Description of ASM and Its Components Welcome to the first installment of our multipart series,"Help! I Can’t See! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series." In this series, we will explore the critical challenges and solutions...
Selling Ransomware Breaches: 4 Trends Spotted on the RAMP Forum
The sale and purchase of unauthorized access to compromised enterprise networks has become a linchpin for cybercriminal operations, particularly in facilitating ransomware attacks. Underground forums are sharing guidelines on breaching networks and selling the access they obtain, leaving the...
Living our Values and Leveraging Diverse Skill Sets: How Jonathan Atwood Built a Successful Career as a Customer Advisor at Rapid7
At Rapid7, our Customer Advisors play a pivotal role at ensuring our customers understand their threat landscape – and feel confident in their security programs. By collaborating across various internal teams, strengthening customer relationships, and proactively seeking solutions and advocating...
Rapid7 Takes Next Step in AI Innovation with New AI-Powered Threat Detections
Digital transformation has created immense opportunity to generate new revenue streams, better engage with customers and drive operational efficiency. A decades-long transition to cloud as the de-facto delivery model of choice has delivered undeniable value to the business landscape. But any chan...
PenTales: What It’s Like on the Red Team
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 sharing some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight som...
Alerting Rules!: InsightIDR Raises the Bar for Visibility and Coverage
By George Schneider, Information Security Manager at Listrak I've worked in cybersecurity for over two decades, so I've seen plenty of platforms come and go—some even crash and burn. But Rapid7, specifically InsightIDR, has consistently performed above expectations. In fact, InsightIDR has become...
Rapid7 Sales Director Devin Poulter On Building a Career as an Account Executive
Devin Poulter is a Sales Director with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Recently, we asked him a few questions to learn more about how he built his career, what it’s like to lead a team at Rapid7, and more. You’ve been in software sales for most of your career, what can you tell ...
Three Takeaways from the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services
Not all MDR services are created equal, and in order for organizations to find the right partner for their managed detection and response needs, Gartner® has published a Market Guide report offering key insights for businesses of all sizes. At Rapid7, we are proud to offer this complimentary repo...
7 Rapid Questions: Lindsey Searle
Welcome back to 7 Rapid Questions, our blog series where we ask passionate leaders at Rapid7 to give us an inside look at what it’s like to work on their team, and how they’re creating an impact every day. In this installment, we talk to Lindsey Searle, Senior Manager, Customer Advisors on how he...
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...
Year in Review: Rapid7 Threat Intelligence
In an evolving threat landscape, non-stop alerts and more IOC feeds don’t guarantee better protection. Security teams are overwhelmed and struggle to identify relevant threat information. Thankfully, Threat Command delivers highly contextual alerts and integration across your environment to help...