Building our Team in Prague: Meet Martin Votruba

From developing driver-assistance software for a luxury car brand to jumping on board an NFT startup, Martin Votruba, Lead Software Engineer, is not one to shy away from a challenge. In September of 2023, joined Rapid7 as the first hire in its new Prague office. Martin is leveraging Rapid7’s...

PenTales: “User enumeration is not a vulnerability” – I beg to differ

At Rapid7 we love a good pentest 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 highlig...

VeloCON 2023: Submissions Wanted!

Rapid7 is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual VeloCON virtual summit will be held this September date TBD, with times oriented to the continental USA time zones. Once again, the conference will be online and completely free! VeloCON is a one-day event focused on the Velociraptor community...

Casting a Light on Shadow IT in Cloud Environments

What is Shadow IT? The term “Shadow IT” refers to the use of systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT approval. This typically occurs when employees adopt consumer products to increase productivity or just make their lives easier. This type of Shadow IT can be...

MITRE ATT&CK® Mitigations: Thwarting Cloud Threats With Preventative Policies and Controls

As IT infrastructure has become more and more sophisticated, so too have the techniques and tactics used by bad actors to gain access to your environment and sensitive information. That’s why it's essential to implement robust security measures to protect your organization. One way to do this is ...

XDR, the Beatles, and Blunt Instruments

Sometimes tools are blunt because there’s nothing else. Regarding economic controls for example, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said: “We have essentially interest rates, the balance sheet and forward guidance. They are famously blunt tools, they are not capable of surgical precision." Others are blunt...

Hallmark Channel: Securing the Season

How Crown Media protects its crown jewel It’s that time of year again…chestnuts roasting on an open-fire, kids making wish-lists, and company holiday parties where you can showcase your most outlandish ugly sweater. It’s also the time of year we all get a little bit less cynical and take in a...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Top Place to Work for 11th Consecutive Year

On November 30th, 2022, Rapid7 was again recognized by The Boston Globe as a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts. This marks the 11th consecutive year Rapid7 has made the list, this time coming in at 3 in the large company category. Top Places to Work rankings are based on a Globe survey that...

Rapid7 Takes Home 2 Awards and a Highly Commended Recognition at the 2022 Belfast Telegraph IT Awards

Rapid7 was honored at the Belfast Telegraph's annual IT Awards, Friday, taking home a pair of awards including the coveted “Best Place to Work in IT” in the large company category award, and the “Cyber Security Project of the Year” award, for groundbreaking machine learning research in applicatio...

[The Lost Bots] S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadrant

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadranthttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png In this episode, we discuss the best use of market research reports, like Magic Quadrants and Waves. If you're in the market for a new cybersecurity solution, d...

6 Reasons Managed Detection and Response Is Hitting Its Stride

Cyber threats have risen to the 1 concern of CEOs, which means security teams — in the hot seat for years — are really feeling it now. Files and data live in the cloud. Work is hybrid or remote. There’s turmoil around the world. Cyberattacks are not just a distant boogieman – they’re here and...

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 Enables Managers to Be Impact Multipliers

At Rapid7, we recognize that managers are at the heart of our mission and are central to optimizing the potential of our people. So naturally, focusing on the growth and development of our manager population became critical to productivity, engagement, retention, and creating strong teams, as wel...

Cloud Security and Compliance: The Ultimate Frenemies of Financial Services

Meeting compliance standards as a financial services finserv company can be incredibly time-consuming and expensive. Finserv has some of the highest regulatory bars to clear out of any industry — with the exception, perhaps, of healthcare. That said, these regulations exist for good reason. Even...

A Quick Look at CES 2022

The first thing I noticed about CES this year was COVID’s impact on the event, which was more than just attendance size. A large amount of the technology focused on sanitation, everything from using light to sanitize surfaces on point-of-sale systems to hand-washing stations. When I attend events...

Better Together: XDR, SOAR, Vulnerability Management, and External Threat Intelligence

One of the biggest challenges with both incident response and vulnerability management is not just the raw number of incidents and vulnerabilities organizations need to triage and manage, but the fact that it's often difficult to separate the critical incidents and vulnerabilities from the minor...

2022 Planning: Straight Talk on Zero Trust

“Zero trust" is increasingly being heralded as the ultimate solution for organizational cyber safety and resilience — but what does it really mean, and how can you assess if it has a practical place in your organization's cybersecurity strategy for 2022? In this post, we'll answer those questions...

Top Security Trends Driving Threat Detection and Response Priorities Today

The threat landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, and organizations need security solutions that can keep up. A modern SaaS SIEM is built in the cloud, provides extended coverage across diverse data sources, and leverages automation to expedite response and containment, making it a great to...

[Podcast] How Entrepreneur Christian Wentz Takes On Identity Authentication and Data Integrity One Line of Code at a Time

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Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/30/2026

FreeBPX Content Galore This week brings 3 new pieces of module content for targeting FreePBX. All three chain multiple vulnerabilities together, starting with CVE-2025-66039. This initial vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to bypass the authentication process to interact with FreePBX. Fro...

When AI Accelerates Cloud Migrations, Don't Let Security Be an Afterthought

The era of on-premises infrastructure is quickly becoming a thing of the past, with research from Pluralsight showing that over 90% of organizations now leverage the cloud. What’s driving the even faster shift over the last few years? Consider AWS's foray into generative AI programs and agents fo...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/24/2025

Let us suggest persistence… This week's edition brings the new persistence suggester from h00die. Similar to the exploit variant, this module will list the available persistence mechanisms for your selected target. The module requires a session to target the machine, so it can run check methods...

Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Exploitation: What Public Sector Leaders Should Know

The Rapid7 September 2025 Threat Report highlights active exploitation of a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, CVE-2025-53770. This zero-day attack is being used by threat actors to gain initial access to victim networks, with exploitation observed in government as well as multiple othe...

Patch Tuesday - September 2025

Microsoft is addressing 176 vulnerabilities today, which seems like a lot, and it is. Curiously, Microsoft’s own Security Update Guide SUG for September 2025 Patch Tuesday only lists 86 vulns, and that’s because the SUG doesn’t include a large number of open source software OSS fixes published...

CVE-2025-54309: CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On Friday, July 18, 2025, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54309, affecting versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.423 across all platforms. According to the public-facing vendor advisory, this...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/17/2025

New Modules & Adapters, and Improvements! This week’s release brings new modules, additional adapter payloads and improvements to existing modules and features. These modules target software such as ThinManager, Remote for Mac, Roundcube and more. It also includes additional work from bcoles that...

From .pth to p0wned: Abuse of Pickle Files in AI Model Supply Chains

Executive summary Recent threat research highlights a growing risk in the Python and machine learning ML ecosystem: the exploitation of serialized model files, specifically those using Python’s pickle module. While commonly used for saving and loading ML models, pickle files can execute arbitrary...

Cultivating Growth and Development at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we’re pushing the boundaries on what a cybersecurity company can be as we work to build a more secure digital future. In a field where the threat landscape continues to evolve, continuous learning and the development of our people becomes an engine for company success and innovation...

AI and Resilience Take the Spotlight in 2025: Key Trends from Gartner® Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity has never stood still — but in 2025, it’s not just evolving. It’s transforming. Cybersecurity has entered a pivotal new phase. According to Gartner®, Top Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025 , “Security and risk management SRM leaders must enable business value and double down on...

Preview the Action: Two New Sessions Available Before Take Command 2025

Take Command 2025 is packed with insights from cybersecurity experts, threat intelligence leaders, and hands-on practitioners. But you don’t have to wait until April 9 to start learning. Two exclusive sessions are now available on-demand — giving you early access to critical content designed to...

Unpacking a post-compromise breach simulation with Vector Command

The reality of modern cyber threats In today’s evolving cyber landscape, breaches are not a matter of if , but when. Attackers continue to refine their techniques, using stealthy post-compromise tactics to maintain persistence, escalate privileges, and move laterally across networks. The key to...

Fresh Faces Join the Take Command 2025 Lineup

Take Command 2025 is bringing together some of the sharpest minds in cybersecurity to tackle today’s most urgent challenges. From attacker methodologies and AI-driven security to MDR, red teaming, and exposure management, this year’s virtual event will provide security professionals with practica...

Unlocking MSSP Success: Why CTEM is Critical

Co-authored by Thomas Green and Sid Nanda What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM? Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM is a five-stage, continuous security program introduced by Gartner in 2022. It proactively assesses an organization’s exposure across networks, systems, cloud...

Seeing The Whole Picture: A Better Way To Manage Your Attack Surface

Do you trust your view of your organization’s risk? With cloud adoption, remote work, shadow IT, and AI, security teams face an overwhelming challenge: scoping their attack surface and continuously discovering all assets and exposures before threats emerge. This aligns with the critical first ste...

Building a High Performance Team in India: Meet Swami Nathan

Swami Nathan has a track record of building new teams from scratch for global companies. Through his experiences, he’s identified what it takes to build not just any team - but a high performing team that drives innovation and growth for business while propelling career trajectories for those who...

Command Platform Innovations Eliminate Data Blind Spots Through Complete Visibility and Context-Driven Risk Prioritization

Rapid7 provides unmatched attack surface visibility through the Command Platform, helping security teams identify, prioritize, and remediate risk across hybrid environments. Surface Command is the only solution available that combines native external and internal scanning into a single unified vi...

Take Command | Rapid7’s 2025 Cybersecurity Summit: Own Your Attack Surface on April 9

Save the date:April 9, 2025 Take Command is back. After a hugely successful event last year, Rapid7’s cybersecurity summit returns with another stellar lineup to equip security teams with the latest threat intelligence, expert insights, and real-world strategies to take control of an evolving...

The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year

The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...

Why Cybercriminals Are Not Necessarily Embracing AI

As published in HackerNoon and featured as a “Top 20 Best Read Article” for AI. Introduction The rapid advancement of AI has offered powerful tools for malware detection, but it has also introduced new avenues for adversarial attacks. As an example, recently OpenAI reported threat actors abusing...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

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...

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...

The Growing Importance of Exposure Management: Our Key Insights from Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024 was published in late July, and is an interesting look at the dynamic nature of both the threat landscape and the diverse range of technologies that security & risk management SRM professionals use to safeguard their organizations...

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...

5 Key Insights from the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, organizations face the growing challenge of securing their cloud-native applications. We feel the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP provides invaluable insights into the latest trends and technologies that...

Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Command Your Cloud

The Cloud security landscape is constantly changing. During the "Command Your Cloud" session at the Rapid7 Take Command Summit, industry experts Ryan Blanchard, Jeffrey Gardner and Devin Krugly shared vital strategies for staying ahead of that constant change. Effective cloud security requires a...

Unveiling Key Insights from the 2024 Take Command Summit

The 2024 Take Command Summit, held virtually in partnership with AWS, united over 2,000 security professionals to delve into critical cybersecurity issues. Our infographic captures the essence of the summit, showcasing expert insights from 10 sessions on topics like new attack intelligence, AI...

Rapid7 Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

Command Your Attack Surface with a next-gen SIEM built for the Cloud First Era Rapid7 is excited to share that we are named a Challenger for InsightIDR in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. In a crowded and constantly changing space, this is our sixth time to be recognized in the report...

Lessons from video game companies: automation unleashes robust monitoring & observability

Video game organizations need robust monitoring and observability solutions to stay one step ahead of cyber adversaries. Chances are, so do we all. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how monitoring and observability capabilities enable video game organizations to bolster their cybersecurity...

Method to an Old Consultant's Madness with Site Design

If it's your first time purchasing and setting up InsightVM – or if you are a seasoned veteran – I highly recommend a ‘less is more’ strategy with site design. After many thousands of health checks performed by security consultants for InsightVM customers, the biggest challenge most consultants...