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7 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test, Halloween Edition: An Ode to Our Favorite Pen Tester Disguises

In honor of Halloween, we wanted to celebrate by sharing a few of our Rapid7 pen testers’ costumed crusades.

7 min InsightIDR

Be Audit You Can Be, Part 1: How to Securely Send and Monitor Your Audit Logs with InsightIDR

In this blog, we discuss how to collect the audit trail from a device or application using InsightVM and InsightIDR.

1 min InsightConnect

End-to-End Office 365 Administration with InsightConnect

Rapid7 is excited to announce new integrations between InsightConnect and Office 365.

3 min Application Security

Application Security Testing + Monitoring with DAST and RASP: A Two-Pronged Approach

For full coverage of your apps, you’ll require multiple application security solutions, such as DAST and RASP.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/25/19

Is URGENT/11 urgent to your world? Metasploit now has a scanner module to help find the systems that need URGENT attention. Be sure to check the options on this one; RPORTS is a list to test multiple services on each target. Thanks Ben Seri for the PoC that lead off this work. Everyone likes creds, a new post module landed this week from Taeber Rapczak that brings back credent

3 min InsightConnect

Accelerating Incident Response with Threat Intelligence and Alert Enrichment

Rapid7 continues to invest in making automation more accessible for security professionals across the entire Insight Cloud product suite and our standalone SOAR solution, InsightConnect.

5 min Cybersecurity

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019: Must-Read Blogs on ‘Secure IT’

In this blog, we will highlight must-read blog posts that align with NCSAM’s “Secure IT” sub-themes of strong passwords, MFA, work secure, phishing, and e-commerce.

2 min InsightConnect

How to Build Custom Plugins for InsightConnect

We’ve recently added new capabilities that will empower you to quickly build your own plugins and import them into InsightConnect to further orchestrate your processes.

4 min InsightVM

5 Steps to Go from Patch Management to Vulnerability Management

The terms “patch management” and “vulnerability management” are sometimes used interchangeably, but it is important to understand the difference.

3 min Events

Cyber Takes Flight: My Experience Competing in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

This year, Rapid7 flew the winning team of the UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge to Las Vegas to attend DEF CON This is their experience.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/18/19

Nagios XI post module Nagios XI may store the credentials of the hosts it monitors, and with the new post module by Cale Smith , we're now able to extract the Nagios database content along with its SSH keys and dump them into the MSF database. With the addition of this new post module, we can conveniently increase the opportunities for lateral movement. Environment-based API token authentication Our own ekel

2 min Research

What a Difference a Year Makes: Revisiting Our Inaugural Fortune 500 ICER One Year Later

It's now been a year since we released our first Fortune 500 ICER, so we decided to take a quick look at a key control, DMARC, to look for improvements.

4 min InsightVM

InsightVM vs. Managed Vulnerability Management: How to Choose Which Rapid7 Offering Is Right for You

In this blog, we explain our two vulnerability management offerings—InsightVM and our Managed Vulnerability Management Service—so you can make an informed decision about which is right for you.

13 min InsightIDR

Import External Threat Intelligence with the InsightIDR Threats API

In this blog, we explain how to automate updating threat feeds in InsightIDR using the REST API.

4 min Podcast

How BlackICE Creator Rob Graham Became a Security Textbook Author

On this week’s episode of Security Nation, we spoke with Rob Graham, the founder of Errata Security Consultancy, well-known security blogger, and soon-to-be book author.