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5 min SOAR

How to Accelerate Your SOAR Program to Full Speed in Less Than a Year

Here are some reflections and advice about setting up a SOAR program, through the lens of one practitioner's successful and innovative year.

2 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2022-36804: Easily Exploitable Vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center

On August 24, 2022, Atlassian published an advisory for Bitbucket Server and Data Center alerting users to CVE-2022-36804.

5 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 16, 2022

BYOS: Bring your own stager We try hard to make sure we have a great choice of fully-functional payloads to choose from, but sometimes you might want to “branch” out on your own, and if that’s the case we’ve got you covered. In an attempt to make Metasploit play well with others, we’ve introduced a brand new payload type: “custom.” “Custom” payloads use Metasploit stagers to build a stager that will stage whatever shellcode you send it. Got a third-party payload you want to run like Sliver or a

3 min Vulnerability Management

The 2022 SANS Top New Attacks and Threats Report Is In, and It's Required Reading

The latest Top New Attacks and Threat Report from the cybersecurity experts at SANS is here — and the findings are critical for security teams.

7 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - September 2022

In this month's Patch Tuesday, we cover the 79 CVEs, including a zero-day privilege escalation, patched by Microsoft this month.

5 min SOAR

Grey Time: The Hidden Cost of Incident Response

The time cost of incident response for security teams may be greater – and more complex – than we’ve been assuming.

8 min Vulnerability Management

Getting the most out of your InsightVM console

Here are some of the most common improvements to help you get the most out of your InsightVM console in 2024.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 9/9/22

Authenticated command injection vulnerability of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services: jbaines-r7 added a new module that exploits an authenticated command injection vulnerability CVE-2022-20828 of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services. This vulnerability affects all Cisco ASA appliances that support ASA FirePOWER module. Note that, although a patch has been added to most recent ASA FirePOWER mod

4 min Cloud Security

Integrating Cloud Security With DevOps and CI/CD Tools

In this post, we dive into a key aspect of our approach: integrating cloud security with developer and DevOps tooling.

7 min Vulnerability Disclosure

Baxter SIGMA Spectrum Infusion Pumps: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities in two TCP/IP-enabled medical devices produced by Baxter Healthcare.

2 min Events

VeloCON 2022: Digging Deeper Together!

Have you ever wanted to share your passion and interest in Velociraptor with the rest of the community? VeloCON is your chance!

3 min Cloud Security

3 Ways to Improve Data Protection in the Cloud

Here are three cloud data protection best practices highlighted in a recent joint white paper from Rapid7, Mimecast, and Netskope.

3 min Career Development

5 Things Rapid7 Looks for in a BDR, and How We Spot Them

Our Talent Acquisition Partner, Lauren Coloumbe, shares five things we look for in BDRs and how we spot them in the interview process.

6 min Vulnerability Management

5 Steps for Dealing With Unknown Environments in InsightVM

In InsightVM, we can use a little bit of SQL, an overarching site with a ping sweep, and a nifty little tag to help get a handle on unknown environments.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 9/2/22

ICPR Certificate Management This week Metasploit has a new ICPR Certificate Management module from Oliver Lyak and our very own Spencer McIntyre , which can be utilized for issuing certificates via Active Directory Certificate Services. It has the capability to issue certificates which is useful in a few contexts including persistence, ESC1 and as a primitive necessary for exp