5 min
Vulnerability Management
How to Remediate Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Offices
Your vulnerability scanner [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightvm/] embarks
on its weekly scan. The report comes in, you fire it off to your IT team across
the country and...silence. Thinking they’re on it, you go on with your day,
until next week’s scan report comes in and you find out that not everything was
fixed and issues have progressed.
For companies with distributed offices, it can be tricky to communicate issues
to teammates you have limited facetime with, get things done quickly w
2 min
InsightVM
Vulnerability Management Year in Review, Part 3: Remediate
The wide impact
[https://www.wired.com/story/petya-ransomware-outbreak-eternal-blue/] of the
Petya-like ransomware
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/06/27/petya-ransomware-explained/] in
2017, mere weeks after WannaCry
[https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/05/12/wanna-decryptor-wncry-ransomware-explained/]
exploited many of the same vulnerabilities, illustrated the challenge that
enterprises have with remediating even major headline-grabbing vulnerabilities,
let alone the many vulnerabil
4 min
GDPR
Creating a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Program for GDPR with InsightVM
The General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR)
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/compliance/gdpr/] deadline in 2018 is rapidly
approaching, and as companies prepare for GDPR compliance
[/2017/02/23/preparing-for-gdpr/], they’re facing a struggle that’s plagued
every security program for years: how to quantify that nebulous, scary thing
called “risk.” GDPR compliance [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/gdpr/]
specifically talks about “risk” several times in its guidelines, particularly in
Arti
1 min
Cleaning House: Maintaining an accurate and relevant vulnerability management program
When Nexpose [https://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/] launched in the early
2000s, technology was vastly different from the world we live in today: most
people connected to the internet over dial-up modems, personal computers were
shared within the household, and televisions were still set-top boxes.
Technology has evolved dramatically since then, and Rapid7's vulnerability
management solutions
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/vulnerability-management/] have evolved to
meet the needs of secur
2 min
Nexpose
Samba CVE-2017-7494: Scanning and Remediating in InsightVM and Nexpose
Just when you'd finished wiping away your WannaCry
[/2017/05/12/wanna-decryptor-wncry-ransomware-explained] tears, the interwebs
dropped another bombshell: a nasty Samba vulnerability, CVE-2017-7494
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/samba-cve-2017-7494] (no snazzy name
as of the publishing of this blog, but hopefully something with a Lion King
reference will be created soon).
As with WannaCry, we wanted to keep this simple. First, check out Jen Ellis's
overview of the Samba vulnerabil
4 min
Container Security
Modern Network Coverage and Container Security in InsightVM
For a long time, the concept of “infrastructure” remained relatively unchanged:
Firewalls, routers, servers, desktops, and so on make up the majority of your
network. Yet over the last few years, the tides have begun to shift.
Virtualization is now ubiquitous, giving employees tremendous leeway in their
ability to spin up and take down new machines at will. Large chunks of critical
processes and applications run in cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS)
and Microsoft Azure. Containers hav
4 min
Ransomware
Scanning and Remediating WannaCry/MS17-010 in InsightVM and Nexpose
*Update 5/18/17: EternalBlue exploit (used in WannaCry attack) is now available
in Metasploit for testing your compensating controls and validating
remediations. More info: EternalBlue: Metasploit Module for MS17-010
[/2017/05/20/metasploit-the-power-of-the-community-and-eternalblue]. Also
removed steps 5 and 6 from scan instructions as they were not strictly necessary
and causing issues for some customers.
*Update 5/17/17: Unauthenticated remote checks have now been provided. For hosts
that ar
3 min
InsightVM
InsightVM: Analytics-driven Vulnerability Management, All The Way To The End(point)
In 2015 Rapid7 introduced the Insight platform, built to reduce the complexity
inherent in security analytics. This reality was introduced first to our
InsightIDR [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/] users, who now had the
capabilities of a SIEM [https://rapid7.com/solutions/siem/], powered by user
behavior analytics (UBA) [https://rapid7.com/solutions/user-behavior-analytics/]
and endpoint detection
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/endpoint-detection-and-response/]. Soon we
started
3 min
Nexpose
"Informational" Vulnerabilities vs. True Vulnerabilities
A question that often comes up when looking at vulnerability management
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/vulnerability-management-and-scanning/]
tools is, “how many vulnerability checks do you have?” It makes sense on the
surface; after all, less vulnerability checks = less coverage = missed
vulnerabilities during a scan right?
As vulnerability researchers would tell you, it's not that simple: Just as not
all vulnerabilities are created equal, neither are vulnerability checks.
How “True”
4 min
Nexpose
Nexpose: Live Assessment and the Passive Scanning Trap
With the launch of Nexpose Now in June, we've talked a lot about the “passive
scanning trap” and “live assessment” in comparison. You may be thinking: what
does that actually mean? Good question.
There has been confusion between continuous monitoring and continuous
vulnerability assessment – and I'd like to propose that a new term “continuous
risk monitoring” be used instead, which is where Adaptive Security and Nexpose
Now fits. The goal of a vulnerability management program
[https://www.rapid
2 min
Nexpose
Nexpose integrates with McAfee ePO and DXL: The first unified vulnerability management solution for Intel Security customers!
We wanted to give you a preview into Nexpose's new integration with both McAfee
ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL); this is the
next stage of our partnership with Intel as their chosen vendor for
vulnerability management . This partnership is also a first for both Rapid7 and
Intel, as Nexpose is the only vulnerability management
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/vulnerability-management/] solution to not
only push our unique risk scoring into ePO for analysis, but al
4 min
Nexpose
Creating your First Vulnerability Scan: Nexpose Starter Tips
Welcome to Nexpose and the Rapid7 family! This blog is a step by step guide for
new Nexpose customers to show you how to set up your first site, start a scan,
and get your vulnerability management program under way.
First thing's first: A few definitions in Nexpose:
Site: A (usually) physical group of assets; i.e. what you want to scan
Scan Template: The things that your scan will look for and how it does
discovery; i.e. how you scan
Dynamic Asset Group: A filtering of the assets from your s