Rapid7 Recognized in Forrester’s 2024 Attack Surface Management (ASM) Wave Report

Last updated at Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:59:55 GMT

This week, Rapid7 was recognized as a Contender in Forrester’s report, The Forrester WaveTM: Attack Surface Management (ASM) Solutions Q3 2024. We’re proud to have been selected for inclusion in the report, which to us reflects a continued dedication to enabling customers to:

• Monitor 100% of their attack surface in real time
• Proactively mitigate exposures that leave their organizations susceptible to compromise

Since Forrester’s initial assessment earlier this year, we’ve further extended our investments in this space. We announced the acquisition of Noetic Cyber, a market-leading cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) vendor, and subsequently launched the Command Platform with attack surface management – and our new Surface Command product – as the foundation of that platform.

Modern business dynamics and an ever-evolving threat landscape makes successful data management a daunting challenge. This leads to a majority of organizations not having a strong grasp on their true attack surface. For example:

• Teams have accumulated numerous point solutions to try to keep pace with business growth and adapt to their changing environment.
• Practitioners are consumed by assuming the role of a system integrator, trying to connect a myriad of different solutions that were never intended to be interoperable.
• This lack of connectivity makes it impossible to get the context and clarity needed to actually make sense of data, know what to prioritize, and where to focus.

Attackers are able to exploit this data sprawl – lurking in mountains of data and betting on your inability to detect them and identify the insights that matter before it’s too late. We recognize that teams need a new path forward, and we are excited to support our customers through this next era of security with our Command Platform.

Establishing a strong foundation to transform vulnerability management into a proactive, continuous exposure management process

As cyber threats continue to grow in complexity, the traditional approach to vulnerability management (VM) must evolve. Static scanning and isolated patching efforts are no longer sufficient in the face of sophisticated attackers who exploit even the smallest gaps in security. Organizations need to adopt a more dynamic, integrated approach to exposure management – one that is continuous, context-aware, and capable of adapting to a sprawling attack surface and shifting threat landscape.

Rapid7 is uniquely positioned to support your organization’s evolution toward a more holistic and continuous process designed to continuously assess, prioritize, and remediate threats across an organization’s entire attack surface. Surface Command is built to provide the comprehensive visibility and actionable insights necessary for effective threat exposure management. Integrating data from across your entire environment – whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud, or somewhere in between – customers are able to see and understand risks in their full context.

With Rapid7, you’re not just getting another vulnerability or attack surface management tool; you’re gaining a partner that helps you elevate your entire security strategy. Our platform’s ability to aggregate and correlate data from different sources ensures you have a complete, accurate picture of your threat landscape that you can trust. Moreover, our advanced querying capabilities enable you to quickly identify and focus on the most critical risks, helping to facilitate timely and precise remediation efforts.

Surface Command stands out in a few ways:

• Unified internal and external attack surface visibility: Monitor your attack surface from the inside out with a dynamic asset and identity inventory alongside continuous external scans that provide an adversary’s perspective.
• Vendor-agnostic approach: Aggregate all data into a unified asset model – from your internal and external environments as well as your entire technology ecosystem.
• Powerful search and analytics: Slice and dice your data however you see fit, with powerful querying capabilities that help you find the needle in the haystack.
• Seamless integration and remediation workflows: Quickly get relevant asset insights and risk context, then initiate remediation workflows – all from one place.

This comprehensive visibility and contextual prioritization empowers your security team to shift from a reactive to a proactive posture, transforming your VM program into a robust, continuous defense mechanism.

Proactively mitigate exposures from endpoint to cloud

Exposure Command builds off the complete environment visibility powered by Surface Command. It ingests high-fidelity asset data from proprietary and third-party sources, automatically aggregating and correlating that data into an up-to-date asset inventory and topology map. Our powerful querying capabilities enable you to easily adjust your scope and drill into the details you need to spot control gaps, non-compliance, and extinguish risk across your hybrid environment.

The platform goes beyond monitoring and asset inventory mapping, enriching telemetry with compliance and risk findings from Rapid7’s entire set of exposure management capabilities. With hybrid VM, comprehensive cloud security, and web application testing in one complete solution, security teams can shift from reactive to proactive to stay ahead of adversaries.

Exposure Command extends the power of Surface Command with the following:

• Pinpoint and mitigate vulnerabilities everywhere: Automatically prioritize vulnerabilities across your hybrid environment based on exploitability and potential impact.
• Monitor effective access and enforce least privilege access (LPA): Analyze all roles and identities across your clouds to help eliminate excessive permissions and enforce LPA at scale.
• Proactively mitigate exposures in cloud-native apps: Avoid risk before it reaches production with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and web app scanning that delivers actionable feedback to developers where they work.
• Spot avenues for attackers to traverse your cloud network: Attack path analysis enables you to visualize interconnected resources and uncover paths for attackers to move laterally across your environment.

With these robust capabilities, Exposure Command empowers teams to continuously assess their attack surface, validate exposures, and confidently take action with remediation guidance that takes into account existing downstream controls as well as the blast radius of a potential compromise.

Interested in learning more about Exposure Command?

If you’re interested in diving deeper into how Rapid7 can help transform your security operations, be sure to check out our recent webcast with Jon Schipp, Senior Director of Product Management, and Thomas Green, Senior Security Solutions Engineer. In this session, the two discuss key strategies for leveraging Exposure Command to stay ahead of today’s evolving threats.