3 min
AWS
How AWS and InsightVM Can Help You Securely Move to the Cloud
No one can deny that cloud adoption is increasing at a fast rate. Though moving
to the cloud offers many advantages—such as speed of development, cost savings,
and reduced overhead—one of the implications of adoption is that customers must
change the way they approach security to adapt to hybrid and fully cloud
infrastructure.
As this happens, security practitioners have to consider how to use their
current on-premises tools in both hybrid and fully cloud environments. The onus
is on security v
3 min
AWS
Rapid7 Partners with AWS Security Hub for Deeper Vulnerability Reporting
Last month, we were thrilled to announce our integration with AWS Security Hub at AWS re:Invent.
4 min
AWS
Securing Buckets with Amazon S3 Block Public Access
Amazon Web Services recently introduced a new security enhancement to its cloud storage service: Amazon S3 Block Public Access.
4 min
AWS
Seeing Security Scale: Rapid7’s Recap of AWS re:Invent 2018
In this post, I will detail my time at AWS re:Invent and provide observations about how security plays a role in our cloud journey.
14 min
AWS
Automate Insight Agent Deployment in AWS
Hello, fellow nerds! Today, I am going to walk you through deploying the Rapid7 Insight Agent in your AWS environment(s).
5 min
AWS
How to Conduct DNS Reconnaissance for $.02 Using Rapid7 Open Data and AWS
Rapid7 is happy to announce that a subset of data from Project Sonar is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
3 min
Nexpose
AWS power-up: Tag import, asset cleanup, AssumeRole, ad-hoc scan
AWS instances present many challenges to security practitioners, who must manage
the spikes and dips of resources in infrastructures that deal in very
short-lived assets. Better and more accurate syncing of when instances are spun
up or down, altered, or terminated directly impacts the quality of security
data.
A New Discovery Connection
Today we’re excited to announce better integration between the Security Console
and Amazon Web Services with the new Amazon Web Services Asset Sync discovery
c
4 min
DevOps
DevOps: Vagrant with AWS EC2 & Digital Ocean
The Benefits of Vagrant Plugins
Following on from my recent DevOps blog posts, The DevOps Tools We Use & How We
Use Them
[https://blog.logentries.com/2014/02/the-devops-tools-we-use-how-we-use-them/]
and Vagrant with Chef-Server
[https://blog.logentries.com/2014/03/devops-vagrant-with-chef-server/], we will
take another step forward and look into provisioning our servers in the cloud.
There are many cloud providers out there, most who provide some sort of APIs.
Dealing with the different APIs
2 min
AWS
The real challenge behind asset inventory
As the IT landscape evolves, and as companies diversify the assets they bring to
their networks - including on premise, cloud and personal assets - one of the
biggest challenges becomes maintaining an accurate picture of which assets are
present on your network. Furthermore, while the accurate picture is the end
goal, the real challenge becomes optimizing the means to obtain and maintain
that picture current. The traditional discovery paradigm of continuous discovery
sweeps of your whole network
3 min
Cloud Infrastructure
Securing the Shadow IT: How to Enable Secure Cloud Services for Your Business
You may fear that cloud services jeopardize your organization's security. Yet,
your business relies on cloud services to increase its productivity. Introducing
a policy to forbid these cloud services may not be a viable option. The better
option is to get visibility into your shadow IT
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/shadow-it/] and to enable your business to
use it securely to increase productivity and keep up with the market.
Step one: Find out which cloud services your organization is u
3 min
User Behavior Analytics
Detecting Compromised Amazon Web Services (AWS) Accounts
As you move more of your critical assets to Amazon Web Services (AWS), you'll
need to ensure that only authorized users have access. Three out of four
breaches use compromised credentials, yet many companies struggle to detect
their use. UserInsight enables organizations to detect compromised credentials,
from the endpoint to the cloud. Through its AWS integration, Rapid7 UserInsight
monitors all administrator access to Amazon Web Services, so you can detect
compromised credentials before they