Posts tagged Cloud Security

3 min Cloud Security

How to Address the Current Complexity and Chaos of Cloud IAM

Can security teams ever truly understand their cloud permissions? As DevSecOps grows ever further into the cloud, more people have the ability to provision cloud resources independently, without involving IT.

2 min Cloud Security

Top Challenges for Security Analytics and Operations, and How a Cloud-Based SIEM Can Help

To keep up and combat key security operations challenges, many organizations are making the move to the cloud for broader, more flexible detection and response coverage of their ever-changing security environments.

6 min ICER Reports

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Version Complexity Among the Fortune 500

Complexity is the enemy to successful security outcomes. To get a feel for how well-resourced organizations perform in this area, we looked at 3 factors.

4 min Cloud Security

4 DevOps Challenges to Cloud Security and Compliance—and How IaC Can Help

There are many challenges on the road to the goal of a super-efficient working relationship between DevOps and cloud security. Let’s take a look at 4 of those challenges & how security organizations can leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates to go from a reaction to a prevention culture.

5 min Kubernetes Security

Securing Kubernetes Deployments From Runway to Takeoff

Kubernetes use is rising rapidly—according to a 2019 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, 78% of respondents say they use Kubernetes today (58% more respondents than the previous year).

4 min ICER Reports

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Web Security Among the Fortune 500

There are very few security measures that should be applied to all web applications across the board without further subdividing what specific type of application we are referring to. However, there are a couple that we will examine here.

3 min Cloud Security

The Future is Friction-Free: Drive Innovation With DevOps + SecOps

How can DevOps and IT teams work and innovate in a friction-reduced or—we can all dream—a friction-free way?

3 min Kubernetes Security

Kubernetes Namespaces Are Not as Secure as You Think

A common misconception around namespaces is that they are truly separated. However, it is more likely to think of it as a police tape—you know it is there, but it is fairly easy to bypass it.

5 min Cloud Security

Looking Back and Moving Forward With Rapid7’s Cloud Security Solution

The DivvyCloud by Rapid7 team has had a busy and productive start to 2021, and we anticipate that the rest of this year will be equally exciting for our valued customers.

3 min Cloud Security

DivvyCloud Adds Support for IAM Analyzer Policy Recommendations

Rapid7 built out support for the IAM Access Analyzer policy recommendations to DivvyCloud within 48 hours of AWS’s announcement.

3 min Cloud Security

How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and everything you’re working with.

3 min Cloud Security

How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance

Complicated cloud compliance is weighing on many organizations as off-premises security quickly becomes more of the norm.

2 min Cloud Infrastructure

Why More Teams are Shifting Security Analytics to the Cloud This Year

As the threat landscape continues to evolve in size and complexity, so does the security skills and resource gap, leaving organizations both understaffed and overwhelmed.

2 min Rapid7 Perspective

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Kubernetes Security Provider, Alcide

We at Rapid7 are happy to announce that we have acquired Alcide, a leader in Kubernetes security based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

6 min Cloud Security

A Holistic Approach to Kubernetes Security and Compliance

Taking a holistic approach to security and risk is essential for any organization that uses Kubernetes or another cloud-based container platform.