3 min
Nexpose
Publishing Nexpose Asset Risk Scores to ePO
Security professionals today face great challenges protecting their assets from
breaches by hackers and malware. A good vulnerability management solution
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/vulnerability-management.jsp?CS=blog] could
help mitigate these challenges, but vulnerability management solutions often
produce huge volumes of data from scanning and require lots of time spent in
differentiating between information and noise.
Rapid7 Nexpose [https://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/?CS=blog]
2 min
Apply business context to ControlsInsight with asset filtering
The ControlsInsight 2.6 release includes an exciting new asset filtering
feature, leveraging Rapid7 RealContextâ„¢ and adding tremendous value to users. It
is a revolution in the way ControlsInsight can be used henceforth. Prior to this
release, ControlsInsight would show how well controls are implemented in a
global sense. Version 2.6 moves to a new dimension where customers can view
their endpoints' controls effectiveness within a particular business context.
ControlsInsight imports the sites,
3 min
Be safe and have your Web browsers updated
ControlsInsight measures how well critical security controls are deployed and
configured in the environment. Web browsers up-to-date is one of the 11 critical
security controls that ControlsInsight monitors, measures and provides
deployment guidance for.
What is the Web browsers up-to-date control?
This control indicates how many assets monitored by ControlsInsight have Web
browsers with the latest updates installed.
Which Web browsers are currently supported by ControlsInsight?
Currently,
2 min
Fine-tune your threat model with control selection
Rapid7 ControlsInsight helps organizations measure how well critical security
controls are deployed and configured across endpoints. ControlsInsight then
provides actionable and prioritized recommendations on how to improve your
organization's security. Currently, our intelligent threat model analyzes 11
important security controls:
* Antivirus optimized
* Code execution prevention
* Email attachment filtering enabled
* Hardened local password
* Hardened web browsers
* High-risk applicat
2 min
Operating System up to date control
ControlsInsight has a very important security control called the Operating
systems up to date for which all the assets are evaluated. This control gives
the indication of whether or not the Operating system present in each asset
assessed by ControlsInsight is up to date with all the vulnerabilities present.
Having the latest OS updates on the asset plays a major role from the security
perspective because each update has latest security updates in them to tackle
the current threats that are prese