Posts by Jane Man

3 min Vulnerability Management

Live Threat-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization

We often hear that security teams are overwhelmed by the number of vulnerabilities [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/vulnerabilities-exploits-threats/] in their environments: every day they are finding more than they can fix. It doesn't help when rating schemes used for prioritization, like the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), don't really work at scale or take the threat landscape into account. How do you know where to focus if your vulnerability management solution [https://www.

2 min Nexpose

New and Improved Policy Manager

This year we've made many enhancements to the configuration policy assessment capabilities in Nexpose, including adding 4 new reports and NIST 800-53 controls mapping [/2016/08/11/nist-800-53-control-mappings-in-sql-query-export]. Last week we unveiled a new and improved user interface for the Policy Manager, providing you with more information on your compliance position at your fingertips. With the new interface, you can quickly see how compliant you are overall, understand where you need to

2 min Nexpose

Live Monitoring with Endpoint Agents

At the beginning of summer, we announced some major enhancements to Nexpose [https://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/] including Live Monitoring, Threat Exposure Analytics, and Liveboards, powered by the Insight Platform. These capabilities help organizations using our vulnerability management solution [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/vulnerability-management/] to spot changes as it happens and prioritize risks for remediation. We've also been working on a new way for organizations to get a re

2 min Nexpose

Vulnerability Remediation with Nexpose

At the beginning of summer, we announced some major enhancements to Nexpose including Live Monitoring, Threat Exposure Analytics, and Liveboards, powered by the Insight Platform. These capabilities help organizations using our vulnerability management solution to spot changes as it happens and prioritize risks for remediation. We've also been working on a new workflow tool to streamline the next part of the job - fixing exposures. Remediation Workflow (Beta) allows you to convert exposures into

3 min

ControlsInsight Year In Review

While many are already looking ahead and making security predictions for 2014 [https://www.google.com/search?q=security+predictions+2014],  it's also important to pause and reflect on the year that's been. It's been a whirlwind year for ControlsInsight. We developed and launched a new product from the ground up - this in itself is an achievement that everyone involved should be proud of. Since launching in August, we've already released 7 product updates to quickly make improvements based on us