Posts by Jen Ellis

10 min Security Nation

Taking Inspiration from Our Security Nation in an Otherwise Uninspiring Year

With 2020 finally coming to a close, the Security Nation podcast team shares their top highlights from throughout the year.
4 min Security Strategy

Help Others Be "Cyber Aware" This Festive Season—And All Year Round!

Are you tired of being the cybersecurity help desk for everyone you know? This blog is for you!
6 min Public Policy

Internet of Things Cybersecurity Regulation and Rapid7

Over the past few years, the security of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a consistent focus in policy circles around the world.
7 min Government

What's Happening With Markups for the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019?

In recent weeks, the House and Senate have drafted versions of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019. Here are are thoughts.
2 min Podcast

(Re)Introducing Rapid7’s Podcast, Security Nation

This week, we are re-launching Rapid7’s podcast, Security Nation. The new, re-imagined podcast will focus on showcasing people and projects that are advancing security in their own ways.

8 min Public Policy

The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019

In this blog post, we will walk through the newly introduced IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019 and describe Rapid7's position on it.

4 min Linux

Patching CVE-2017-7494 in Samba: It's the Circle of Life

With the scent of scorched internet still lingering in the air from the WannaCry Ransomworm [http://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2017/05/12/wanna-decryptor-wncry-ransomware-explained] , today we see a new scary-and-potentially-incendiary bug hitting the twitter news. The vulnerability - CVE-2017-7494 [https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/oracle-solaris-cve-2017-7494] - affects versions 3.5 (released March 1, 2010) and onwards of Samba, the defacto standard for providing Wind
1 min Public Policy

Rapid7's Position on the U.S. Executive Order on Immigration

On Friday, January 27th, 2017, the White House issued an Executive Order entitled, “Protecting The Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into The United States. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states] ” As has been well-publicized, the Order suspends some immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries — Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya — for 90 days, halts the refugee program for 120 days,

5 min Research

Research Report: Vulnerability Disclosure Survey Results

When cybersecurity researchers find a bug in product software, what's the best way for the researchers to disclose the bug to the maker of that software? How should the software vendor receive and respond to researchers' disclosure? Questions like these are becoming increasingly important as more software-enabled goods - and the cybersecurity vulnerabilities they carry - enter the marketplace. But more data is needed on how these issues are being dealt with in practice. Today we helped publish

6 min Government

Vulnerability Disclosure and Handling Surveys - Really, What's the Point?

Maybe I'm being cynical, but I feel like that may well be the thought that a lot of people have when they hear about two surveys posted online this week to investigate perspectives on vulnerability disclosure and handling. Yet despite my natural cynicism, I believe these surveys are a valuable and important step towards understanding the real status quo around vulnerability disclosure and handling so the actions taken to drive adoption of best practices will be more likely to have impact. Hopef
13 min Public Policy

12 Days of HaXmas: Political Pwnage in 2015

This post is the ninth in the series, "The 12 Days of HaXmas." 2015 was a big year for cybersecurity policy and legislation; thanks to the Sony breach at the end of 2014 year, we kicked the new year off with a renewed focus on cybersecurity in the US Government. The White House issued three legislative proposals, [/2015/01/23/will-the-president-s-cybersecurity-proposal-make-us-more-secure] held a cybersecurity summit, and signed a new Executive Order, all before the end of February. The OPM br
3 min Haxmas

12 Days of HaXmas: Rapid7 Gives to You... Free Professional Media Training (Pear Tree Not Included)

Ho ho ho, Merry HaXmas [/tag/haxmas/]! For those of you new to this series, every year we mark the 12 days of HaXmas with 12 blog posts on hacking-related topics and roundups from the year. This year we're kicking the series off with something not altogether hackery, but it's a gift, see, so very appropriate for the season. For the past couple of years, I've provided free media training at various security conferences, often as part of an I Am The Cavalry [https://www.iamthecavalry.org/] track,
5 min Public Policy

New DMCA Exemption is a Positive Step for Security Researchers

Today the Library of Congress officially publishes its rule-making for the latest round of exemption requests for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).  The advance notice of its findings [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-27212.pdf] revealed some good news for security researchers as the rule-making includes a new exemption to the DMCA for security research: “(i) Computer programs, where the circumvention is undertaken on a lawfully acquired device or

9 min Public Policy

Why I Don't Dislike the Whitehouse/Graham Amendment 2713

[NOTE: No post about legislation is complete without a lot of acronyms representing lengthy and forgettable names of bills. There are three main ones that I talk about in this post: CISA – the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015 – Senate bill that will likely go to vote soon.  The bill aims to facilitate cybersecurity information sharing and create a framework for private and government participation. ICPA – the International Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2015 – proposed bill to extend law en
1 min Legal

Rapid7's Comments on the Wassenaar Arrangement Proposed Rule for Controlling Exports of Intrusion Software

For the past two months, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has been running a public consultation to solicit feedback on its proposal for implementing export controls for intrusion software under the Wassenaar Arrangement. You can read about the proposal and Rapid7's initial thoughts here [/2015/06/13/response-to-the-us-proposal-for-implementing-the-wassenaar-arrangement-export-controls-for-intrusion-software] . The consultation window closed on Monday, July 20th

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