2 min
InsightIDR
How to Detect BitTorrent Traffic on your Network
Learn how to detect BitTorrent traffic on your network to capture metadata such as INFO-HASH, IP addresses, and usernames.
1 min
InsightIDR
Want to try InsightIDR in Your Environment? Free Trial Now Available
InsightIDR, our SIEM powered by user behavior analytics, is now available to try in your environment. This post shares how it can help your security team.
4 min
InsightIDR
PCI DSS Dashboards in InsightIDR: New Pre-Built Cards
No matter how much you mature your security program
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/security-program-basics/] and reduce the
risk of a breach, your life includes the need to report across the company, and
periodically, to auditors. We want to make that part as easy as possible.
We built InsightIDR [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/] as a SaaS SIEM
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/siem/] on top of our proven User Behavior
Analytics (UBA) [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/user-
4 min
Incident Detection
Web Shells 101: Detection and Prevention
2016 has been a big year for information security, as we've seen attacks by both
cybercriminals and state actors increase in size and public awareness, and the
Internet of Things comes into its own as a field of study. But today we'd like
to talk about a very old (but no less dangerous) type of attacker tool – web
shells – and new techniques Rapid7 is developing for identifying them quickly
and accurately.
What is a Web Shell?
Web shells are web-based applications that provide a threat actor wi
3 min
InsightIDR
How to Troubleshoot Slow Network Issues With Network Traffic Analysis
In this blog, we discuss how to troubleshoot slow network issues with Network Traffic Analysis.
3 min
Incident Detection
Introspective Intelligence: Understanding Detection Techniques
To provide insight into the methods devised by Rapid7, we'll need to revisit the
detection methods implemented across InfoSec products and services and how we
apply data differently. Rapid7 gathers volumes of threat intelligence on a daily
basis - from new penetration testing tools, tactics, and procedures in
Metasploit, vulnerability detections in Nexpose, and user behavior anomalies in
InsightIDR. By continuously generating, refining and applying threat
intelligence, we enable more robust dete
4 min
SIEM
Displace SIEM "Rules" Built for Machines with Custom Alerts Built For Humans
If you've ever been irritated with endpoint detection being a black box and SIEM
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/siem.jsp?CS=blog] detection putting the entire
onus on you, don't think you had unreasonable expectations; we have all wondered
why solutions were only built at such extremes. As software has evolved and our
base expectations with it, a lot more people have started to wonder why it
requires so many hours of training just to make solutions do what they are
designed to do. Defining a
3 min
Vulnerability Management
Warning: This blog post contains multiple hoorays! #sorrynotsorry
Hooray for crystalware!
I hit a marketer's milestone on Thursday – my first official award ceremony,
courtesy of the folks at Computing Security Awards
[https://computingsecurityawards.co.uk/], which was held at The Cumberland Hotel
in London. Staying out late on a school night when there's a 16 month old
teething toddler in the house definitely took it's toll the following morning,
but the tiredness was definitely softened by the sweet knowledge that we'd left
the award ceremony brandishing so
3 min
InsightIDR
3 Ways for Generating Reports on WAN Bandwidth Utilization
3 popular ways of getting visibility into WAN bandwidth monitoring, one of the most popular use cases for network traffic analysis.
5 min
InsightIDR
5 Methods For Detecting Ransomware Activity
Recently, ransomware was primarily a consumer problem. However, cybercriminals behind recent ransomware attacks have now shifted their focus to businesses.
5 min
Incident Response
What Makes SIEMs So Challenging?
I've been at the technical helm for dozens of demonstrations and evaluations of
our incident detection and investigation solution, InsightIDR
[https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/], and I've been running into the
same conversation time and time again: SIEMs aren't working for incident
detection and response. At least, they aren't working without investing a lot
of time, effort, and resources to configure, tune, and maintain a SIEM
deployment. Most organizations don't have the recommende
2 min
InsightIDR
Calling Your Bluff: Behavior Analytics in Poker and Incident Detection
As a former – or dormant – professional poker player, I'm seeing a lot of
parallels between poker and incident detection, especially when it comes to
behavior analytics. Detecting a bluff in poker is really not all that different
from detecting an intruder on the network.
New solutions, like Rapid7's InsightIDR
[https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/], incorporate machine learning and
user behavior analytics [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/] to detect
stealthy attacks. This is
5 min
Incident Detection
What is Incident Detection and Response?
Incident Detection and Response (IDR)
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/incident-response/], also known as
attack/threat detection and response, is the process of finding intruders in
your infrastructure, retracing their activity, containing the threat, and
removing their foothold. By learning how attackers compromise systems and move
around your network, you can be better equipped to detect and stop attacks
before valuable data is stolen. This blog covers the different components of the
atta
5 min
SIEM
5 Ways Attackers Can Evade a SIEM
I've been in love with the idea of a SIEM
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/siem/] since I was a system administrator.
My first Real Job™ was helping run a Linux-based network for a public
university. We were open source nuts, and this network was our playground.
Things did not always work as intended. Servers crashed, performance was
occasionally iffy on the fileserver and the network, and we were often
responding to outages.
Of course, we had tools to alert us when outages were going on. I
3 min
InsightIDR
Top 5 Alternatives For SPAN or Mirror Ports
Don’t want to use SPAN ports, but still need a source of network packets? In this blog post we break down the top 5 alternatives for you to consider.