4 min
AWS
Seeing Security Scale: Rapid7’s Recap of AWS re:Invent 2018
In this post, I will detail my time at AWS re:Invent and provide observations about how security plays a role in our cloud journey.
3 min
Security Operations
Rapid7 Leads All 'Strong Performers' in 2018 Forrester Wave for Emerging MSSPs
We’re proud to be recognized in the Forrester Wave as the leader in the “Strong Performer” category and to score second highest overall current offering for our Managed Security Services.
3 min
Application Security
In Our Customers’ Words: Why Mastering Application Security Basics Matters
In a recent conversation with a Rapid7 application security customer, I was
reminded how much of a security practitioner’s day can be consumed by
troubleshooting buggy tools and manually executing the same tasks over and over
again (needlessly, may I add). As much as we’d like to think that security
professionals’ time is being efficiently utilized, oftentimes inadequate tools,
a lack of automation, and organizational silos impede SecOps-driven
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/secops/] progress
2 min
InsightVM
Rapid7 InsightVM Named Best Vulnerability Management Solution by SC Magazine
SC Media has announced the 2018 SC Awards and (drumroll, please…)
InsightVM [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightvm/] is proud to take top
honors as Best Vulnerability Management Solution in the Trust Awards category.
Our team works tirelessly day in and day out to bring SecOps best practices
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/secops/] to our customers, help our customers
secure their modern networks, and work across teams to solve their trickiest
problems. It means the world to us when th
4 min
DevOps
How DevOps Can Use Quality Gates for Security Checks
Your team has been working at all hours to put the final touches on code for a
new big feature release. All the specs are in, the feature works as expected,
and the code is pushed to production. A few hours later, the daily security scan
runs and the alerts start piling in. What went wrong? And what do you do now?
Typically when this happens, it means rolling back the entire deployment,
retroactively fixing the bugs and vulnerabilities in the code, and a week or two
later, re-deploying. If you’