Posts by Amanda Fountain

7 min Rapid7 Perspective

2017 Cybersecurity Horoscopes

What does 2017 hold for cybersecurity? Our mystics have drawn cards, checked crystal balls, and cast runes to peer into the future. See what the signs have in store for you in the new year. Sage Corey Thomas, Rapid7 Gazing into the future of 2017, I believe we will continue to see market consolidation of security vendors. With a focus on increasing productivity, organizations will move further from disparate, point-solutions that solve just one problem to solutions that can be leveraged through

2 min Events

Rapid7 Rapid Fire at UNITED Summit: A Spirited Debate

Rapid Fire returned for the third time to the UNITED Security Summit and once again brought together the infosec community to join the spirited debates. With great questions and participation from the audience, the Rapid7 team would like to first thank everyone who attended this evening – from our customers and UNITED attendees, to the Boston infosec community. Our panel this year featured: * Josh Corman @joshcorman [https://twitter.com/joshcorman] (Founder, I am The Cavalry) * David Kenn

4 min Research

NCSAM: The Danger of Criminalizing Curiosity

This is a guest post from Kurt Opsahl [https://twitter.com/kurtopsahl], Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation [https://twitter.com/EFF]. October is National Cyber Security Awareness month and Rapid7 is taking this time to celebrate security research. This year, NCSAM coincides with new legal protections for security research under the DMCA [/2016/10/03/cybersecurity-awareness-month-2016-this-ones-for-the-researchers] and the 30th anniversary of the