Posts by Eric Sun

SIEM Security Tools: Six Expensive Misconceptions

Understanding recent improvements to traditional SIEMs incorporated by next-generation solutions proves critical to building a confident security posture.

3 min Cloud Infrastructure

Why the Modern SIEM Is in the Cloud

Let’s talk about why modern SIEM is in the cloud, what core benefits you can expect, and how it is predicted to evolve as we soar toward 2020.

4 min InsightIDR

Securing Your Cloud Environments with InsightIDR, Part 2: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

In this blog, we will talk about threat detection for the world’s most popular cloud host, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

4 min Detection and Response

Forrester Tech Tide for Detection and Response: Is 2019 the Year of Convergence?

Rapid7 was recently recognized for capabilities spanning security user behavior analytics, security analytics, deception technology, SOAR, and file integrity monitoring.

4 min Automation and Orchestration

Automation: The Ultimate Enabler for Threat Detection and Response

In our recent webcast series, we explain how companies can accelerate across their entire threat detection and response lifecycle by leveraging automation.

3 min Compliance

Address the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law

The NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law suggests a modern approach to detecting and responding to threats. This post looks at a few interesting requirements and shares how we can partner with your team across people, process, and technology.

5 min Phishing

Phishing Attacks Duping Your Users? Here’s a Better Anti-Phishing Strategy.

You’ve hired the best of the best and put up the right defenses, but one thing keeps slipping in the door: phishing emails. Part of doing business today, unfortunately, is dealing with phishing attacks [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/phishing-attacks/]. Few organizations are immune to phishing anymore; it’s on every security team’s mind and has become the number one threat to organizations [https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/analyst/2017-threat-landscape-survey-users-front-line-3

4 min InsightIDR

Attacker Behavior Analytics: How InsightIDR Detects Unknown Threats

InsightIDR customers now have an ever-evolving library of attacker behavior detections automatically matched against their data. Read on to learn how Rapid7 SOC and threat intel teams investigate a constant rumbling of attacker behavior and transform it into actionable threat intelligence.

4 min Endpoint Security

Why Managed Detection and Response Zeroes In On the Endpoint

This post was co-written with Wade Woolwine [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/author/wade-woolwine/], Rapid7 Director of Managed Services. What three categories do attackers exploit to get on your corporate network? Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and credentials. Whether the attack starts by stealing cloud service credentials, or exploiting a vulnerability on a misconfigured, internet-facing asset, compromising an internal asset is a great milestone for an intruder. Once an endpoint is comprom

4 min Detection and Response

Prepare for Battle: Let’s Build an Incident Response Plan (Part 4)

This is not a drill. In this final installment, read our recommendations for handling a real incident. Whether opportunistic or targeted, here's what you should be thinking about.

3 min Incident Response

Prepare for Battle: Let’s Build an Incident Response Plan (Part 3)

Now, it’s time for the fun stuff. While an incident response plan review may feel like practicing moves on a wooden dummy, stress testing should feel more like Donnie Yen fighting ten people for bags of rice in Ip Man

3 min Detection and Response

Prepare for Battle: Let’s Build an Incident Response Plan (Part 2)

In Part 1, we covered key considerations when drafting an incident response plan. Here, we'll cover the best way to get buy-in from key company stakeholders...

2 min InsightIDR

2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM: Rapid7 Named a Visionary

If you’re currently tackling an active SIEM project, it’s not easy to dig through libraries of product briefs and outlandish marketing claims. You can turn to trusted peers, but that’s challenging in a world where most leaders aren’t satisfied with their SIEM [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/siem/], even after generous amounts of professional services and third-party management. Luckily, Gartner is no stranger to putting vendors to the test, especially for SIEM, where since 2005 they’ve rele

3 min Detection and Response

Prepare for Battle: Let’s Build an Incident Response Plan (Part 1)

Creating and testing an IR plan mitigates risk—help your organization perform at its best by preparing it for the worst. Join us for Part 1: drafting the plan.

3 min InsightIDR

InsightIDR Monitors Win, Linux & Mac Endpoints

Today’s SIEM tools [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightidr/] aren’t just for compliance and post-breach investigations. Advanced analytics, such as user behavior analytics, are now core to SIEM to help teams find the needles in their ever-growing data stacks. That means in order for project success, the right data sources need to be connected: “If a log falls in a forest and no parser hears it, the SIEM hath no sound.” We’ve included endpoint visibility in InsightIDR since the beginning—it’