InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, identifying and assessing Remote assets, highlighting changes in their environment in the last 30 days and many more.

Before today, you would have to apply queries to individual cards to focus these visualizations on particular assets or vulnerabilities — like focusing all of the cards in a dashboard on servers running Ubuntu. InsightVM provides an easy and powerful means to create these filters, but this was cumbersome if a dashboard contained numerous cards.

This is why we’re happy to announce the release of the ability to apply a query to a dashboard and all of the cards will now adjust the results accordingly. To illustrate this, let’s consider a hypothetical InsightVM user named Dana.

Dana is a security engineer at a rapidly expanding, global organization. This company regularly adds new offices around the world. Every office requires new servers and networks, and these assets need to be secured.

Dana’s first task when a new office is acquired is to create a dashboard for each new location using the Significant Changes in the Past 30 Days template. She finds this helps her keep up with changes in the risk posture of their environments. However, every time she creates one of these dashboards, she needs to add a filter to each of the 14 cards to focus on the office for which it’s intended. This task can take up to an hour, which is tim ..

Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.