What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q2 2023 in Review

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q2 2023 in Review

The past few weeks have been extraordinary for the global threat landscape with zero-day vulnerabilities like MOVEit (CVE-2023-34362) and Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway (ESG) (CVE-2023-2868). Rapid7’s security research team was one of the first to detect exploitation of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer solution—four days before the vendor issued public advisory. From there, the team moved quickly to provide prompt remediation guidance to InsightVM and Nexpose customers.

With continued focus to drive better customer outcomes, this quarter is filled with product upgrades like improved UI for the Console, custom policy for Agent-Based assessment, an updated dashboard card, and more. Let’s take a look at some of the key updates in InsightVM and Nexpose from Q2.

[InsightVM] Agent-Based Policy supports custom policy assessment

Guidelines from Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) are widely used industry benchmarks for configuration assessment. However, a benchmark or guideline alone may not meet the unique needs of every business.

So, Agent-Based Policy assessment now supports Custom Policies. Global Administrators can now customize built-in policies, upload policies, or enable a copy of existing custom policies for agent-based assessments. Learn more here.

[InsightVM] Top Riskiest Asset Locations dashboard card provides even more details

The Top Riskiest Asset Locations dashboard card previously showed site location and risk score. This card was enhanced, on customer request, to also include total assets and total vulnerabilities in the card preview. This provides c ..

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