"I've built plugins for four SOAR vendors, and your model was the most mature. You had the best code quality and structure among the vendors, and as far as development goes, I don't know how it could have been easier." - Brandon McClure, Senior Security Analyst
The Rapid7 Integrations Team is focused on making plugin development an easy and consumable process for all security practitioners, not just those with a programming background or computer science degree. By doing so, we open up the doors for our customers to create more capabilities, reduce their costs, and accomplish more than they could have previously.
What are plugins?
Plugins are the extensible components of Rapid7's InsightConnect, that integrate with and provide specific capabilities for your existing tools and products. In fact, plugins are what enable InsightConnect to talk to your firewall to block a host, tell your endpoint detection system to blacklist a malicious hash, send a patch command to your patch management system, or create that well-defined Jira ticket that needs to be escalated. InsightConnect features nearly 300 out-of-the-box plugins to enable customers to connect their existing tech stack and automate more of their processes, enabling faster, more efficient, and accurate response.
How is it easy?
We’ve made plugin development easy by focusing on a few different key areas:
Automation and tooling
Our Integrations Team relies on automation to get more done, faster. For example, documentation can take a long time to write—sometimes as much time as it took to develop the plugin—so we created our tooling to generat ..
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