Search Made Easy: InsightIDR’s Secret Weapon for Efficiency and Efficacy

Search Made Easy: InsightIDR’s Secret Weapon for Efficiency and Efficacy

By Matt Heidet

Matt is a Senior Information Security Engineer at a Regional Financial Institution. He is a Customer and Guest Blogger for Rapid7

Have you ever groaned when divvying up incidents from a pen-test amongst an overworked team? Or maybe you’ve struggled to present how you adhere to multiple compliance frameworks to your board. As a Senior Information Security Engineer at a Regional Finance Institute, I’m all too familiar with the daily grind – too many threats, not nearly enough time. Fortunately, Rapid7’s InsightIDR has helped me and my team unify our data, verify the nature of threats, and uphold a security posture that we’re confident in.

InsightIDR has lots of features that have enabled my organization to identify and respond more easily to threats. In this blog post, I’m going to share some insight into my favorite – InsightIDR’s Log Search function.

Back to the Beginning: Why We Chose Rapid7

Choosing InsightIDR was a no-brainer for us. We tried two other products, but as soon as we finished the proof-of-concept with Rapid7, we went straight to purchase. There was no point in even testing the others, as InsightIDR provided us with the visibility and context necessary to keep our environment secure

If you already have InsightVM, Rapid7’s vulnerability management solution, it’s a pretty smooth transition to InsightIDR. As existing InsightVM users, we already had the Rapid7 Insight Agent deployed on our endpoints, which provided us with real-time endpoint monitoring for vulnerabilities. When we added InsightIDR to our environment, we were automatically covered on those same endpoints, without any need to set up anything additional.

We were able to get up and running and integrate with a number of Azure Event Hubs ..

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