problem , unless they get lucky and hit one of your developers . The problem with the enterprise is that everything is a big flat network , and it ’ s still very hard to get people to change that . The concern is that with the sudden shift to remote working as a result of COVID-19 , you ’ ve gone from a home workforce of 5-10 % to 100 % and a whole new bunch of VPN traffic that lets anyone have a straight shot to an internal network . It ’ s a recipe for security failure .”

Rapid7 ’ s latest Threat Report was published in February , before the major implications of the coronavirus pandemic had become well known – the business is set to publish a report on this topic later in the year . The Threat Report analysed the Rapid7 data with the view to answer three core questions : what does this mean for you , how can you use it , and how can it improve your security programme ? These are answered across the four key areas of threat telemetry , detection telemetry , recommendations and security programmes .

EXECUTIVE PROFILE :

Title : Director of Research Company : Rapid7 Industry : IT & Network Security Location : Austin , Texas

I ’ m an individual contributor on software engineering projects , a technical security researcher , a no good dirty hacker , an open source maintainer and advocate , a conference organizer , a podcaster , blogger , and all-around new media gadfly , and an often-quoted primary spokesperson — often several to all of these roles at the same time !

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