The rise of GenAI-powered applications – from internal copilots to customer-facing chatbots – is changing how businesses operate. While these tools drive innovation, they also introduce a fast moving, often invisible layer of risk.

Most traditional AppSec tools were never built to handle the unique threats of conversational AI interfaces. As attackers get savvier, security teams need the right kind of coverage.

That’s why we’re excited to introduce AI Attack Coverage in Exposure Command and InsightAppSec.

This release brings purpose built protection for AI driven applications into your existing AppSec workflows, so you can uncover vulnerabilities that legacy tools miss – and stop AI specific threats before they become business problems.

A new class of risk requires a new kind of coverage

As organizations embrace GenAI, they’re also expanding their attack surface – often without realizing it. LLMs (large language models) and AI integrations create new opportunities for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities like:

• Prompt injection: Tricking the model into revealing sensitive data or bypassing security controls.
• Plugin abuse: Misusing connected tools through AI interfaces.
• Data leakage: Inadvertent exposure of sensitive information in responses.

The problem? These aren’t issues most scanners can detect, and manual reviews don’t scale. AI Attack Coverage addresses this gap head-on with capabilities designed to tackle the evolving threat landscape.

Built to secure what matters most

AI Attack Coverage in Exposure Command introduces a suite of enhancements that work seamlessly within your existing DevSecOps pipelines:

• Smarter scanning for smarter apps: Our enhanced R7Crawler interacts with LLMs and chatbots in real-world ways – uncovering vulnerabilities traditional scanners can’t see.
• Purpose built LLM testing: With 6 new attack modules, comprising 25+ new attack techniques, that will target six of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, we help you find prompt injection, improper output handling, and more.
• AI aware validation: Reduce false positives with intelligent validation powered by AWS Nova Pro, so teams can focus on what’s real and actionable.
• Developer first remediation: Features like Attack Replay and CI/CD integrations help teams fix faster – without slowing down releases​.

Complete visibility, from code to cloud

Exposure Command doesn’t stop at the app layer. With integrated telemetry from InsightCloudSec, you also get:

• Full-stack visibility into where GenAI services live across your environment.
• Automated enforcement of security best practices for AI/ML environments.
• Unified context to prioritize what’s truly risky in your hybrid estate. ​

Get started with AI Attack Coverage

If you’re building with AI – or thinking about it – now’s the time to make sure your security strategy keeps up. AI Attack Coverage gives your team the visibility, context, and control to manage risk in a world where apps are getting smarter, and attackers are more adept at exploiting them.

Whether you’re an AppSec engineer, a risk leader, or a CISO trying to future-proof your security posture, Exposure Command brings it all together.

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Confidently identify and prioritize exposures from endpoint to cloud with full attack surface visibility and threat-aware risk context.

Security teams are investing in more tools than ever – but visibility into real risk is still elusive. Why? Because too many tools are locked inside closed ecosystems that don’t share data or context.

A vendor-agnostic security strategy changes that. It gives you the flexibility to integrate best-in-class tools, eliminate blind spots, and build a stronger, more agile cybersecurity program. It’s also a core enabler of modern frameworks like continuous threat exposure management (CTEM).

In this post, we’ll explore how a vendor-agnostic approach, powered by exposure assessment platforms (EAPs), helps you manage risk smarter – by unifying your attack surface and helping your team focus on what matters most.

The risks of vendor lock-in in cybersecurity

Security teams rely on a mix of tools from different vendors. According to the 2023 Gartner® Technology Adoption Roadmap for Large Enterprises Survey, “cybersecurity leaders indicated that on average their organizations had 43 tools in their cybersecurity product portfolios, and 5% of the leaders indicated their organizations had over 100 tools”. When those tools don’t speak the same language, you’re left with siloed data and a fragmented security strategy. That’s how blind spots are born – and how critical vulnerabilities slip through the cracks.

On top of that, being locked into a single vendor makes it costly and complicated to switch solutions, often forcing organizations to stick with suboptimal tools. Instead of driving innovation, you have limited options that lead to unnecessary spending on add-ons that may not fully meet your needs.

How a vendor-agnostic approach powers CTEM

CTEM is designed to be proactive, contextual, and continuous. It’s about knowing what exposures exist, which ones to prioritize, and how to remediate them – before attackers take advantage. To get the most out of CTEM, your security framework needs to be as flexible as the threats you’re defending against.

That means looking beyond a single vendor’s lens. A vendor-agnostic approach helps you:

• Ingest data from anywhere – across endpoints, cloud, identities, networks, threat intel, and more.
• Correlate and prioritize with context – so your team can focus on what’s urgent and actionable.
• Act faster across teams – with remediation workflows that plug into existing tools and processes.

Unlocking CTEM with exposure assessment platforms

This is where EAPs make a real difference. These platforms unify and enrich data from across your hybrid environment, continuously identifying and prioritizing exposures – like vulnerabilities and misconfigurations – across a wide range of asset types. This gives security teams the context they need to act with clarity and confidence.

With a vendor-agonostic EAP, security teams can:

• Continuously discover exposures across hybrid environments
• Prioritize based on actual risk, not just raw severity scores
• Correlate findings across sources to surface exploitable attack paths
• Enable confident, fast decisions using context like business criticality and threat intel

It’s a centralized command center for everything that puts your organization at risk – and helps provide insight into what you can do about it.

Real-world example: Why risk context matters

Let’s say your team spots a misconfiguration in a firewall. On its own, that might trigger a red flag. But without deeper context, it’s hard to know if it’s actually a risk – or just noise.

Now imagine you can instantly cross-reference that misconfiguration with endpoint telemetry. If those endpoints aren’t exposed or already have compensating controls in place, you can safely deprioritize the issue. But if it opens the door to vulnerable assets? You’ve got the clarity (and urgency) to act.

That level of insight is only possible with a centralized, vendor-agnostic platform that brings together telemetry from across your environment. It filters out the noise and empowers your team to make informed, high-impact decisions.

Key takeaways

Strengthen your organization's overall security posture by adopting a vendor-agnostic strategy that helps your team:

• Break free from vendor lock-in for more flexibility and control
• Unify security tools to drive a more effective CTEM program
• Enhance decision-making with EAPs
• Extract more value from the tools and telemetry you already have

Build a future-ready cybersecurity strategy

Rapid7’s Exposure Command embraces a vendor-agnostic approach to provide a unified, transparent view of your security landscape. It aggregates telemetry and risk signals from across your existing tools – endpoint, cloud, identity, vulnerability management, and more – so you can:

• Uncover blind spots hidden in fragmented vendor ecosystems
• Correlate and contextualize risk with a unified, real-time view
• Streamline decisions and accelerate remediation with automated workflows and prioritization

By moving to a vendor-agnostic approach with Rapid7, you’re not just reducing risk — you’re building a security program that’s resilient, scalable, and built for what’s next.

1Gartner, Infrastructure Security Primer for 2025, John Watts, Franz Hinner, 29 January 2025 (For Gartner subscribers only)

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