Automated Vulnerability Remediation Integration

Automated vulnerability remediation (AVR) brings together vulnerability detection and remediation. AVR is used to shorten the vulnerability remediation cycles. AVR allows you to do the following:

• Automatically ingest prioritized vulnerabilities from InsightVM’s Platform API into the Automox console

• Extend remediation actions through Worklets using Rapid7 vulnerability solution details

• Identify coverage gaps in managed devices between Rapid7’s InsightVM API and the Automox console

• Remediate third-party vulnerabilities. Refer to Understanding Automox Severity Data for a list of software packages we support updates for.

 

Setting up for Rapid7 Integration

Follow these requirements and configuration steps to ensure the integration with Rapid7 is successful.

Prerequisites:

• You have zone administrator or zone operator permissions for the zone where the devices are located.

• Your zone is under a plan that includes Automated Vulnerability Remediations.

Requirements

To use AVR, you need the following information:

• Your active Rapid7 license for InsightVM (Cloud Enabled)

• Your active Rapid7 Insight Platform API key

• Rapid7 Insight Platform region information

• You have an active Automox license that includes AVR

• Note: InsightConnect is not a requirement

Accessing your Rapid7 API key

Prior to configuring a connection to Rapid7 InsightVM from within Automox, it is first necessary to collect the information needed to save a connection. This includes generating a Rapid7 Insight Platform API key and identifying the appropriate Rapid7 region. See also Rapid7 Api key documentation.

1. Using an administrator account, login to the Rapid7 Insight Platform at https://insight.rapid7.com/platform#/  

2. After logging in, capture the region information (you will need this later) and click the gear icon (⚙) to reveal the API Keys sub-menu. Click API Keys to continue.

    

   

3. Click New User Key

    

   

4. To generate a new user key, select an Organization from the drop-down menu and assign a Name to that organization.

    

   

5. Click Generate.

6. Copy the API key from the dialog window. This is needed to configure the provider connection in a later step. When you are finished, click Done.

   

Creating a Connection and Configuration for the Rapid7 integration

To set up the automated vulnerability remediation integration with Rapid7, follow the steps described in this section:

1. Creating a Connection to the Rapid7 Platform API

2. Creating a Configuration, which defines Asset and Vulnerability scope

After you complete these steps, remediations are pulled into Automox on a recurring basis.

Creating a Connection

1. From the Automox console, select Manage → Remediations.

    

   

2. Note: If you are accessing the Remediations page for the first time, you may only see two boxes as shown here. Select the Get Started button in the Partner Integration: Rapid7 box and skip to Step 6 to configure the connection.

   

3. The Remediations page opens to the Automated tab.

   

4. Click Add New.

5. From the Integration Provider drop-down menu, select Rapid7 InsightVM. Click Next.

    

   

6. Follow these steps to configure the connection:

   • Select Create a new connection. Make sure you have the required information ready.

   • In the Connection Name field, enter a descriptive instance name. (For example, for customers with multiple organizations or regions: division01-us3 an division02-us2).

   • Enter the Rapid7 API key.

   • Select the region from the Rapid7 Region menu.

   • Click Next.

      

     

7. Because connections are reusable, these steps only need to be performed more than once if there are multiple Rapid7 organizations in the environment. If only a single connection is necessary, select the existing connection from the Connection drop-down menu.

Creating a Configuration

After creating or selecting a connection, define the configuration settings.

See Rapid7 Insight documentation for information about R7 Asset Tags.

1. Enter a descriptive Configuration Name.

2. Add any Rapid7 Asset Tags that you would like to scope from Rapid7. Hit enter or tab to define multiple tags.

   

    

3. From the Rapid7 Vulnerability Scope drop-down list, select a scope from the options available:

   • Exploitable Critical Vulnerabilities: Vulnerabilities with critical exploits available

   • Common Exploitable Vulnerabilities: Commonly exploited vulnerabilities

   • Vulnerabilities with 3+ Exploits: Vulnerabilities that have three or more exploits published

   • CISA Recommended Vulnerabilities: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency identified threats

   • CVSS Score > 8: (CVSSv3) Vulnerabilities that are greater than a severity score of 8

4. Click Submit to complete the configuration. The integration is saved and a pull of Rapid7 data is immediately initiated.
   Note: If you do not want to immediately fetch data, clear the checkbox for Fetch latest remediations now.

5. When the sync successfully finishes, the status is updated in the banner area of the Automox console.

You can now see the Automated tab and any reports. Refer to Remediation and Configuration Management for further details.

Related Topics

• Remediation and Configuration Management

• Automated Vulnerability Remediation FAQ

• Using Automox Vulnerability Sync

• Automox University Course: Automated Vulnerability Remediation

• Rapid7 Extensions Library