TECHNOLOGY
Rapid7 Director of Research , Tod Beardsley , on the cybersecurity landscape for digital enterprises and the company ’ s latest Threat Report
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“ M arch 2020 will be the point we look back and see a fundamental change in how the internet functions , as well as how people and enterprises interact with the internet ,” says Rapid7 ’ s Tod Beardsley , referring to the seismic shift in the digital and IT landscape that has occurred as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic . For Beardsley , and indeed Rapid7 , this change will be analysed and understood in the broader context of cybersecurity , threat and risk .
The business , based in the US , offers a host of solutions that simplify the complex , and which advance security for enterprise customers with visibility , analytics and automation delivered through its insight cloud . Beardsley has been with Rapid7 for 10 years – a period that he concedes is “ a lifetime in a tech job ” – and today is responsible for software vulnerability research efforts , vulnerability disclosures , and contributing to the company ’ s data science-driven research projects .
Prior to this , as he explains , he was a technical engineering manager for the open source Metasploit project . “ Kids these days have it so
JULY 2020