How Security Leaders Cut Through Complexity to Drive Better Outcomes

This Rapid7 collection contains multiple blog posts (Metasploit wrap-ups, product/CTEM updates, summit takeaways, and a Palo Alto advisory). Key themes: increasing exploitation activity (vulnerability exploitation surpassing social engineering, many zero-click/network-facing bugs), practical security leadership and SOC/MDR guidance, new Surface Command dashboard features for ASM, and several disclosed/weaponized vulnerabilities — notably an authentication-bypass in Palo Alto PAN-OS (CVE-2026-0265, vendor-assigned High). The Metasploit posts enumerate multiple exploited/weaponized CVEs across a