Case Study: University of Technology Sydney achieves proactive cybersecurity and improved visibility with Rapid7 InsightVM and InsightIDR

InsightVM and InsightIDR Empower University of Technology Sydney to Be Proactive with Cybersecurity

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), one of Australia’s largest universities with over 40,000 students and thousands of servers, desktops and IPs, faced rising ransomware, phishing and state‑sponsored threats. The IT security team aimed to move from a reactive posture to proactive vulnerability and threat management by refreshing its vulnerability management and SIEM capabilities to improve visibility, prioritization and reduce operational workload.

UTS deployed Rapid7 InsightVM, InsightIDR and AppSpider. InsightVM’s dashboards and asset criticality tags improved communication and patch prioritization, while the lightweight Insight Agent simplified deployments. The SaaS InsightIDR delivered rapid setup, new threat visibility, built‑in file‑integrity capabilities and fast event correlation (hundreds of millions of events analyzed in minutes), cutting daily ticket volume, reducing overhead and freeing the small security team to focus on high‑priority tasks—with local Rapid7 support smoothing adoption.

University of Technology Sydney

Peter Degotardi

Cybersecurity Manager