Set up Rapid7 connector

C1 provides identity governance for Rapid7. Integrate your Rapid7 instance with C1 for unified visibility and governance over user access.

Availability

This connector works with Rapid7 products available on the Command Platform API (formerly Insight Platform API). Products that use a separate local API — such as the InsightVM console — are not supported.

Capabilities

Resource	Sync	Provision
Account
Organization
Role
User Group

The Rapid7 connector supports automatic account provisioning on the Command Platform. New accounts receive an invitation email and set their own password.

Connector actions

Connector actions are custom capabilities that extend C1 automations with app-specific operations. You can use connector actions in the Perform connector action automation step.

Action name	Additional fields	Description
update_user	user_id (string, required), plus any of first name, last name, or preferred timezone (all optional)	Updates a Rapid7 account’s first name, last name, or preferred timezone. Omitted fields are left unchanged.

Rapid7 accounts cannot be temporarily disabled on the Command Platform. To revoke access, delete the account; the same user can be re-invited later. Role and product access on a user are managed in the Rapid7 admin UI.

Additional functionality:

• Account creation via invitation email
• Account deletion
• Account profile updates via the update_user action

Gather Rapid7 configuration information

Configuring the connector requires you to pass in information from Rapid7. Gather these configuration details before you move on.

A user with administrator permissions in Rapid7 must generate the API key. The connector requires a personal API key (user key), not an organization API key. Organization keys only provide access to Rapid7 capability APIs and will cause the connector to fail with permission errors.

Here’s the information you’ll need:

• API Key
• Region

See the Rapid7 docs for information on how to acquire credentials: View the documentation

Configure the Rapid7 connector

To complete this task, you’ll need:

• The Connector Administrator or Super Administrator role in C1
• Access to the set of Rapid7 configuration information gathered by following the instructions above

Cloud-hosted

Follow these instructions to use a built-in, no-code connector hosted by C1.

1. In C1, navigate to Integrations > Connectors and click Add connector.

2. Search for Rapid7 and click Add.

3. Choose how to set up the new Rapid7 connector:

   • Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with C1)

   • Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)

   • Create a new managed app

4. Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of C1 users. Setting multiple owners is allowed.

   If you choose someone else, C1 will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.

5. Click Next.

6. Find the Settings area of the page and click Edit.

7. Enter the configuration information from the previous section.

8. Click Save.

9. The connector’s label changes to Syncing, followed by Connected. You can view the logs to ensure that information is syncing.

Done. Your Rapid7 connector is now pulling access data into C1.

Self-hosted

Follow these instructions to use the Rapid7 connector, hosted and run in your own environment.

When running in service mode on Kubernetes, a self-hosted connector maintains an ongoing connection with C1, automatically syncing and uploading data at regular intervals. This data is immediately available in the C1 UI for access reviews and access requests.

Resources

Contact C1’s support team to download the latest version of the connector.

Step 1: Set up a new Rapid7 connector

1. In C1, navigate to Integrations > Connectors > Add connector.

2. Search for Baton and click Add.

3. Choose how to set up the new Rapid7 connector:

   • Add the connector to a currently unmanaged app (select from the list of apps that were discovered in your identity, SSO, or federation provider that aren’t yet managed with C1)

   • Add the connector to a managed app (select from the list of existing managed apps)

   • Create a new managed app

4. Set the owner for this connector. You can manage the connector yourself, or choose someone else from the list of C1 users. Setting multiple owners is allowed.

   If you choose someone else, C1 will notify the new connector owner by email that their help is needed to complete the setup process.

5. Click Next.

6. In the Settings area of the page, click Edit.

7. Click Rotate to generate a new Client ID and Secret.

   Carefully copy and save these credentials. We’ll use them in Step 2.

Step 2: Create Kubernetes configuration files

Create two Kubernetes manifest files for your Rapid7 connector deployment:

Secrets configuration

# baton-rapid7-secrets.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: baton-rapid7-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
  # C1 credentials
  BATON_CLIENT_ID: <C1 client ID>
  BATON_CLIENT_SECRET: <C1 client secret>

  # Rapid7 config
  BATON_RAPID7_API_KEY: <Personal (not org) API Key for Rapid7>
  BATON_RAPID7_REGION: <Region for Rapid7 (e.g. us, us2, eu, au) See: https://docs.rapid7.com/insight/product-apis#supported-regions) and check your org settings to find your region>

See the connector’s README or run --help to see all available configuration flags and environment variables.

Deployment configuration

# baton-rapid7.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: baton-rapid7
  labels:
    app: baton-rapid7
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: baton-rapid7
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: baton-rapid7
        baton: true
        baton-app: rapid7
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: baton-rapid7
        image: public.ecr.aws/conductorone/baton-rapid7:latest
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        env:
        - name: BATON_HOST_ID
          value: baton-rapid7
        envFrom:
        - secretRef:
            name: baton-rapid7-secrets

Step 3: Deploy the connector

1. Create a namespace in which to run C1 connectors (if desired), then apply the secret config and deployment config files.

2. Check that the connector data uploaded correctly. In C1, click Apps. On the Managed apps tab, locate and click the name of the application you added the rapid7 connector to. rapid7 data should be found on the Entitlements and Accounts tabs.

Done. Your Rapid7 connector is now pulling access data into C1.