Integrating Luminar Threat Intelligence with Rapid7 InsightConnect (SOAR)

Introduction

Cybersecurity teams today face a constant wave of new threats across the web and dark web. Luminar Threat Intelligence, an AI-powered external CTI platform, continuously scans the open, deep, and dark web to identify emerging Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), leaked credentials, and detailed threat reports.

By integrating Luminar with Rapid7 InsightConnect SOAR platform, security teams can automate threat intelligence ingestion, detection, and remediation across their ecosystem. This integration enhances threat visibility, improves SOC efficiency, and reduces manual effort by using STIX-formatted CTI feeds that can be parsed, correlated, and acted upon automatically.

Key Benefits

• Reduced Alert Fatigue: By using Luminar’s threat of intelligence to prioritize Luminar’s incidents, security teams can focus on the highest-priority threats. ‍
• Faster Response Times: Automation via InsightConnect enables rapid, consistent response to threats that would otherwise require manual correlation and action. ‍
• Comprehensive Visibility: The combined solutions offer defense across the entire digital estate, from network to email and cloud, with the ability to correlate internal anomalies with external threat landscapes.

What is Luminar Threat Intelligence?

LUMINAR is an AI-driven external threat intelligence platform that provides comprehensive visibility into an organization’s threat landscape. It unifies critical threat intelligence capabilities into a single solution, delivering timely and actionable insights to help security teams prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Designed for national SOCs and sectors like critical infrastructure, telecom, finance, transportation, and healthcare, LUMINAR offers rapid access to targeted threat data and high-quality intelligence for robust cyber defense.

Key Features of Luminar Threat Intelligence

• Holistic Solution: Integrates cyber threat intelligence (CTI), digital risk protection (DRP), and external attack surface management (EASM) into one unified platform, setting a new standard in threat protection.
• ‍Advanced Generative AI (GenAI) Capabilities: Provides unparalleled insights into threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures. ‍
• Robust Threat Intelligence: Offers brand protection, fraud monitoring, executive protection and deep/dark web monitoring. ‍
• Attack Surface Intelligence: Enables external asset discovery, with risk scoring and vulnerability prioritization. ‍
• Actionable Intelligence: Ensures rapid response and effective threat mitigation.

What is Rapid7 InsightConnect?

Rapid7 InsightConnect is an automation and orchestration solution designed to streamline security operations. It enables security teams to connect tools, systems, and processes to reduce manual workloads while improving incident response efficiency.

Key Features of InsightConnect

• Pre-built integrations with popular security platforms/products.
• Drag-and-drop workflow builder for automation.  
• Real-time orchestration of alerts and investigations.
• Collaboration tools for SOC and IR teams.

Integrating Luminar Threat Intelligence with Rapid7 InsightConnect

Integrating Luminar Threat Intelligence with Rapid7 InsightConnect enables automated ingestion of Luminar threat data directly into InsightConnect workflows. This streamlines threat validation and response, allowing SOC teams to operate with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Installation steps:

• Download the Luminar plugin from Rapid7 Extensions.
• Configure the plugin with the required credentials: Base URL, Account ID, Client ID, and Client Secret.
• Set up workflow triggers to retrieve IOCs, leaked records, and cyberfeeds.

Use Cases of Luminar Threat Intelligence and InsightConnect Integration

1. SOC Threat Hunting Automation

Security teams can schedule Luminar IOC feeds to run automatically, delivering results for automated threat-hunting workflows. For example, SOC engineers can use these IOCs to compare against SIEM, EDR, and firewall data. This allows the SOC team to proactively detect and respond to threats, significantly reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.

2. Automated Alert Enrichment and Correlation

When a suspicious cyber observable is ingested from the feeds, SOC analysts can rapidly assess whether any assets or related entities in the environment are impacted and initiate the appropriate remediation actions.

3. Leaked Credential Monitoring

By integrating Luminar’s leaked records feed, security teams can automatically check corporate accounts against recent data breaches. The workflow identifies potentially compromised accounts, enabling SOC analysts to generate alerts and initiate automated actions such as password resets or access revocations, thereby reducing exposure risk.

4. Cyberfeeds-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization

When a vulnerability is identified and its CVE appears in Cyberfeeds, SOC analysts can assess its relevance to internal assets, determine exploitation likelihood, prioritize remediation, and trigger automated alerts.

Best Practices for Optimized Luminar–InsightConnect Workflows

1. Use InsightConnect Plugin Tools

Leverage Rapid7 SDK utilities, such as the InsightConnect plugin runtime and linters, to validate schemas, formats, and compliance with Rapid7 development standards.

2. Secure API secrets

Never hard-code credentials. Store all API keys securely in the InsightConnect Connection Manager to ensure better security and compliance.

3. Validate with sample data

Before deploying production, test the connector with Luminar’s data. Verify JSON outputs across workflow steps to ensure correct parsing and execution.

4. Enable Robust Logging and Monitoring

Enable InsightConnect logging to capture API requests and data transformations. Logs are essential for troubleshooting performance issues and identifying data anomalies.

5. Stay Updated with Platform Change

Regularly review Luminar API documentation and Rapid7 SDK updates. Keep connector versions aligned with API changes to maintain compatibility, stability, and performance.

Conclusion

Integrating Luminar Threat Intelligence with Rapid7 InsightConnect enables faster, smarter threat response. With automated workflows, your SOC can move from reactive to proactive operations, reducing manual effort while improving accuracy and response speed.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. What is the benefit of integrating Luminar Threat Intelligence with Rapid7 InsightConnect?

It automates the ingestion of threat intelligence feeds, allowing security teams to make faster, more accurate decisions while reducing manual effort.

2. Can I customize workflows in InsightConnect using Luminar data?

Yes, Rapid7 InsightConnect allows full customization of workflows, so you can define automated actions based on Luminar’s intelligence feeds.

3. How does this integration improve response times?

By ingesting Luminar results, you can create workflows that trigger actions such as IP blocking or alert prioritization, reducing manual steps, and accelerating incident resolution.

4. What are the security prerequisites for this integration?

You’ll need valid Luminar API credentials, appropriate permissions within Rapid7 InsightConnect, and adherence to your organization’s security policies.