Last updated at Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:41:38 GMT

Forrester recently released “The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services, Q1 2025,", highlighting the top 10 MDR providers out of more than 600 worldwide. While we’re honored to be recognized in such a competitive market, Rapid7’s designation underscores a fundamental difference in perspective: our customers consistently tell us that their top priority is cost-effective, comprehensive security operations at scale. They need contextually risk-aware attack surface visibility and protection without incurring exorbitant expenses, and that is precisely where we excel.

Our Mission: Monitor 100% Of What Matters—Affordably

The Wave places a premium on detection engineering and coverage breadth. We agree that those factors matter, but for most organizations, success lies in balancing coverage breadth and depth, seamless scalability, and cost constraints. You shouldn't ingest data for the sake of it—doing so drives spiraling costs and complexity. Instead, you need measured, focused monitoring of the specific data that impacts your risk profile.

What sets Rapid7 apart is our deeper understanding of the attack surface—we collect and integrate more data about the state of each customer’s environment than any other MDR provider. By honing in on meaningful, high-fidelity sources rather than chasing noise, our platform minimizes false positives and unnecessary overhead, ensuring you get the best possible visibility.

A Deeply Integrated Approach: The Key To Scalable Security

Modern security operations demand an ecosystem that brings together data from not only your endpoints, but also your networks, clouds, identities, and third-party tools—without a budget meltdown. Rapid7’s Command Platform was built precisely for this purpose, anchoring on our Next-Gen SIEM and a flexible architecture that is both data-rich and cost-conscious.

Uniquely, we deliver a fully integrated MDR experience from end to end:

  • Native SIEM Capabilities: Our platform correlates data across multiple attack surfaces, from the endpoint to the cloud, natively and in real time.
  • Deep Tech Synergy: The same models that power our vulnerability management and attack surface analytics fuel our MDR, so you gain actionable insights without juggling multiple, disconnected vendors.
  • In-Platform Partnership, Faster Resolution: Collaborate directly within the Command Platform with security veterans from our global SOC to augment internal teams and  accelerate investigations, reduce time to remediation, and build long-term resilience.

People + AI-Driven Efficiency: More Than Just Buzzwords

At Rapid7, AI isn’t a marketing tagline. We take a deliberate, responsible approach to AI and ML, building AI to power tangible improvements for our customers:

  • Faster, High-Fidelity Detections: Through machine learning on massive volumes of behavioral data, we pinpoint real threats quickly and effectively.
  • Enhanced Analyst Experience: Our AI-assisted investigations spotlight suspicious activity, giving our team immediate, context-rich information that saves you from chasing endless false positives.
  • Transparent Partnership:We don’t hide behind a “black box.” Our security analysts operate out of the same platform and share their findings with you in real time—creating a genuinely collaborative environment rather than an outsourced service.

Going Beyond The Wave: A Blueprint For Resilient Security

  • A True Partnership Model, Including Unlimited Incident Response: Our team acts as an extension of your own, giving you full-scale incident support at no extra cost. Security emergencies don’t respect budget approvals, so neither do we.
  • Unparalleled Insight Into The Attack Surface: We combine comprehensive visibility (both external and internal) with continual intelligence on attacker techniques, providing deeper context on potential exposures. Stay tuned for more announcements in this area.
  • Community Focus: Rapid7 proudly supports the broader cybersecurity community through key open-source projects like Metasploit and Velociraptor, keeping us close to innovative researchers and practitioners worldwide.

What’s Next: Continued MDR Innovation

We recognize some organizations may look at our placement in the Wave and wonder about Rapid7’s future roadmap. Rest assured, we’re just getting started:

  • Extended Cloud & Identity Threat Coverage: From AWS to Azure to Google Cloud—and major identity platforms—we’re broadening our detection capabilities to reflect attackers’ evolving tactics.
  • AI-Driven SOC Investments: Our upcoming releases significantly reduce alert noise and speed up investigations, leveraging context-based threat intelligence tailored to your specific environment.
  • Deeper Integrations and Partnerships: We’ll continue building alliances with leading technologies so your existing tools—alongside our Command Platform—deliver holistic security without the bloat.
  • See and Secure Your Attack Surface: Upcoming releases deepen our visibility into customer environments to secure the entire digital estate.

These enhancements begin rolling out next month, and we can’t wait to share how they further advance automated detection, rapid response, and proactive risk mitigation.

The Bottom Line: Effective, Affordable, and Scalable MDR

We prioritize what we know customers need. We’re focused on delivering a scalable, cost-effective MDR service that partners deeply with your team to optimize long-term resilience. If you need MDR that goes far beyond just the endpoint and beyond just outsourced alerting—and want to maintain your budget without sacrificing innovation—Rapid7 stands ready to transform your security operations.

Ready to explore how Rapid7 MDR can fit your needs?
Check out our Managed Threat Complete solution or reach out to our team to learn how we can help scale your success. Let’s move past the checkbox approach to MDR—together.