TechValidate Research on Rapid7

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469 Customers Surveyed

3,920 Data Points Collected

127 Published TechFacts

8 Published Charts

59 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Rapid7 InsightIDR Customer Research

Driving Tangible Results with Rapid7 InsightIDR

Since adopting InsightIDR by how much were you able to reduce the following?

50% or more 25-50% 10-25% 0-10%

The team time to address an incident
The mean time to respond (MTTR)
The mean time to resolution or containment (MTTC)
Employee downtime as a result of incidents
Occurance of false positives

Rapid7 InsightIDR Customer Research

Top Challenges that Led to Rapid7 InsightIDR Adoption

Which of the following business challenges were you experiencing that led you to evaluate and ultimately select Rapid7 InsightIDR?

Dealing with many blind spots across our environment
62%
Difficulty identifying cyber security threats on endpoints
50%
Lots of jumping between different tools; leveraging multiple tools to look at different security telemetry
36%
Lacking SOC efficiency around detection and response
34%
Challenged to satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements around log retention and monitoring
26%
Too many false positive alerts from current detection tools; too much noise
26%

Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study

Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study: Critical Software

Introduction

This case study of Criticalsoftware is based on a March 2022 survey of Rapid7 InsightIDR customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges experienced before evaluating and ultimately selecting Rapid7 InsightIDR:

  • Too many false positive alerts from current detection tools; too much noise
  • Lacking SOC efficiency around detection and response

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Rapid7 InsightIDR that the surveyed company uses:

  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Centralized Log Management
  • Compliance Reporting
  • Investigations and Incident Response

This organization leverages InsightIDR as both their SIEM and XDR.

They have deployed the Rapid7 Insight Agent across 76% – 99% of the assets in their environment. Outcomes realized by leveraging the Insight Agent with InsightIDR:

  • Improved endpoint visibility
  • Accelerated detection of targeted or compromised assets

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Rapid7 InsightIDR:

  • Since they started using InsightIDR, they said that Threat detection and response has improved.

The surveyed company agreed that Rapid7 InsightIDR helped them to:

  • Level up and advance security program
  • Spend more time on training and advancing security skills
  • Greatly improve team efficiency
  • Reduce team burnout
  • Improve work-life balance

Since adopting InsightIDR, they stated that they were able to reduce:

  • Mean time to respond (MTTR) by 25-50%
  • Mean time to resolution or containment (MTTC) by 25-50%

Rapid7 InsightIDR Customer Statistic

92% of surveyed organizations said that since they started using InsightIDR, Threat detection and response has improved.

92%

Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services & Solutions Case Study

Medium Enterprise Healthcare Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise healthcare company is based on a February 2022 survey of Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services & Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Without Rapid7 MDR, our team would not be able to catch vulnerabilities or breaches as quickly.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services & Solutions:

  • They decided to adopt a managed detection and response solution because:
    • They had no existing D&R Program
    • They didn’t have a large enough team to do it in-house
    • They didn’t have the resources/budget to do it in-house
  • Confirmed that prior to implementing Rapid7 MDR, they had approximately 3 dedicated FTEs as part of their organization’s in-house cybersecurity team.

Use Case

  • The criteria most important in their decision to select Rapid7 MDR was:
    • Team augmentation
    • Investigation capabilities
    • Containment/Incident response
    • Proactive threat hunting
    • Cybersecurity expertise
    • Forensics

Results

  • Aspects of Rapid7 MDR most impactful to their organizations’ security success:
    • 24 × 7 × 365 SOC team
    • Partnering with a Rapid7 Security Advisor
    • Automated attack containment provided by MDR Active Response
    • Ability to pivot to engage Rapid7 in Incident Response if breached
  • They said “Our detection and response program has substantially improved since partnering with Rapid7 MDR.”
  • How they rate the following capabilities based on experience with Rapid7 MDR:
    • SOC Expertise: Excellent
    • Technology: Excellent
    • Threat detection: Excellent
    • Incident Response: Excellent
    • Reporting: Excellent
    • Customer Advisor Guidance: Excellent
  • Since we’ve implemented Rapid7 MDR, our team has:
    • Improved their Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)
    • Improved their Mean Time To Respond (MTTR)
    • Received less false positives
    • Had more time to focus on other security initiatives
    • Had more time to focus on professional development/skills
    • Improved their coverage outside the 5×8 work week
    • Have improved our overall security posture

Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services & Solutions Customer Testimonial

It has been great to have a team working behind the scenes when an event occurs. We are able to focus on onsite response, while the MDR Team is looking for root cause and getting us the information to contain the event.

Security administrator/analyst, Medium Enterprise Healthcare Company



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