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Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study

Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study: Nu Age Managed Services

Introduction

This case study of Nu Age Managed Services is based on an October 2021 survey of InsightIDR customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges experienced before evaluating and ultimately selecting InsightIDR:

  • Difficulty identify cyber security threats on endpoints
  • Lacking SOC efficiency around detection and response
  • Lots of jumping between different tools; leveraging multiple tools to look at different security telemetry
  • Dealing with many blind spots across our environment

Use Case

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

  • Curated Threat Intelligence and Detections
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Centralized Log Management
  • Investigations and Incident Response
  • Threat Hunting

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
  • Accelerated time to contain threats on the endpoint

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with InsightIDR:

  • Confirmed that InsightIDR provided superior time to value, compared to similar tools used in the past.
  • Since they started using InsightIDR, they said that Threat detection and response is greatly improved.
  • The surveyed company agreed that InsightIDR helped them to:
    • Level up and advance security program
    • Spend more time on training and advancing security skills
    • Spend more time on innovative work / special projects
    • Greatly improve team efficiency

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

  • Team time to address an incident by 25-50%
  • Mean time to respond (MTTR) by 25-50%
  • Mean time to resolution or containment (MTTC) by 25-50%
  • Employee downtime as a result of incidents by 25-50%
  • Occurrence of false positives by 25-50%




About This Data

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