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Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study

Rapid7 InsightIDR Case Study: Medium Enterprise Computer Software Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise computer software company is based on a March 2022 survey of Rapid7 InsightIDR customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Rapid7 InsightIDR is a great tool that has helped us gather all of our resources into one place for analysis.”

Challenges

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

  • Too many false positive alerts from current detection tools; too much noise
  • Difficulty identifying 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
  • Challenged to satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements around log retention and monitoring

Use Case

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

  • User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)
  • Centralized Log Management
  • Compliance Reporting
  • Threat Hunting
  • Deception Technology

This organization leverages InsightIDR as both their SIEM and XDR.

They have deployed the Rapid7 Insight Agent across 51% – 75% of the assets in their environment. Outcomes realized by leveraging the Insight Agent with InsightIDR:

  • Improved endpoint visibility
  • Accelerated time to contain threats on the endpoint

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Rapid7 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 Rapid7 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
  • Reduce team burnout
  • Improve work-life balance
  • Improve employee retention

Since adopting Rapid7 InsightIDR, they stated that they were able to reduce:

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




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Rapid7 by TechValidate.

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