Rapid7
About
Rapid7 is a global cybersecurity company that provides AI-powered managed cybersecurity operations, including a unified platform called the Command Platform that integrates security data with AI, threat intelligence, and over 25 years of expertise. The company serves more than 11,500 customers worldwide with products and services spanning managed detection and response (MDR), exposure management, vulnerability management, SIEM, cloud security, and application security.
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Ideal Customer
- Rapid7's primary sweet spot is mid-market to large enterprise organizations, typically those with 1,000 to 5,000+ employees and dedicated or growing security teams.
- Mid-market firms (roughly 1,000–5,000 employees) represent the fastest-growing segment, often adopting Rapid7's managed services like MDR and vulnerability management to compensate for limited in-house SOC capabilities.
Key Differentiators
- Rapid7 differentiates itself through its unified Command Platform, which is one of the few cybersecurity platforms that spans exposure management, SIEM/XDR, MDR, and cloud security in a single integrated offering — a positioning Rapid7 claims makes it unique among competitors.
- The company holds 56 patents across proprietary analytics frameworks and AI, and its MDR service is notable for including unlimited incident response with one subscription.
Industries Served
- Rapid7 serves a broad cross-section of industries including financial services, healthcare, retail, technology, energy, manufacturing, government (federal, state and local), higher education, insurance, legal, media, and telecommunications.
- Its solutions are especially valued in regulated verticals that face complex compliance obligations, such as HIPAA-covered healthcare organizations, PCI-DSS-regulated financial services and retail firms, and DoD/DHS-adjacent defense contractors navigating CMMC requirements.
Service Coverage
- Rapid7 operates globally, serving customers in over 150 countries as of early 2026.
- The company is headquartered in Boston, MA, and maintains 15+ offices across North America (Boston, Austin, Tampa, Arlington), Europe (Belfast, Dublin, Galway, Reading UK, Munich, Prague), and Asia-Pacific (Melbourne, Tokyo, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Pune).
Partnerships
- Rapid7's most significant technology partnerships are with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.
- Rapid7 has been an AWS Advanced Tier Partner for over a decade, holds the AWS Security Competency designation, and is available on the AWS Marketplace with deep integration across 150+ AWS resource types.
Company Size & Ownership
- Rapid7 was founded in 2000 in Boston by Alan Matthews, Tas Giakouminakis, and Chad Loder, and went public on the Nasdaq (RPD) in 2015, raising approximately $103 million in its IPO.
- As of December 31, 2025, the company reported approximately 2,613 employees and full-year revenue of approximately $859.8 million, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20% from $411.5 million in 2020.
Compliance & Certifications
- As a publicly traded company, Rapid7 undergoes annual SOX audits and annual SOC 2 Type II audits to validate the effectiveness of its security controls.
- The company holds ISO 27001 certification (audited by Schellman), has achieved FedRAMP Authorization for its InsightGovCloud platform, and participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and UK Extension.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
20 offeringsAI-Powered Security Operations
Rapid7's AI-Powered Security Operations solution unifies detection, investigation, and response using human-centric AI to scale security expertise and enable preemptive defense. It connects activity across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS to eliminate blind spots, automatically correlates alerts and context in real time, and applies AI-driven workflows with structured evidence to help analysts make accurate, repeatable decisions at scale.
Continuous Red Teaming
Continuous Red Teaming is a managed exposure validation service where Rapid7 experts continuously test an organization's defenses to validate and confirm real exposures. It is designed to provide ongoing assessment of an organization's security posture by simulating attacker techniques against real environments.
Cyber GRC
Cyber GRC is a governance, risk, and compliance software solution built on live security context that connects controls, risks, vendors, evidence, and remediation into one workflow. It allows teams to map evidence across multiple frameworks without rebuilding proof manually for every audit, manage third-party risk alongside internal controls, and give executives clearer reporting on cyber risk decisions.
Exposure Command
Exposure Command is a hybrid exposure management platform that expands beyond traditional vulnerability management by incorporating attack surface context, cloud risk, and application risk in one platform. It provides adversary-aware prioritization using exploit likelihood, reachability, severity, and business context, along with built-in AI-powered remediation workflows and over 500 integrations across cloud, identity, ITSM, EDR, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
Incident Command
Incident Command is a next-generation, AI-powered SIEM that unifies logs, telemetry, and asset context from cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and hybrid environments into a single actionable view. It uses AI-driven behavioral detections, triage, and contextual enrichment to cut through alert fatigue, and includes SOAR automation, MITRE ATT&CK alignment, digital forensics and incident response capabilities, and AI-powered natural language log search across billions of records.
InsightCloudSec
InsightCloudSec is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that provides real-time, agentless visibility into multi-cloud environments to detect and manage cloud risk. It includes capabilities for sensitive data discovery, cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), Kubernetes security posture management, infrastructure-as-code scanning, cloud threat detection, and native no-code automation for compliance enforcement and remediation.
Managed Application Security
Managed Application Security is a service where Rapid7 helps organizations secure developer workflows by managing application security testing processes. It assists security teams in accurately and reliably assessing modern web applications and APIs for potential vulnerabilities.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Rapid7's Managed Detection and Response service provides 24x7 XDR monitoring, remediation, and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) delivered by expert analysts who extend a customer's security team. The service includes preemptive MDR that disrupts attackers across the kill chain and offers unlimited incident response with one subscription, covering the extended ecosystem.
Managed Vulnerability Management
Managed Vulnerability Management is a managed service where Rapid7 experts help organizations pinpoint and manage exposures across their environments. It combines the capabilities of Rapid7's vulnerability management technology with expert human guidance to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities that need remediation.
MDR for Enterprise
MDR for Enterprise is a customized managed detection and response offering designed to meet the specific protection requirements of large enterprise organizations. It delivers tailored security operations and expert-led response scaled to enterprise-level complexity and environments.
MDR for Microsoft
MDR for Microsoft is a managed detection and response service specifically designed to maximize and protect a customer's Microsoft investment by transforming Microsoft Defender signals into security outcomes. It extends Rapid7's expert-led MDR capabilities into Microsoft environments to improve detection and response coverage.
Metasploit
Metasploit is described as the world's most used penetration testing tool, fostered by Rapid7 as an open-source community project. It is used by security professionals to test and validate the exploitability of vulnerabilities in systems and networks.
Penetration Testing Services
Rapid7 Penetration Testing Services provide expert-led defense assessment to help organizations evaluate the strength of their security controls. Security professionals simulate real-world attacks to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and provide organizations with actionable findings to improve their defenses.
Project Sonar
Project Sonar is a tool that improves security through the active analysis of public networks. It enables organizations to understand their external exposure by scanning and analyzing internet-facing infrastructure.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM)
Rapid7's Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solution prioritizes exposures that attackers can actually exploit by combining vulnerability exploitability data, attacker-aware context, and remediation workflows that go beyond static CVSS scoring. It provides continuous visibility and risk scoring based on exploitability and asset criticality, and connects prioritization directly to remediation workflows across assets, systems, and owners.
Surface Command
Surface Command is an attack surface management solution that provides a continuous 360-degree view of internal and external assets across an organization's digital estate. It uses continuous monitoring and discovery to eliminate blind spots, uncover shadow IT and coverage gaps, and delivers business-critical native and third-party enrichment to prioritize remediation on exposures adversaries are most likely to exploit.
The Command Platform
The Rapid7 Command Platform is a unified, endpoint-to-cloud cybersecurity platform powered by real-time threat intelligence and AI-driven insights. It integrates security data across an organization's environment to unify visibility, predictive context, and real-time response, enabling security teams to manage vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate operations.
Threat Intelligence Platform (Intelligence Hub)
The Rapid7 Threat Intelligence Hub transforms raw threat data into curated, high-fidelity intelligence tailored to an organization's environment. It delivers high-confidence IOCs vetted by Rapid7 Intelligence, threat actor profiles and TTPs, a library of actively exploited CVEs, real-time visibility into campaigns targeting specific industries, and automated IOC decay modeling to reduce false positives, all fully integrated into the Command Platform.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor is an endpoint monitoring, digital forensics, and cyber response platform fostered by Rapid7 as an open-source community project. It enables security professionals to monitor endpoints, perform digital forensic investigations, and respond to cyber incidents.
Vulnerability & Exploit Database
The Vulnerability and Exploit Database is a curated, searchable database of vetted software vulnerabilities and exploits covering thousands of CVEs. It enables security professionals to research known vulnerabilities and understand exploitation details to inform their security programs.
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