Rapid7
By Rapid7, Inc.
Rapid7 is a cybersecurity company offering a suite of products for vulnerability management, application security, and security operations, most notably InsightVM for vulnerability management and the open-source Metasploit Framework for…
Definition
Rapid7 is a cybersecurity company offering a suite of products for vulnerability management, application security, and security operations, most notably InsightVM for vulnerability management and the open-source Metasploit Framework for penetration testing.
Overview
Rapid7 provides an integrated security portfolio built around its Insight cloud platform, which unifies vulnerability management (InsightVM), detection and response (InsightIDR), application security testing (InsightAppSec), and cloud security posture management under a shared data lake and analytics layer. This lets security teams correlate vulnerability data with real-time threat detection rather than treating them as separate workflows. Rapid7 is also the maintainer of Metasploit, the widely used open-source penetration testing framework, which gives the company deep credibility in the offensive security community and informs how its defensive products model attacker behavior. Competing directly with platforms like Qualys and Tenable, Rapid7 differentiates itself through its combination of vulnerability management and detection-and-response capabilities in one platform, along with a managed detection and response (MDR) service for organizations that want outsourced monitoring.
Key Features
- InsightVM for continuous vulnerability management and risk prioritization
- InsightIDR for detection and response, correlating logs and endpoint data
- Maintainer of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework
- InsightAppSec for dynamic application security testing
- Unified Insight cloud platform combining multiple security functions
- Managed detection and response (MDR) service offering
- Attacker-informed risk scoring drawing on offensive security research