Rapid7 has been honored by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a 5-Star Award in the 2025 CRN Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is an essential resource for solution providers seeking vendor partner programs that match their business goals and deliver high partner value.
Recognition of Rapid7’s continued commitment to channel
The 5-Star Award is an elite recognition given to companies that have built their partner programs on the key elements needed to nurture lasting, profitable, and successful channel partnerships
When evaluating potential collaborations with IT vendors, Partners must carefully consider the comprehensive support and resources offered through vendors’ partner programs. Key program components, including financial incentives, sales and marketing support, training and certification, and technical assistance – can significantly distinguish vendors such as Rapid7. These elements are instrumental in enhancing the long-term growth and profitability of their partnerships.
For the 2025 Partner Program Guide, the CRN research team evaluated vendors based on program requirements and offerings such as partner training and education, pre- and post-sales support, marketing programs and resources, technical support, and communication. Rapid7 acknowledges the significance of these critical program features and is pleased to have integrated all of these elements into the 2025 PACT program.
Aligned with our recent program launch
This prestigious recognition closely follows the introduction of the enhanced 2025 PACT Partner Program. Rapid7 recognizes that in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape, partners face mounting pressure to have access to the tools, training, and resources necessary to meet the expanding security demands of their clients. Rapid7 is strategically positioned to fulfill these essential partner needs, having launched the revitalized Partner Program PACT 2025. This comprehensive program is designed to represent and support our expanding community of partners – encompassing diverse business models – all unified under a cohesive framework with competitive benefits and partnership support.
Being featured in the 2025 CRN Partner Program Guide highlights the dedication these technology vendors have to evolving with solution providers, driving innovation, and supporting mutual success,” said Jennifer Follett, VP, U.S. Content and Executive Editor, CRN, at The Channel Company. “This critical annual project empowers solution providers to identify vendors that are committed to enhancing their partner programs and meeting the always-changing business needs of the channel and end customers. The guide provides deep insight into the distinctive value of each partner program so solution providers can make strategic partnership decisions with confidence.”
Future outlook: Sustained focus and commitment
Our dedication to our partners is unwavering, as we continue to engage collaboratively with our global partner network. We are committed to understanding the needs of our partners as well as addressing business challenges and opportunities.
We will continue to develop strategies that improve the ease and efficiency of our business engagements, ensuring exceptional experiences and exemplifying our partner-first culture. Our programs are developed in collaboration with our partners, and maintaining a continuous feedback loop is essential as we work to evolve and enhance our offerings.
For the third consecutive year, Rapid7’s Alex Page has been honored as a CRN Channel Chief, a testament to his unwavering commitment to driving growth, fostering innovation, and strengthening our global channel partnerships. CRN’s annual Channel Chiefs list showcases the top leaders throughout the IT channel ecosystem who go above and beyond to ensure mutual success with their partners and customers. This recognition highlights Alex’s remarkable leadership as well as the significant strides his team has made in collaboration with Rapid7’s channel ecosystem.
A philosophy that drives success
Alex’s channel philosophy is simple, yet powerful: Focus matters. By identifying and investing in the partners who best align with Rapid7’s goals and have the ability to deliver exceptional customer success, Alex and his team ensure a meaningful and impactful collaboration. This focused approach has not only delivered outstanding mutual results, it has also deepened the appreciation and trust we share with our partners.
Innovating for the future
An example of an impactful initiative led by Alex and his team in 2024 was Rapid7’s partnership with Comcast. This collaboration combines the advanced SecOps technology of Rapid7’s Command Platform with 24/7 SOC capabilities to provide superior threat detection and prevention for Comcast’s small, medium, and large enterprise customers. Through this innovative partnership, we have expanded our partner ecosystem as well as set a new standard for delivering world-class security solutions.
Looking ahead to 2025
As the channel landscape evolves, Alex and his team — supported by the greater Rapid7 organization — are doubling down on three key areas in 2025:
Relationship focused approach – By focusing on the partners who will solve our customers’ problems, and forming deep relationships with each of them, rather than aiming for a breadth of partners with shallow connections, we will jointly acquire more customers and enable their long-term success.
A unified partner experience – Many of Rapid7’s partners don’t fit cleanly into a single bucket. They’re not just a channel partner or just a service provider; they are many things to their customers. In 2025 and beyond, partners will be able to engage with Rapid7 and their customers in a variety of ways.
Technical enablement and specialization – Partners are making it clear that they need to empower their technical resources more than ever before to meet the evolving security needs of their customers. By prioritizing technical enablement and helping our partners specialize in the many capabilities where Rapid7 technologies lead the market, we will ultimately drive even higher rates of customer satisfaction together, which leads to positive business outcomes for the customer, the partner, and Rapid7.
Shared growth through collaboration
Learn more about sales, technology, and partnerships with Rapid7 by visiting our Partners page.
3 Rapid7 Offices Included in Built In’s “Best Places to Work” Lists
Built In has announced that Rapid7 is being honored in the 2025 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, Rapid7 earned recognition for three office locations: Austin, Boston, and Arlington (Washington DC). The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, and honors both remote-first employers as well as companies in large tech markets across the U.S.
“When employees join Rapid7, they quickly see how much we care for our people and their experience with us. Through competitive compensation packages, inclusive benefits, and a variety of location specific perks and amenities, we’re committed to ensuring our people are supported in doing their most impactful and creative work.” says Christina Luconi, Chief People Officer at Rapid7.
Lists where Rapid7 offices were featured include:
100 Best Large Places to Work Austin
100 Best Large Places to Work Boston
100 Best Large Places to Work Washington DC (for our Arlington office)
100 Best Places to Work (all sizes) Washington DC (for our Arlington office)
Built In determines the winners of Best Places to Work using company data about compensation and benefits. To reflect the benefits candidates are searching for more frequently on Built In, the program also weighs criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI and other people-first cultural offerings.
“Being recognized as a Best Place to Work is a testament to these companies’ commitment to building a workplace where individuals and innovation thrive,” says Built In CEO and Founder,Maria Christopoulos Katris. “At Built In, we understand that great companies are powered by great teams, and this achievement showcases their dedication to fostering a culture of growth, inclusivity, and excellence. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor.”
Rapid7 believes that when it comes to creating an exceptional workplace, winning an award doesn’t mean the job is done. Our Workplace Experience and People Strategy teams embrace our core value of ‘Never Done’ by evaluating and evolving our offerings, so our people can build the career experience of a lifetime. Awards like these are one of many components we leverage to ensure we are on the right track, and we look forward to the continued evolution of our workplaces in 2025 and beyond.
Want to learn more about working at Rapid7? Click here for our careers site.
On January 7, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released their 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), where Rapid7 earned a top score of 100.
The CEI is the nation’s leading benchmark for LGBTQ+ workforce equality, evaluating policies and practices in areas such as non-discrimination, equitable benefits, inclusive cultures, and corporate social responsibility. With this score, Rapid7 is recognized as a leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion.
This recognition reflects Rapid7’s core value; and our commitment to creating a dynamic workplace where all people can build a rewarding career. Our core value ‘Bring You’ is an invitation for everyone to embrace their uniqueness and bring their true selves to the workplace. We know that fostering a culture of inclusion enables people to be more creative and generate innovative ideas – essential skills when working in the field of cybersecurity. Additionally, we recognize that our work in this space is truly ‘Never Done’. We continuously evaluate, optimize, and seek feedback on programs and practices that support diversity, equity, and inclusion across the business. We’re proud of this recognition, and will continue to work towards building and maintaining a workplace where all people have access to the tools, resources, and communities that enable them to feel seen and valued, so they can make an incredible impact through their work.
In consideration for this recognition, the CEI examined Rapid7’s practices and policies against four core pillars:
• Non-discrimination policies across business entities
• Equitable benefits for LGBTQ+ workers and their families
• Supporting an inclusive culture; and,
• Corporate social responsibility
“HRC Equality Index recognition reflects a gold standard, one that ensures employees—regardless of their lived experience—have equitable access to benefits and are treated inclusively. We alignwith the HRC Equality Index standard, as we believe it fosters an environment that enables employees to bring their authentic selves to work. By cultivating an environment that nutures this dynamic, we empower our people to perform at their best and contribute meaningfully to the success of our business.
Additionally, achieving recognition on the HRC Equality Index underscores our broader commitment to being an employer who strives to reflect the global community we seek to secure. This milestone also highlights how essential equity is to our mission. Equity is a key part of the equation, and it is vital that we never lose sight of its importance.
I am incredibly proud that we are included on the index this year. This achievement reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering innovation, belonging, and excellence in all that we do.”
In addition to offering equitable benefits, Rapid7’s employee resource groups provide opportunities for people to come together around shared experiences. The Pride community provides space for LGBTQ+ employees and their allies to raise visibility and provide support through various virtual and in-office events. These initiatives include hosting external speakers, facilitating open discussions, and organizing celebrations.
To learn more about Rapid7 as a workplace, visit our careers page today.
On Friday, November 15th, Rapid7 was awarded ‘Excellence in Workplace Health and Wellbeing’ at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards. This award recognizes technology companies in Belfast that prioritize employee well-being.
At Rapid7, we believe that the best ideas and solutions come from diverse, multi-faceted teams. By supporting our people with programs that enhance their well-being and quality of life, we create an environment where they can continue to have rewarding career experiences and make an incredible impact on our business. Our programs go beyond just taking care of people when they are sick. Instead, we look to increase their overall quality of life with unique initiatives and offerings that support both physical and mental health and wellness.
Our award submission was broken down into three key areas where we offer unique benefits that make us leaders in our field. These areas included benefit offerings, physical health and well-being, and mental health and well-being.
Benefit Offerings
Rapid7 is proud to offer unique and competitive benefits to employees and their families. One example is our neurodiversity coverage. Employees at Rapid7, and their family members, have access to specialists for evaluations, screenings, and treatment programs. Appointments and services that would otherwise take months or years are able to happen within weeks.
As part of our health benefit program, once a year, our company participates in a global health and well-being challenge. This is not your typical ‘steps’ challenge, but instead a comprehensive initiative encompassing physical activity, meditation, and mindfulness, designed to build connections across Rapid7 teams.
Physical health and well-being
Our cycle-to-work scheme allows employees to set aside a salary sacrifice to purchase a new bicycle. There is no maximum limit so our employees are often able to select high-end models at an affordable rate. Employees drop in and out of the program as they wish, and this year we have 16 employees saving up to get their new bikes.
For those who prefer a gym or fitness classes, our Chichester street office building is equipped with a full service gym featuring cardio and weight training equipment, as well as a yoga and group fitness studio. The fitness studio has a variety of virtual program on demand, many of which can be completed in just 20 minutes, making it easy for employees to fit in a quick break during their day.
Mental health and wellbeing
AwareNI is a local organization that we’ve been proud to partner with. We participate in their mood matters program, bringing mental health awareness and training to employees across Rapid7. However, what is most unique is our on-site mental health first aiders. We partner with AwareNI to train employees to be on-site mental health first aiders, giving employees a resource in the office to go to if they are experiencing a mental health crisis. As mental health first aiders, these employees are equipped with the skills and knowledge to guide and support colleagues experiencing a mental health-related crisis.
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We show up every day to keep our 11,000+ customers around the world protected from the latest threats. This requires us to build a dynamic workplace where innovation and collaboration thrive. Taking care of our people is a critical first step, and we’re honored to have been recognized as a leader in this space. To learn more, please visit our careers site at careers.rapid7.com.
We’re thrilled to announce Cloudflare’s worldwide 2023 Channel Partner Award winners! Partners are crucial to Cloudflare’s success, extending the solutions and support that customers need to control application complexity, reduce cyber risk, and cut costs, all with a high level of customer satisfaction.
PowerUP partners first
This year, we again received CRN’s highest accolade of a 5-star ranking for our Partner Program. Through our expanded Cloudflare PowerUP Partner Program, we’re ensuring Cloudflare’s partnerships and alliances continue delivering strong results to joint customers across sectors worldwide. We’re focused on making it easier for our partners to work with us and grow their business with us. The Cloudflare team is all about helping partners:
Be innovative by transforming how customers connect, protect, and build with Cloudflare security, speed, programmability, and resilience.
Increase profitability by growing revenue and delivering more value at scale to rapidly grow business and expand reach.
Accelerate GTM by benefiting from sales and marketing support, streamlined processes, and transparent pricing to close deals quickly.
From comprehensive training through Cloudflare University to expert support across departments, partners are equipped to drive digital transformation and modernize IT infrastructures for their customers in a competitive market.
Leaders who understand the power of partnership
It’s been a thrilling start to my tenure as Cloudflare’s Chief Partner Officer to watch remarkable growth and partner success. Our team has amplified opportunities, especially in the rapidly expanding area of secure access service edge (SASE), and our channel strategy has already demonstrated impressive results.
The overwhelmingly positive feedback from our partners underscores the strength of Cloudflare’s technology and our dedication to serving our partners. With substantial investments in the partner community, streamlined processes, and a focus on AI integration, together we are poised to drive significant growth and innovation.
Congratulations to our partners’ outstanding contributions and achievements
This year’s Cloudflare partner award winners have exemplified excellence and innovation in collaborating with Cloudflare. Their dedication and success highlight the transformative potential of the channel and our collaboration.
Americas partner awards
Technology Services Distributor of the Year: AVANT Communications Honors the top-performing technology services distributor that has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure sales and growth revenue streams.
Partner of the Year: GuidePoint Security Honors the top-performing partner that has demonstrated phenomenal sales achievement in 2023.
Growth Partners of the Year: CDW and Defy Security Honors the partners who made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
Technical Excellence Award (Pre-Sales): Adapture Honors the partner company who demonstrated great knowledge and expertise in leading the customer’s Cloudflare pre-sales and proof of concept (POC) experience.
Partner SE Champion of the Year: Nyron Samaroo (CDW Canada) & Deepika Nath (Kyndryl) Honors the individual partner Sales Engineers (SEs) who have demonstrated depth of knowledge and expertise in Cloudflare solutions and went above and beyond in delivering the Cloudflare experience for our joint customers.
Global Systems Integrator (GSI) Partner of the Year: Accenture Honors the top-performing GSI partner.
Latin America awards
Technology Services Distributor of the Year: TD SYNNEX (LATAM) Honors the top-performing technology services distributor that has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure sales and growth revenue streams.
Partner of the Year: Honors the partner who, although new to the Cloudflare Partner Network in 2023, has already made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
IntegraTEC (LATAM)
NeoSecure by SEK (Nola/Sola)
Cipher (Brazil)
Xenergix (Mexico)
Certification Champion of the Year: Tripla (Brazil) This award honors the partner whose teams earned the highest total number of Cloudflare certifications during 2023.
APJC partner awards
Distributor of the Year: Dicker Data Limited Honors the top performing distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure sales and growth revenue streams.
Service Delivery Partner of the Year: Master Concept (Hong Kong) Ltd. Honors the top-performing services solution provider.
Partner of the Year: Centcloud Technologies Limited Honors the partner who, although new to the Cloudflare Partner Network in 2023, has already made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
Customer Win of the Year: Megazone Cloud Corporation Honors the outstanding achievement of a partner who secured a significant customer deal through exceptional collaboration and innovation.
New Partner Win of the Year: Techdirect Pte Ltd Honors the partner who has brought in the largest, most strategic deal and deployed a comprehensive end-to-end security, performance, and reliability solution to a customer.
Most Valuable Player of the Year: Omni Intelligent Services, Inc. Honors top partner achievers who not only provided stellar service to our joint customers but also built new business value by tapping into the power of networks, relationships, and ecosystems.
Technical Excellence Award (Pre-Sales): Airowire Networks PVT LTD Honors the partner company whose SEs demonstrated great knowledge and expertise in leading the customer’s Cloudflare pre-sales and POC experience.
Marketing Champion of the Year: Softdebut Co., Ltd Honors the partner company that demonstrated outstanding collaboration and business outcomes in marketing Cloudflare solutions.
Partner SE Champion of the Year: David Woon (Kordia Limited) Honors the individual partner SEs who have demonstrated depth of knowledge and expertise in Cloudflare solutions and went above and beyond in delivering the Cloudflare experience for our joint customers.
Rising Star Award: The Missing Link Security Pty Ltd Honors individual partner representatives who, although new to our collaboration, have already made a significant, positive contribution both to our partnership and to driving outcomes for our customers.
Growth Partner of the Year: NTT Australia Pty Ltd Honors the partner who made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
EMEA partner awards
Distributor of the Year: V-Valley advanced Solutions España SAU Honors the top-performing distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure sales and growth revenue streams.
MSP of the Year: Orange Cyberdefense France Honors the top-performing managed services solutions provider.
GSI of the Year: Eviden France SAS Honors the top-performing GSI partner.
Partner of the Year: Liquid C2 Honors the top-performing partner that has demonstrated phenomenal sales achievement in 2023.
New Partner of the Year: Focus Group and Smartflare Honors the partners who, although new to the Cloudflare Partner Network in 2023, have already made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
Customer Win of the Year: Liquid C2 Honors the outstanding achievement of a partner who secured a major customer deal through exceptional collaboration and innovation.
Rising Star Award: Copy Cat Group and Cloudhop Honors individual partner representatives who, although new to our collaboration, have already made a significant, positive contribution both to our partnership and to driving outcomes for our customers.
Most Valuable Player of the Year: Nanosek Honors the top partner achiever who not only provided stellar service to our joint customers but also built new business value by tapping into the power of networks, relationships, and ecosystems.
Technical Excellence Award (Pre-Sales): Honors the partner company whose SEs demonstrated great knowledge and expertise in leading the customer’s Cloudflare pre-sales and POC experience.
Jean-Baptiste Voron (Eviden France SAS)
Ganesh the Awesome (Globaldots)
Martin Campos (Orange Cyberdefense)
Partner SE Champion of the Year: Ivan Rudnytskyi (Bakotech s.r.o.) Honors the individual partner SE who demonstrated depth of knowledge and expertise in Cloudflare solutions and went above and beyond in delivering the Cloudflare experience for our joint customers.
Certification Champion of the Year: Kaemi GmbH This award honors the partner whose teams earned the highest total number of Cloudflare certifications during 2023.
Marketing Champion of the Year: Infinigate Deutschland GmbH and Alter Way Honors partner companies who have demonstrated outstanding collaboration and business outcomes in marketing Cloudflare solutions.
To learn more about the Cloudflare PowerUP Partner Program, please check out the resources below:
In a testament to its commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace environment, Rapid7 is proud to be included in Newsweek’s Greatest Workplaces in America for 2024. This recognition not only underscores Rapid7’s dedication to its people, but also cements its standing among companies that invest in employee satisfaction and well-being as a critical component of business success.
The Importance of Employee Engagement in the Workplace
Employee engagement in the workplace is linked to higher levels of productivity and positive business outcomes. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report, employees who are not engaged, or those who are actively disengaged, could cost the world $8.8 trillion in lost productivity.
Rapid7 understands this connection, and is intentional in providing a workplace where employees can do their best work while feeling valued and supported. Christina Luconi, Chief People Officer at the firm, states “As a business, we are relentlessly in pursuit of delivering the best possible outcomes for our customers and the cybersecurity community we are a part of. In order to do that, we need people who are prepared to challenge convention, offer constructive feedback, and work collaboratively to drive impact. We make sure this is possible by providing a work environment that offers flexibility, great teaming experiences, opportunities to grow and learn new skills, and a shared commitment to Rapid7’s mission and vision.”
America’s Greatest Workplaces: Award Criteria
More than 250,000 U.S. employees were interviewed for the ranking, resulting in over 1.5 million company reviews spanning 78 individual sectors. The survey covered topics such as compensation and benefits, training and career progression, work-life balance and company culture. Also, post-survey research considered each ranked company’s online mentions, diversity and inclusion ratings, and reviews of senior management.
How Rapid7 Supports Its Employees
Flexibility: Our default model is hybrid, with employees spending three days per week in the office. This flexibility aligns with our culture of collaboration and teamwork, and is designed to foster meaningful connections and trusting relationships.
Career Development: At Rapid7, we provide a platform for career development and growth. Through a combination of programs and hands-on experiences, employees have the ability to drive their career forward and own their development journey.
Collaboration: We encourage our people to seek out opportunities to learn about other teams and areas of the business. Collaboration is something that happens every day, whether we are gathering feedback and perspectives to get the best solution, or setting up an insight coffee to learn more about a person’s role. We encourage employees at all levels of the business to proactively find ways to partner, collaborate, and learn from one another.
Wellbeing and Benefits: Benefits vary by country, and in the United States, employees enjoy unlimited PTO, competitive paid leave options for new parents, mental health resources, access to financial advisers, and more. We also undergo an annual compensation analysis to ensure our pay practices are both competitive and equitable.
Looking Ahead
Being named one of Newsweek’s Greatest Workplaces in America for 2024 is a significant achievement for Rapid7. Our commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive work environment remains unwavering, and we look forward to continuing to evolve our programs as we expand our teams and tackle new challenges in cybersecurity.
We are thrilled to announce that two of our exceptional team members, Joanne Guarglia and Kelly Hiscoe, have been recognized as CRN’s 2024 Women of the Channel. This recognition celebrates the achievements and leadership of women within the channel community, and we are incredibly proud to see Joanne and Kelly honored for their contributions.
Kelly Hiscoe: Driving innovation in partner programs
Kelly Hiscoe and her team are at the forefront of designing and launching partner programs, optimizing our operations to support Rapid7’s global channel ecosystem. Their commitment to creating highly effective and streamlined partner experiences ensures seamless execution within our channel. Engaging continuously with partners, Kelly’s team drives simplified, scalable, and predictable experiences that benefit all stakeholders.
Kelly’s dedication to improving our operational infrastructure and incentive programs is unwavering. Kelly said: “We will never be done focusing on creating improved programs and processes. We will continue to be laser focused on enhancing our operational infrastructure and incentive programs because we care deeply about the partner experience with Rapid7.”
Her leadership and vision are integral to our ongoing success and the satisfaction of our partners.
Kelly Hiscoe
Joanne Guarglia: Building lasting relationships
Joanne Guarglia has demonstrated exceptional skill in building and nurturing lasting relationships with our partners, an area in which Rapid7 are investing heavily – making strides with the channel community more than ever.
“What I enjoy most is being able to build lasting relationships with our partners. Partners want to work with trusted brands who are leaders in the space, and we have that here at Rapid7. Being that trusted voice and growing the relationship, while educating them about our offerings, enables me to have a positive impact,” Joanne said.
Her dedication to partner success and her ability to educate and inform are key components of her impactful work.
Joanne Guariglia
Commitment to excellence
At Rapid7, we are committed to fostering an environment where talented individuals like Joanne and Kelly can thrive. Their recognition as CRN’s 2024 Women of the Channel underscores our dedication to excellence and our focus on building a strong, supportive channel ecosystem. We look forward to their continued contributions and to the ongoing success of our partners.
Please join us in celebrating Joanne and Kelly for their outstanding achievements and their unwavering commitment to excellence in the channel community.
This past Friday, April 19, the University of South Florida (USF) College of Engineering recognized individuals and organizations who have greatly impacted USF and beyond at its ninth annual Engineering Honors Awards at The Armature Works in Tampa. I had the honor of joining my colleagues, including Rapid7 CEO, Corey Thomas, who accepted the Corporate Impact Award on behalf of the company.
The Corporate Impact Award is among the highest and most prestigious recognitions given by the College of Engineering. It recognizes Rapid7’s significant contributions to the College and its students. Receiving this award is incredibly gratifying for the Rapid7 Labs team as well as the greater Rapid7 organization.
Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas accepts the Corporate Impact Award from Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja, Executive Associate Dean of the USF College of Engineering.
In February 2023, the Rapid7 Cybersecurity Foundation invested in USF to create the Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab. Furthermore, Rapid7 is actively working with a multi-disciplinary team at USF to research and develop training to better educate students for taking SOC roles, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
Equally important has been Rapid7’s enthusiasm for directly working with researchers, professors, and students. Our Open Data Initiative provides real-world data derived from internet scans and honeypot data. We support research into training future SOC professionals by exposing them to teams working to protect our networks. A significant number of our teammates in Rapid7’s Tampa office are graduates from University of South Florida, a trend we aim to continue.
Rapid7’s USF partners, along with CEO Corey Thomas, at our Tampa office.
The future of Rapid7 and USF is bright, especially with the recent announcement of the formation of the College of AI and Cybersecurity at University of South Florida.
Rapid7 would like to not only thank the USF College of Engineering for recognizing our efforts in supporting the College, but more importantly, we want to thank them for being a great partner in driving research in the cybersecurity field as well as working alongside us to train the next generation of professionals. The future of cybersecurity depends on helping today’s students gain the tools they need to be successful, an area where University of South Florida excels.
Congratulations to Rapid7’s Vice President of Global Channel Sales, Alex Page, who is named among the newly-announced CRN 2024 Channel Chiefs!
Alex, who also received this prestigious accolade in2023, has been recognized for his outstanding contributions and expertise in driving strategic initiatives and shaping the channel agenda for both Rapid7 and the wider partner community.
The Channel Chiefs list, released annually by CRN, showcases the top leaders throughout the IT channel ecosystem who work tirelessly to ensure mutual success with their partners and customers.
“These channel evangelists are dedicated to supporting solution providers and achieving growth by implementing robust partner programs and unique business strategies,” said Jennifer Follett, VP, US Content, and Executive Editor, CRN, at The Channel Company.
“Their efforts are instrumental in helping partners bring essential solutions to market. The Channel Company is pleased to acknowledge these prominent channel leaders and looks forward to chronicling their achievements throughout the year.”
Under Alex’s leadership, Rapid7 has matured its channel approach to create a win-win-win scenario for all parties — most importantly, the end customer. This includes an obsessive focus on “being easy to do business with” for both partners and customers, and empowering our partners to participate in the full customer journey with us.
In Alex’s words: “Focus matters. You cannot try to be all things to all people, in general – but this very much applies to the channel. Find the partners who best fit your goals as a company, and can help make your customers most successful, and go deep with a small group of them. Your focus will drive more results. Your focus will also be very much felt and appreciated by the partner.”
We are proud to have Alex leading the charge, and of this recognition, which reinforces Rapid7’s commitment to excellence, innovation, and strong partnerships.
The highly respected SC Awards program, hosted by SC Media, recognizes the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security. Now in its 26th year, the SC Awards continue to grow and evolve.
Rapid7 is proud to announce we have received not one, but two prestigious SC Awards this year! InsightVM is the 2023 SC Award recipient for Best Vulnerability Management Solution and InsightIDR received the award in the brand new Best Threat Detection Technology category.
This year, SC’s panel of independent industry leaders, from sectors including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, consulting, and education sorted through a record number of entries. Additionally, SC added several new award categories and several modified categories to the competition.
Why InsightVM was selected
InsightVM is a vulnerability management tool that provides visibility into an organization’s security program, enabling security teams to reduce attack surface and security risk. The tool helps manage and mature vulnerability management programs by identifying vulnerabilities, prioritizing remediation efforts, and tracking progress against key metrics.
SC Media says InsightVM was selected for its ability to support the entire vulnerability management lifecycle and enabling security teams to manage their program more effectively. SC also noted the solution’s integration with Project Sonar for external-facing asset and threat exposure monitoring, as well as its robust tagging system to prioritize critical assets for remediation. Finally, they noted that live dashboards, Remediation Projects, and Goals and SLAs ease collaboration with stakeholders.
InsightVM was designed to provide a shared view and common language needed to collaborate with traditionally siloed teams and drive impactful remediation. As a result, easy collaboration stands out to customers as well.
“We’ve got at least five different teams that have responsibility for their own systems,” said Nick Defoe, Director of Information Security, US Signal. “Using the dashboard interface, we’ve been able to build out the reporting for each individual team. Getting these disparate groups all into one platform where they can see what they need to do for vulnerability management has been critical to our success.”
Why InsightIDR was selected
InsightIDR, Rapid7’s cloud-native XDR and next-gen SIEM, offers unified and transformed security data to detect real attacks and provide high-context insights to stop threats early in the attack chain.
According to SC Media, InsightIDR was selected because it empowers teams to deliver sophisticated detection and response outcomes with greater efficiency and efficacy, wherever they are in their security journey. This tracks with customers, as well.
In a recent Techvalidate survey, 92% of Rapid7 customers reported that InsightIDR creates efficiency and scale, and it offers savings that make it an accessible and robust solution for diverse industries and teams.
“When I put Rapid7 in place my response time went from three to four hours to ten to fifteen minutes,” said Kerry LeBlanc, IT Security Engineer, Bioventus. “I see what it is and how to remediate it. Everything is right there. I can query the endpoint or get information and pull up different things on the user.”
SC also noted InsightIDR’s “complete visibility, coverage, superior signal-to-noise, and smarter responses.” InsightIDR provides this complete visibility and coverage with a native endpoint agent, network sensors, collectors and APIs. Lightweight, software-based collection technology and integrations go beyond unifying data to correlate, attribute, and enrich diverse datasets into a single, harmonious picture — unlocking efficiency to give teams time back, ensure that they find real threats faster, and that they can respond quickly and completely.
Irish News has recognized Rapid7 in its Workplace and Employment Awards, where we’ve taken home the trophy for Best Company Connection. Reflecting on the past two years, this award recognizes the organization that best demonstrates how it has adapted its workplace well-being strategy to the challenges of remote working influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this includes how the company has remained committed to providing excellent support to its staff throughout, and maintaining contact and connection with workers during periods of uncertainty and isolation.
Rapid7 has been part of Belfast’s booming technology scene since 2014 and is home to a growing team of engineers, developers, and customer advisors. From 2020 to 2022, the office population nearly doubled in size to support the increasing demand from customers around the world for streamlined and accessible cybersecurity solutions. Maintaining Rapid7’s commitment to the core values of “Be an Advocate,” “Never Done,” “Impact Together,” “Challenge Convention,” and “Bring You” was a critical focal point for our local leadership as they scaled their teams in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic.
The judges were very impressed by Rapid7’s holistic response to this new way of working, and how the company recognised the importance of maintaining contact, culture, and connection during such unprecedented times. Programs that stood out included leadership engagement through weekly Town Halls, engagement with mental well-being experts, and several grassroots community initiatives, including an Academy group designed to support parents in homeschooling their children.
In addition to taking home the winning title, Rapid7 was also recognised as a finalist in two other categories this year: Best People Development Programme and Best Place to Work. Rapid7’s global commitment to its employees has been recognized in other recent designations, including the #1 spot on the Boston Business Journal Best Places to Work list in June and landing at #2 on Comparably’s list of Best Workplaces in Boston in March. Expanding our winning track record into the United Kingdom speaks to how we support employees in creating the career experience of a lifetime while positively impacting our customers and the greater cybersecurity community.
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LONDON—We are pleased to announce that two Rapid7 solutions were recognized on Tuesday, June 21, at the prestigious SC Awards Europe, which were presented at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square. InsightIDR took the top spot in the Best SIEM Solution category, and Threat Command brought home the award for Best Threat Intelligence Technology for the second year in a row.
The SC Awards Europe recognize and reward products and services that stand out from the crowd and exceed customer expectations. This year’s awards, which come at a time of rapid digital transformation and technology innovation, were assessed by a panel of highly experienced judges from a variety of industries. SC Media UK, which hosts the awards, is a leading information resource for cybersecurity professionals across Europe.
InsightIDR named “Best SIEM”
Security practitioners are using Rapid7 InsightIDR to address the challenges most everyone shares: Digital transformation is driving constant change, the attack surface continues to sprawl, and the skills gap drags on.
Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) solutions put the burden of heavy rule configuration, detection telemetry integration, dashboard and reporting content curation, and incident response on the customer. But industry-leading InsightIDR has always been different. It ties together disparate data from across a customer’s environment, including user activity, logs, cloud, endpoints, network traffic, and more into one place, ending tab-hopping and multi-tasking. Security teams get curated out-of-the box detections, high-context actionable insights, and built-in automation.
With easy SaaS deployment and lightning fast time-to-value, 72% of users report greatly improved team efficiency, 71% report accelerated detection of compromised assets, and most report reducing time to address an incident by 25-50%.
Threat Command named “Best Threat Intelligence Technology”
Rapid7 Threat Command is an external threat protection solution that proactively monitors thousands of sources across the clear, deep, and dark web. It enables security practitioners to anticipate threats, mitigate business risk, increase efficiency, and make informed decisions.
Threat Command delivers industry-leading AI/ML threat intelligence technology along with expert human intelligence analysis to continuously discover threats and map intelligence to organizations’ digital assets and vulnerabilities. This includes:
Patented technology and techniques for the detection, removal, and/or blocking of malicious threats
Dark web monitoring from analysts with unique access to invitation-only hacker forums and criminal marketplaces
The industry’s only 24/7/365 intelligence support from experts for deeper investigation into critical alerts
Single-click remediation including takedowns, facilitated by our in-house team of experts
100% of Threat Command users surveyed said the tool delivered faster time to value than other threat intelligence solutions they’d used, and 85% said adopting Threat Command improved their detection and response capabilities.
InsightIDR + Threat Command
Using InsightIDR and Threat Command together can further increase security teams’ efficiency and reduce risk. Users get a 360-degree view of internal and external threats, enabling them to avert attacks, accelerate investigations with comprehensive threat context, and flag the most relevant information — minimizing the time it takes to respond. With InsightIDR and Threat Command, customers are able to more effectively and efficiently see relevant threat data across their attack surface and quickly pivot to take immediate action – in the earliest stages of attack, even before a threat has fully evolved.
Learn more about how InsightIDR and Threat Command can fit into your organization’s security strategy.
For the second year in a row, Rapid7 has been named a Visionary in the Gartner® 2022 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing. We believe we accomplished this by combining an industry-leading dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution with container and cloud security, security across the software development life cycle (SDLC), strategic partnerships, and a customer-centric approach that anticipates the needs of not just security teams but DevOps teams as well. All in a package that is easy to utilize and highly accurate.
We are proud of the approach we have taken to keeping applications and APIs safe and secure. We recognized early that while DAST is the bedrock of a strong application security program, it works best when combined with the core capabilities we have built into our platform that allow for teams across the company to work together, rather than be siloed and inefficient.
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We offer support for developer stakeholders across the SDLC (pre- and post-production), actively moving left in the lifecycle, and ensuring that applications and APIs are secure throughout the development process. This means teams can work cross-functionally, saving time and resulting in stronger security protections baked into the applications themselves. Our Attack Replay feature allows developers to confirm a vulnerability on their own, without the need to run a scan, making it even easier to find and remediate risks at any point in the process.
“The product provides our developers with actionable solutions to security risks that was missed during development.”
At Rapid7, we are very proud of our history of innovative, modern, and forward-thinking vulnerability management solutions. However, it takes more than that to secure modern web applications. InsightAppSec integrates with the Insight platform, giving you a full view of your production environment. We have made a series of strategic investments and partnerships to expand the level and competency of our Insight platform, including those with Snyk and Checkmarx, which ensure that InsightAppSec is prepared to cover every level of your attack surface from every angle.
Our focus on cloud-native applications, in particular, means we have the tools to protect the most cutting-edge applications and to help those transitioning into the cloud — all with the ease and confidence that comes from our customer-centric approach to application security.
“In my opinion InsightAppSec approaches DAST the optimal way, with a cloud-based interface and the ability to spin up on-premises engines to perform scans. This means we’re not responsible for software updates, and the on-premises engines have an auto-update functionality that make them very low maintenance.”
At the heart of our capabilities is our world-class DAST. It’s powerful, it’s accurate, it’s streamlined, and it’s cloud-based. This allows for security teams to spin up scans quickly and easily. We frequently hear from customers that we provide the most reliable results. Our Universal Translator allows coverage and attacks to be developed in parallel and released to customers as they are available, and it lets users perform security testing for traditional applications and modern applications.
“Our experience with Rapid7 products has always been positive. InsightAppSec is a great solution for DAST scanning of web apps and API. It gives great results even in unauthenticated scans and has a great UI.”
We are truly excited to be recognized as a Visionary in the latest Magic Quadrant, but we’re more excited for the many plans we have to improve and grow our AppSec offerings. We have always sought to redefine what modern application security looks like and are grateful to our customers and partners for taking this exciting journey with us.
Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing, Dale Gardner, Mark Horvath, Dionisio Zumerle, 18th April
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It’s with immense pleasure that we announce today the winners of the Rapid7 Partner of the Year Awards 2022. All our category winners have achieved exceptional growth, demonstrating dedication and collaboration to the Rapid7 Partner Program throughout the year.
We’re very proud to share our complete list of winners. Please join us in congratulating them all.
APAC Awards
Rapid7 APAC Partner of the Year: Cythera Pty Ltd
APAC Distributor of the Year: Netpoleon Solutions Pte Ltd
APAC Emerging Partner of the Year: Murdoch Webster Technology Group Pty Ltd
APAC Fastest Growth Partner of the Year: Blue Apache Information Systems
APAC Best Customer Retention of the Year: Content Security Pty Ltd
APAC Detection & Response Partner of the Year: DGplex Pty Ltd
APAC Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: The Missing Link
EMEA Awards
EMEA Partner of the Year: Softcat Plc
EMEA Distributor of the Year: Infinigate Deutschland GmbH
EMEA Emerging Partner of the Year: Telonic GmbH
EMEA Fastest Growth Partner of the Year: Caretower Limited
EMEA Best Customer Retention of the Year: Saepio Solutions Ltd
EMEA MSSP Partner of the Year: Tesorion
EMEA Detection & Response Partner of the Year: Orange CyberDefense
EMEA Threat Intelligence Partner of the Year: Sorint.SEC
EMEA Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: Tieto
North America Awards
Rapid7 North America Partner of the Year: SHI International Corp.
North America Distribution Partner of the Year: Liquid PC
North America Emerging Partner of the Year: AccessIT Group, Inc.
“We are pleased to be recognized as North America Emerging Partner of the Year, and we value our evolving partnership with Rapid7,” said Bob Reilly, Vice President of Sales at AccessIT Group. “Rapid7 is a great partner that allows us to deliver shared visibility, analytics, and automation to unite our customers’ security, IT, and DevOps teams.”
North America Fastest Growth Partner of the Year: CDW Corporation
North America Best Customer Retention of the Year: Carahsoft Technology Corp.
“We are pleased to be recognized as the 2022 North America Best Customer Retention Partner,” said Alex Whitworth, Sales Director, who leads the Rapid7 Team at Carahsoft. “Carahsoft and our reseller partners enable customers to unlock more value from their Rapid7 investments through our proactive customer onboarding, nurture, and support process. We combine dedicated Rapid7 expertise, customer success technology and automation, and a constant communication approach to build valuable relationships with customers. We thank Rapid7 and our reseller partners for this amazing award.”
North America MSSP Partner of the Year: RKON Technologies
“RKON is honored and grateful to receive the MSSP of the Year for North America award from Rapid7. This award is a testament that the RKON and Rapid7 teams’ shared vision, strong working partnership, and endless determination have been fruitful in driving aggressive growth and adding value to our client’s security programs.”
– Chris Hueneke, Chief Information Security Officer at RKON Technologies
North America Detection & Response Partner of the Year: CyberWatch Systems
North America Threat Intelligence Partner of the Year: Deepwatch, Inc.
North America Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: GuidePoint Security LLC
North America AppSec Partner of the Year: GuidePoint Security LLC
North America Cloud Security Partner of the Year: SHI International Corp.
Rapid7 Canadian Partner of the Year: Forecight
“This is a big honor for our entire team, who supported the company to attain its overwhelming success over the past few years. Our mutual achievements are truly a testament to our partnership and our ability to work together to give our clients the best cybersecurity solutions. We look forward to continuing our robust and fruitful partnership with Rapid7.”
– Arezou Marzara, LL.M., Director, Strategy & Operations at Forecight
Congratulations again to all our winners!
More about our partner program
The Rapid7 PACT Program is built to inspire our partners to grow with us and achieve mutual success through accountability, consistency, and transparency. By participating in the program, partners can offer powerful, industry-leading solutions to our joint customers, resulting in mutual success for all. If you’re interested in becoming a Rapid7 partner, you can learn more here.
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The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. But the speed of those changes, combined with the increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environments, often forces organizations to choose between slowing the pace of innovation or taking on massive amounts of unmanaged risk.
Because of this, cloud misconfigurations have become a leading attack vector for malicious breaches. Organizations are now scrambling to evolve their cloud security programs to properly secure their most sensitive and valuable data — before it falls into the hands of an adversary.
This requires going beyond the siloed toolsets and manual efforts of increasingly hard-to-find cloud security professionals. Instead, businesses need to leverage comprehensive cloud workload security solutions that allow their teams to get a broad set of capabilities in a single platform in order to move more efficiently and effectively.
But in the still-emerging and rapidly evolving cloud security space, narrowing down a shortlist of vendors can be challenging and confusing.
To help buyers select the right vendor for their needs among the industry’s many players, Forrester Research evaluated the top 12 cloud security providers to equip evaluators with necessary context on each provider’s current offering and strategy. We’re excited to share that Rapid7 has been included among these top vendors and recognized as a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022.
Most notably, Forrester’s report showed Rapid7 as the top-ranked solution in the Current Offering category.
This is the first time the Forrester Wave™ for Cloud Workload Security has been published since Rapid7’s acquisition of DivvyCloud and Alcide, which culminated in the launch of InsightCloudSec in July 2021. We believe the results of this Forrester Wave™ show that Rapid7’s strategy and execution following those acquisitions has already positioned us well against other vendors in the highly competitive cloud security market.
“In its current CWS offering, the vendor provides excellent setup, configuration, and data integration solution features; identity and access management and CSPM is strong. Runtime and container orchestration platform protection is also strong and easy to use.”
The Forrester report gave Rapid7 the highest possible scores in the criteria of cloud security posture management (CSPM), infrastructure as code (IaC), identity and access management (IAM), and container protection, which to us emphasizes the breadth and depth of our current solution in both posture management and workload protection.
Rapid7 also received the highest possible score in the Setup, Configuration, and Data Integration criterion. When combined with the highest possible score in the Integration category, we believe this leads to faster time to value and more efficient ongoing cloud security operations compared to other vendors.
Within the Strategy category, Forrester gave Rapid7 the highest possible scores in the Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) Plans and Container Protection Plans criteria. According to the report, “In its CWS strategy, [Rapid7] has differentiated CWP and container protection plans.”
“The vendor plans to implement runtime analysis using machine learning (ML) to establish a baseline profile of activity and identify anomalous behaviors and unknown threats, simplifying runtime rules and detections,“ the report explains.
From our standpoint, this combination of current market-leading CSPM and shift-left capabilities, alongside a highly differentiated CWP and Container Protection roadmap, is evidence of the significant value Rapid7 is bringing to our customers by enabling organizations to innovate and accelerate their business strategies with secure adoption of cloud technologies.
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You can download The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022 from our website here.
Interested in hearing more about Rapid7’s cloud security solution, and how we’re providing value to our current customers? Join us on Tuesday, March 29 for our third-annual Cloud Security Summit to hear from our leadership, customers, and partners about how Rapid7 is driving cloud security forward.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our annual Channel and Alliance Partner Awards for 2021. Throughout a year of continued global disruptions, Cloudflare’s partners kept innovating, expanding their solutions and services capabilities, and accelerated their growth with us and our platform. It is important that we recognize and award the partners of ours who stood out in staying laser-focused on delivering outstanding business outcomes for customers.
With the ongoing shift in 2021 to remote, flexible work forces and the evolving cyber threat landscape, more than ever organizations across every industry and the public sector were looking to Cloudflare, and to work hand in hand with partners who can deliver a modern, Zero Trust approach to security. Seeing this consistent need, we are continuing to build and support new levels of partner-led growth in the year ahead such as with a new partner services program for SASE and Zero Trust which we launched at the start of 2022.
Please join us in congratulating the impressive achievements of our partner award winners over this past year! They enable the further delivery of Internet security, performance, and reliability for organizations of all sizes and types — and we are thrilled to be recognizing their impact.
Honors the GSI partner who has demonstrated outstanding, wide-ranging go-to-market collaboration with Cloudflare resulting in significant customer outcomes and partnership revenue growth.
MSP Partner of the Year: Rackspace Technology Honors the top performing MSP partner in the Americas.
Channel Partner of the Year:Optiv Honors the top performing channel partner who has demonstrated phenomenal sales achievement and growth in 2021.
Distributor Partner of the Year:AVANT Honors the top performing distributor who has best represented Cloudflare, enabling their reseller partners to secure customer sales and growth revenue streams.
Rising Star Partner of the Year:GuidePoint Security Honors the partner who made substantial investments to grow our shared business, achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
APJC Partner Awards
Partners of the Year: Honors the top performing partners in their respective business territories who have demonstrated phenomenal sales achievement and growth in 2021.
Distributor Partner of the Year: Honors the top performing distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure customer sales and grow revenue streams.
Partner Win of the Year: Honors the partner who has brought in the largest, most strategic deal and deployed a comprehensive end-to-end security, performance and reliability solution to its customer.
Technical Excellence Award: Honors the partner companies whose SEs demonstrated great knowledge and expertise in leading the customer’s Cloudflare (presales & POC) experience.
Partner SE Champions of the Year: Honors the partner Solution Engineers (SEs) who have demonstrated depth of knowledge & expertise in Cloudflare solutions through earned certifications and went above & beyond in delivering the Cloudflare experience for customers.
Partner Marketing Champions: Honors the partners who have demonstrated outstanding collaboration and business outcomes in marketing Cloudflare solutions.
Partner of the Year: e92 Plus Honors the top performing partner who has demonstrated phenomenal sales achievement and growth in 2021.
Distributor of the Year: V-Valley Honors the top performing distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and enabled partners to secure customer sales and grow revenue streams.
MSP Partner of the Year: Rackspace Technology Honors the top performing MSP partner across the EMEA region.
New Partner of the Year: Dept Agency Honors the partner who, although new to the Cloudflare Partner Network in 2021, has already made substantial investments to grow our shared business achieving not only full certification compliance but also exceeding revenue targets.
Most Valuable Player (MVP) Partner: Softline Honors the partner who has delivered stellar service to our joint customers, and also engaged in certifications and registered deals.
Cloudflare Certification Champions of the Year:Concat AG, and DC Communication Honors partner companies whose teams earned the highest total number of Cloudflare certifications.
Partner SEs Champions of the Year: Honors the partner SEs who have demonstrated depth of knowledge & expertise in Cloudflare solutions through earned certifications and went above and beyond in delivering the Cloudflare experience for customers.
Velociraptor and Rapid7 are excited to announce the winners of our 2021 Velociraptor Contributor Competition on Friday, October 8. This competition encourages development of useful content and extensions to the Velociraptor platform. Submissions include new functionality in the form of VQL artifacts, Velociraptor plugins, or new Velociraptor code and integrations. Judging will be done by a panel of various digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) industry leaders and security experts.
You can watch the announcement of the winners LIVE at the SANS Threat Hunting Summit on Friday, October 8th at 1 pm ET. To register for the summit, head to this page and click on the “Register for Summit” link. Registration is completely free.
The competition carries 3 prize levels: First prize is $5,000 USD, second prize is $3,000 USD, and third prize is $2,000 USD. The winning submissions will also be published on the Velociraptor website.
Velociraptor is an advanced DFIR tool that enhances visibility into all of your endpoints. To learn more about Velociraptor, visit our website or follow us on Twitter @velocidex.
New IDC MarketScape Names Rapid7 a Leader in U.S. Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
It’s a big year to be named a Leader.
Time magazine said the pandemic produced “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.” Suddenly, everyone was accessing everything from everywhere. Control moved outside security’s four walls. More stuff moved to the cloud. And CEOs started wondering who’d be on the nightly news next explaining why they paid millions to EvilCorp hackers.
So this year, especially, Rapid7 is thrilled to be recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Managed Detection and Response 2021 Vendor Assessment, (Doc #US48129921, August 2021).
This IDC MarketScape report shows an unbiased look at 15 MDR players in the U.S. market, evaluating each on capabilities. We feel this recognition reflects Rapid7’s mission to help our customers close the security achievement gap — because every company, regardless of their security team’s size, deserves a level playing field against attackers. Clearly we’re on the right path.
This recognition follows a slew of other accolades for Rapid7’s Detection and Response portfolio. In the last few months, Forrester Research recognized Rapid7 as a “Leader” (Mid-size MSSP Wave, Q3 2020) and “Strong Performer” (MDR Wave, Q1 2021). And Gartner recognized the underlying technology of the MDR service — InsightIDR — as a “Leader” for the third year in a row (SIEM Magic Quadrant, Q2 2021).
Why is this so important?
Nowadays, the MDR market is so noisy that all vendors can sound the same. When market reports like this are published, it proves there’s a difference between MDR providers and offerings delivering security outcomes versus promises.
Today, Rapid7 MDR security experts use our XDR technology to provide constant coverage across our customer’s modern environment — endpoints, users, network, and the cloud. Attackers can change their tactics, but Rapid7’s threat engine still lets us stay a step ahead.
IDC analysts like that Rapid7 MDR “applies proprietary threat intelligence and knowledge from the Metasploit and Velociraptor open-source communities.” This proprietary, community-infused threat intelligence, combined with our recent IntSights acquisition, will evolve our service with even more accurate detections across both internal and external attack surfaces. Attackers have nowhere to hide.
And unlike other MDR and MSSP services that rely on security generalists to simply manage technology and triage alerts, Rapid7’s expert specialists take the lead on threat detection, validation, and how to respond.
Your team can stop threats earlier and respond faster. You can have the confidence that your environment is monitored 24×7. And you’ll have time to focus on what matters most (even if some days it’s just getting around to taking lunch).
Teams love Rapid7 MDR, and here’s why. We help you:
Build your cyber resilience:You can detect threats with confidence. Our team delivers the answers needed to find and stop attacks, not just deliver alerts. And we’ll partner with your team to strengthen your security program.
Enable you to scale with SecOps experts:24×7 is table stakes now. But having continuous coverage by breach response analysts isn’t. Customers can collaborate with Rapid7 security advisors and get the incident response help needed if (or when) it’s needed most.
Provide full transparency into operations:You see what we see with full access to the technology our analysts use. Learn from our experts and community. Then prove out the ROI with comprehensive reporting that even your CFO would appreciate.
Catch attackers with 24×7 XDR technology:Unify and transform relevant security data from across endpoints, users, network traffic, and the cloud to detect and respond to attackers wherever they are.
Achieve a rapid time-to-value:Jumpstart detection and response from day one. We’ll provide you with the guidance and advice to move from risk to remediation and strengthen your cyber resilience.
Over the past year and more, we’ve lived through the most extraordinary, turbulent, and challenging times we’ll likely experience in our lifetime. Yet through all the uncertainty, our partners have continued to show determination, drive, and commitment, performing at an exceptional level.
With this said, it’s with immense pleasure that we announce today the winners of the Rapid7 Partner of the Year Awards 2021. All our category winners have achieved exceptional growth, demonstrating dedication and collaboration to the Rapid7 Partner Program throughout the year.
We’re very proud to share our complete list of winners. Please join us in congratulating them all.
International Awards
EMEA Partner of the Year: Softcat Plc
APAC Partner of the Year: Intalock Technologies Pty Ltd
International Emerging Partner of the Year: Caretower Ltd
International Best Customer Retention Award: Saepio Solutions Ltd
APAC Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: RIoT Solutions
EMEA Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: Orange Cyberdefense Sweden
APAC Detection & Response Partner of the Year: The Missing Link
EMEA Detection & Response Partner of the Year: Saepio Solutions Ltd
APAC MSSP Partner of the Year: Triskele Labs
EMEA MSSP Partner of the Year: Charterhouse Voice and Data
“We are proud of the relationship we have built with Rapid7 over the last two years, and they have become one of our key focus partners. To be awarded EMEA MSSP Partner of the Year in such a short space of time is a testament to our technical team and our commitment to Rapid7. As an integral component in our state of the Security Operations Centre, we only see this relationship going from strength to strength.”
North America Awards
Rapid 7 North America Partner of the Year: SHI International Corporation
“Thank you so much. With Rapid7 being a strategic security partner to SHI, we are excited to be receiving this award. I feel that this highlights the excellent relationship that we have, as well as some really great engagement we’ve seen between our sales teams. Security is an extremely important industry to SHI and our mutual customers. I am confident we will continue to see success when positioning Rapid7 solutions.”
– Joseph Lentine, Director – Strategic Software Partners, Security
North America Emerging Partner of the Year: GDT
North America Best Customer Retention Award: Optiv
North America Vulnerability Management Partner of the Year: GuidePoint Security
North America Detection & Response Partner of the Year: Sayers
“Being selected for this award is a special honor for Sayers. Ransomware preparedness is a cornerstone of the Sayers Cybersecurity Services portfolio. We couldn’t be more impressed with the professionalism and cutting-edge technology Rapid7 brings to the market. It was an easy decision to partner with Rapid7 for our Sayers Managed Detection & Response service offering.”
–Joel Grace, Sr. VP of Client Services
North America MSSP Partner of the Year: Edge Communications
“Edge Communications is honored to be named the Rapid7 North America MSSP Partner of the Year for 2020.
“Edge is proud of the strong collaborative relationship that we have developed with Rapid7, a cybersecurity industry leader. Edge delivers one the best Managed Security solutions available in the marketplace, due in part to utilizing Rapid 7 products which we believe exceed the best in class designation. On behalf of the entire Edge team, thank you Rapid 7 for your support, dedication, and partnership.”
– Frank Pallone, VP Information Security
Congratulations again to all our winners!
More about our partner program
The Rapid7 PACT Program is built to inspire our partners to grow with us and achieve mutual success through accountability, consistency, and transparency. By participating in the program, partners can offer powerful, industry-leading solutions to our joint customers, resulting in mutual success for all.
If you’re interested in becoming a Rapid7 partner, you can learn more here.
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