Secureworks vs. Rapid7: Choose the Best MDR Solution

Secureworks vs. Rapid7

Secureworks delivers 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response that maximizes the value of your current investments while fulfilling security staffing needs.

Comparison

VS. Rapid7

	Secureworks MDR	Rapid7 MDR
Support for endpoint, network, and cloud	yes	yes
Investigation and response	yes	yes
Advanced analytics	yes	no ¹
Threat hunting	yes ²	yes
Open platform with support for third-party integrations and automated playbooks that accelerate response	Yes	no ³
<90 seconds for direct access to a SOC analyst with unlimited support	yes	no ⁴
Use the same interface and platform as the SOC delivering MDR, with full transparency on investigations	yes	no ⁵
Mixed-EDR agent environment support, with included and/or supported third-party agents	yes	no ⁶
Full-service incident response available, with unlimited response for in-scope environments	yes ⁷	yes
Freedom to keep or remove the managed service and take over yourself with zero technology changes	yes	no ⁸
One year of raw telemetry from all sources included — plus up to five years available to support compliance needs	yes	yes
Filters the most noise from the most sources	yes ⁹	no ¹⁰
Dedicated team of 100+ threat researchers and detection algorithms powered by 40B+ unique threat and knowledge nodes	yes ¹¹	no ¹²
Quarterly customized security maturity and performance update	yes	no ¹³

Rapid7 received a score of 3 in the Forrester Wave™ Q2 2023 for analytics while Secureworks scored a perfect 5.
With Taegis™ ManagedXDR Elite, customers receive a designated threat hunter and continuous targeted threat hunting.
Rapid7 requires customers to use their technology stack, including their EDR agent, and does not include automated playbooks for proactive response.
Rapid7 has no in-product SOC chat feature, and customers only have access to a Security Advisor, who acts as their point of contact to the SOC.
After Secureworks' reasonable review, Secureworks cannot find any publicly available information validating that this feature is available from Rapid7.
Rapid7 does not support a mixed-EDR agent environment and requires customers to deploy the Rapid7 Insight Agent. Other EDR can only be ingested as syslog.
Secureworks is one of only four companies worldwide to be accredited by both the NSA CIRA (US) and NCSC CIR (UK).
Rapid7 uses multiple products for MDR, and organizations cannot take over themselves without technology changes.
99.6% of alerts we receive from third-party security products are filtered as false positives.
After Secureworks' reasonable review, Secureworks cannot find any publicly available information validating that this feature is available from Rapid7.
Secureworks has 100+ elite threat researchers tracking 150+ active threat groups.
After Secureworks' reasonable review, Secureworks cannot find any publicly available information validating that this feature is available from Rapid7.
Security posture review meetings are only included in the Advanced MDR package from Rapid7.