Rapid7 has announced the availability of Rapid7 MDR for Microsoft, a managed detection, investigation, and response service aimed at helping organisations operationalise security data generated across Microsoft environments.
The launch comes as enterprises increasingly consolidate productivity, identity, endpoint and cloud security tooling around Microsoft, raising both visibility and complexity for security teams.
“As more of your environment consolidates onto Microsoft, the attack surface evolves – and without fully operationalising that ecosystem, risk grows alongside it,” Rapid7 said in a January 2022 blog post.
The company positioned the offering as a way to translate Microsoft Defender telemetry into actionable security outcomes, rather than overwhelming teams with alerts and signal noise.
Rapid7 MDR for Microsoft combines the company’s global security operations centre, its SIEM technology, and deeper bi-directional integrations with Microsoft Defender. The service is designed to help customers maximise their existing Microsoft investments, reduce the operational burden of managing detection and response tooling, and respond decisively to active threats.
By correlating Microsoft telemetry with Rapid7’s own data and incorporating exposure and asset risk directly into investigations, the company said its analysts can anticipate likely breach paths and intervene earlier in the attack life cycle.
The service also leans heavily on Rapid7’s managed response capabilities, blending automation with human expertise. Customers receive 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring from Rapid7’s global SOC, remote containment actions, endpoint forensics using the open-source Velociraptor DFIR framework, and unlimited incident response to ensure threats are fully investigated and neutralised.
Additional features include unlimited log ingestion to remove SIEM cost constraints, dedicated cyber security advisers to support long-term program maturity, and full transparency into SOC investigations through direct access to workflows and queries.
According to Rapid7, the goal is predictable value, reduced complexity, and a security posture that can keep pace as Microsoft environments continue to expand.
David Hollingworth
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