Analyst recognition

Rapid7 named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide MDR for Midmarket

The MDR market is changing faster than many security teams have adapted. Explore the IDC MarketScape excerpt t to understand what to look for in a provider and how MDR is evolving across AI, threat intelligence, service delivery, and accountability.

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Threat detection should understand what it’s protecting

Modern attacks move too quickly for security teams to investigate threats without context. An exposure-aware approach brings together vulnerability context, asset criticality and attack path data so analysts understand what matters before an investigation begins. For security leaders evaluating MDR providers, it’s an increasingly important capability to assess.

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What Rapid7 brings to MDR

Exposure-aware investigations for midmarket

The IDC MarketScape noted, "Rapid7's Preemptive MDR model, which natively integrates vulnerability context, asset criticality, and attack path data directly into the analyst investigation workflow, provides a structurally differentiated detection approach that connects threat activity to underlying exposure in real time."

Proprietary threat intelligence

The IDC MarketScape noted, "The combination of Project Lorelei honeypot intelligence and Project Sonar internet-wide exposure data provides proprietary threat intelligence sources that are not replicated by other providers in the market."

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"Rapid7's Preemptive MDR model, which natively integrates vulnerability context, asset criticality, and attack path data directly into the analyst investigation workflow, provides a structurally differentiated detection approach that connects threat activity to underlying exposure in real time."

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Service for Midmarket 2026 Vendor Assessment

What's inside

Explore the capabilities, service models, and strategies security leaders should consider when evaluating an MDR provider.

How IDC MarketScape evaluates MDR

How IDC MarketScape evaluates MDR

Understand how IDC MarketScape assesses providers across threat intelligence, AI architecture, service delivery, customer experience, and financial accountability.

How the MDR market is evolving

How the MDR market is evolving

Explore why agentic AI, exposure-aware detection, proprietary intelligence, and breach warranties are becoming important MDR differentiators.

Why Rapid7 was named a Leader

Why Rapid7 was named a Leader

See what IDC Marketscape highlighted about Rapid7

About the IDC MarketScape graphic

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

Caption: IDC MarketScape, Worldwide MDR for Midmarket, 2026 · Source: IDC, 2026

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