Rapid7 MDR
Proactive Threat Hunting
Backed by insights from millions of customer endpoints, our research team, and open source communities, proactive hunts through Rapid7 MDR keep you ahead of fast-moving threats.
Sophisticated attacks require intelligent hunts
Managed threat hunting is critical when breakout times are accelerating, novel techniques evade detection, and intrusions occur across domains.
AI is compressing attack timelines
Attackers are intruding at machine speed, causing operational impact in seconds and minutes – not hours or days.
TTPs are evolving, rapidly
New and increasingly sophisticated attack techniques are becoming more accessible to more threat actors.
Attack paths span your environment
Adversaries move seamlessly across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and SaaS – not just targeting a single domain.
AI is compressing attack timelines
Attackers are intruding at machine speed, causing operational impact in seconds and minutes – not hours or days.
TTPs are evolving, rapidly
New and increasingly sophisticated attack techniques are becoming more accessible to more threat actors.
Attack paths span your environment
Adversaries move seamlessly across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and SaaS – not just targeting a single domain.
Hunt adversaries and disrupt attacks
Combine real world-intelligence, continuous data analysis, integrated response, and rapid detection creation to uncover and preempt novel threats.
Reveal what matters most
Proprietary intelligence reveals zero days and new IOCs as they surface, delivering the earliest possible protection.
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How proactive threat hunting compares
| Capability | Traditional MDR | Rapid7 MDR |
|---|---|---|
| Threat hunting approach | Reactive hunting performed on fixed schedules after alerts trigger | Proactive, hypothesis-based hunting driven by proprietary intelligence |
| Threat intelligence | Relies on third-party feeds and publicly available indicators | Powered by Rapid7 Labs, emergent CVEs, and customer-driven intelligence |
| Attack surface | Primarily focused on endpoint telemetry and alert activity | Cross-domain visibility across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and SaaS |
| Detection support | Static detections updated periodically through standard content releases | Continuously evolving detections developed from emerging attacker behavior |
| Incident response | Requires a separate IR retainer or disconnected escalation process | Integrated response with seamless MDR-to-IR escalation and remediation |
| Tooling | Query language-based log search requiring specialized expertise | AI-powered, natural language log search and built-in Velociraptor for deep digital forensics |
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Resources
Explore how Rapid7 approaches threat hunting, investigation, and response.
Hunt or Be Hunted: Frontline Tales of Detection
Security incidents don’t unfold in clean, linear steps – and neither do the decisions that stop them. In this webcast, we walk through a real-world incident to show how SOC teams actually operate under pressure.
Frequently asked questions
Proactive threat hunting is the practice of actively searching for suspicious behavior that may indicate compromise, including activity that bypasses preventative controls or does not trigger alerts. In Rapid7 MDR, this is performed continuously by analysts and our proprietary tech stack.
Suspicious activity is investigated by connecting endpoint, identity, network, and cloud context to validate risk and gather evidence. In Rapid7 MDR, analysts use this connected context to move efficiently from initial signal to confirmed threat.
When a threat is validated, the investigation is escalated to Incident Response, enriched with context, and investigated around the clock to support containment and remediation efforts. In Rapid7 MDR, analysts and tenured incident responders help coordinate response actions so teams can move quickly from detection to resolution.
Threat hunting improves threat detection and response by incorporating emerging attack behavior into the detections used to identify threats. In Rapid7 MDR, detection engineers refine and create detections to trigger alerts for novel attacker TTPs.
Threat hunting can be either continuous or on a fixed schedule depending on the service. In Rapid7 MDR, hunting is continuous and integrated into daily analyst workflows, allowing teams to identify suspicious activity as it emerges.
See how Rapid7 MDR stops threats earlier
Talk with Rapid7 about how proactive, exposure-aware MDR helps your team find threats earlier, reduce noise, and respond with confidence.