Category: Managed XDR

Co-athored by Mikayla Wyman and Ryan Blanchard

Expanded SOC Coverage Into AWS Environments with Rapid7 MXDR

As organizations increasingly rely on AWS for scalability and innovation, the complexity of securing these environments grows. AWS offers a robust set of native services and a comprehensive ecosystem, but managing security signals and responding to threats across dynamic workloads can overwhelm even the most well-equipped teams.

Rapid7’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) service has focused on helping customers bridge this gap, unifying security telemetry from major cloud service providers including AWS and Azure, with expert-driven detection and response. With MXDR, organizations can confidently scale their cloud investments without sacrificing the comprehensive coverage they’re familiar with today.

Tailored to AWS Workloads and Modern Cloud Security Challenges

MXDR delivers the context and coverage needed to handle complex threats in AWS environments, providing a purpose-built service to address the specific challenges of securing modern cloud environments. With the extension of MXDR for AWS, teams can tailor their Rapid7 MXDR support to include triage, investigation, and response for critical GuardDuty alerts directly within their MDR service.

Layering native AWS telemetry with insights from other tools and environments creates a centralized, unified view of your security posture. With this context, our team is able to tailor protections and actions to the unique needs of your environment, safeguarding your assets more effectively against evolving threats. This comprehensive perspective empowers Rapid7 MDR analysts to operate at peak efficiency, ensuring your organization experiences a robust incident response lifecycle, from initial detection and alert triage to containment and response.

Augmenting Your Security Team with a Fleet of CDR Experts

Protecting your AWS environment doesn’t need to be a solo effort. With Rapid7 MXDR, you gain access to our extensive team of seasoned MDR analysts who diligently monitor, triage, and respond to incidents in real time, reducing operational burden. With an expert MDR team on call, teams are ready to contain incidents and limit blast radius. Customized mitigation and response strategies for AWS workloads, aligned with your unique environment and risk tolerance enables our team to provide clear insights, remediation guidance and future mitigation recommendations to improve security and drive executive buy-in for security investments.

By deeply integrating cloud risk context from our industry-leading CNAPP capabilities into the incident response workflow, our MDR analysts are equipped with environmental awareness needed to act more quickly on your behalf to stop attackers in their tracks.

Rapid7 MXDR eliminates the need for piecemeal tools and processes by delivering end-to-end security services that combine AWS-native telemetry with cross-platform intelligence. The result is comprehensive threat detection and mitigation across your AWS environments without the complexity of managing multiple tools, providing:

  • Cloud Attack Surface Visibility and Advanced Threat Detection: Correlating AWS telemetry with global threat intelligence to build a dynamic map of your environment, uncover sophisticated attacks and spot avenues for lateral movement.
  • Continuous Coverage and Proactive Threat Hunting: Lean on our team of seasoned SOC experts who monitor, triage, and respond to incidents in real time, reducing operational burden.
  • Visibility into Cloud Identities, Their Permissions and Privileges: Monitor all cloud accounts and identities and proactively spot anomalous and potentially malicious user behavior, privilege escalations, or unusual API calls.
  • AI-Assisted Triage with Risk-Aware Context: Automatic context enrichment for cloud alerts with the relevant information SOC analysts need to understand the posture of a compromised account or resource and prioritize response.

Take Command of Your AWS Security Today

Whether you’re protecting critical workloads or responding to active threats, Rapid7 MXDR enables organizations to secure their AWS environments with confidence. From continuous monitoring to expert response, Rapid7 ensures your AWS assets remain protected while allowing your team to focus on driving business innovation.

Contact Rapid7 today to see how MXDR can elevate your AWS security posture.

Unlock 24/7 SOC Coverage: Rapid7 MXDR Now Supports with Microsoft Security Products

In today’s complex threat landscape, organizations need every advantage at their disposal to stay secure–starting with maximizing the tools they already have within their ecosystem. With the launch of Rapid7 MXDR’s SOC support for key Microsoft security products, we’re making it possible for organizations to layer security defenses and amplify outcomes by combining their existing Microsoft telemetry with the 24x7 coverage, broad security ecosystem telemetry and in-depth expertise of Rapid7’s MXDR service.

By connecting directly to key Microsoft event sources—like Microsoft O365, Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Vulnerability Management, Defender for Identity, and Entra Identity—MXDR amplifies detection, visibility, and response capabilities across the technology you rely on, without needing additional infrastructure or complex setups. From uncovering hidden threats to responding to incidents faster, this integration leverages Microsoft’s event data to help security teams achieve 24x7 comprehensive Microsoft coverage throughout their tool stack.

Organizations of every size can now harness the best of both worlds: the familiarity and depth of their Microsoft environment and the advanced detection, correlation, automation, and forensic response capabilities of Rapid7’s MXDR service.

Importance of Microsoft Event Sources in Today’s Threat Landscape

Microsoft tools are foundational in many organizations’ tech stacks, and help teams collect  security-critical data that can enhance threat detection and incident response. Without an integrated technology stack and 24x7 SOC triage, investigation, and response coverage across the Microsoft tools that teams already rely on, normalizing inputs and pinpointing real signs of attacker behavior can be nearly impossible for teams of all sizes.

By supporting Microsoft event sources as a layer on top of native telemetry provided through the Rapid7 Detection Engine, we’re making it easier for security teams to correlate data across their environment from key areas in their Microsoft toolset.

Teams can now customize their Rapid7 MXDR support to cover triage, investigation, and response to threats across key Microsoft Security tools, including:

  • Microsoft Entra Identity Protection
  • Microsoft Defender for Identity
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Microsoft Defender for O365
  • Microsoft Defender for Vulnerability Management

By incorporating support for Microsoft security tools, Rapid7 MXDR maximizes your existing Microsoft investment, helping your security team stay agile and resilient in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Maintaining our Commitment to Securing Your Attack Surface

We’re on a mission for our MDR service to bring unified visibility to the attack surface and comprehensive defense capabilities to your security program. By extending 24x7 expert SOC coverage to Microsoft Security tools, we’re bringing:

  • Customization through integrating the tools you already rely on with Rapid7’s native telemetry to create a tailored service that layers alert data and accelerates response.
  • Visibility from both native and existing tool telemetry, to eliminate blind spots and respond rapidly to abnormal and malicious activity across your entire attack surface​.
  • Broader response capabilities by extending the insights for the Rapid7 SOC to respond to and contain malicious behavior before it can cause harm to your environment, business, and brand.

Getting Started

As we extend our MXDR service with more comprehensive coverage to meet security teams where they are, we’re excited to partner with you to secure your extended ecosystem. If you’re a Rapid7 MDR customer, reach out to your account team to learn more about our extended coverage. If you’re not a Rapid7 MDR customer yet, request a demo here.