InsightIDR - Next-gen SIEM

I am working with Rapid7 InsightOps  and Rapid7 InsightIDR  because the requirement is as such from the customer side, particularly the banks. Whatever the requirement is, these are the products that we are working with.

I usually recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR  for banks because that is the bigger chunk here who do business in cybersecurity or whose requirement is that compliance requirements need to be filled by certain products, which Rapid7 InsightIDR is one of them.

UEBA  is an important element these days, but usually the requirement is for threat detection, investigation, and response. This is what Rapid7 InsightIDR provides.

Banks typically go for threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities. End-user entity and behavior analysis, or UEBA , is certainly an important addition if we provide the solution along with UEBA. It provides that and this is something that the customer cannot ignore because they want to have a 360-degree coverage of their emails or for their users and what they are doing. This is definitely their requirement.

If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm , it is not as customizable as a SIEM  solution is. This is where it can improve if we keep in front the feature sets of a complete SIEM  solution. Most common in the market is QRadar, but it is depleting now. It has been taken over by some other products such as Splunk and LogRhythm . If we compare these things with Rapid7 InsightIDR, then there are definitely some gaps that need to be filled.

Data retention is also one concern because Rapid7 InsightIDR is cloud-based and operates on a subscription model. Whatever data you want to retain, it has to be paid for separately or it has a cost. Other solutions that are on-premises can have their own infrastructure or they provide some data retention for a month or in some capacity-wise, they provide that solution to them which makes them more attractive.

It has been about four to five years now that we have been working with Rapid7. Whatever the products, they were all related to vulnerability tools that we have been working with. It has been a journey of about five years with Rapid7.

Rapid7 InsightIDR is budget-friendly and has a good market position because not everybody can afford to go for LogRhythm or Splunk or QRadar. It is good for a middle-tier organization. In that market, there is competition now.

I do not recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR for bigger companies because they trust these big brands such as QRadar or LogRhythm. The general perception is that these are the solutions for big organizations having hundreds of branches or more. Rapid7 InsightIDR fits in the middle tier.

The integration of Rapid7 InsightIDR with the security stack works fine because the systems in this part of the world are not so much cloud-driven. They have something around 20% or 30% of services running from the cloud. The rest are usually on-premises. Office 365  is one service that they get from the cloud. Networking typically includes Cisco and Fortinet in their networks. For endpoints, the operating system is usually Windows or Linux, not Mac in an enterprise environment. Windows and Linux can be easily integrated with this solution.

The dashboard functionalities of Rapid7 InsightIDR are usually about customer-friendliness. Customers want to have some rich enrichment of the analysis or the ticket alerts or the events that come out with some processing behind the scenes. They feel that it is a more rapid or more intense process at Splunk or LogRhythm or QRadar compared to Rapid7 InsightIDR.

For automated threat intelligence features, customers usually go for a full SOAR  solution. They want to have playbooks and everything to run. Although Rapid7 InsightIDR does claim that it has integrated SOAR , called InsightConnect, this is not as advanced as a dedicated SOAR solution. LogRhythm solutions or Splunk solution or Sumo Logic solution are doing business here as well. These are considered more rich in features compared to Rapid7 InsightIDR.

I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR between a six and seven out of ten.

I am using Rapid7 InsightIDR  as an InsightIDR  solution. This tool is integrated with other solutions like endpoint and NDR, and it correlates alerts, giving me a comprehensive picture of the alerts.

The platform offers unlimited storage and agent-based solutions. I have user behavior analytics (UBA ) and MITRE ATT&CK as well. The user behavior analytics feature helps in enhancing the security posture by helping to identify user behaviors and engineering alerts based on them.

There is a future in AI with Rapid7, however, it is not fully operated. There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on. I have already opened a list of features with Rapid7, and they are working on it.

I have been using Rapid7 InsightIDR for about two years.

So far, I have not had any performance issues with Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is working well, and I have not faced any downtime in the last two years.

Every  product has some limitations, and Rapid7 is no exception, yet it is working for me perfectly right now.

I rate their technical team 8.5 out of ten, which is pretty good.

Currently, I am not working with the LogRhythm  solution. I have another SIEM  solution in place. Previously, three years back, I was working with LogRhythm , however, now I do not.

The initial setup was straightforward, and I did not face any complexities during the setup of the IDR product.

The incident response time is good, and I can easily find or search any incident. I easily build the queries in Rapid7 and search my relevant logs or relevant investigation logs.

I have EDR, XDR , NDR, TLP, and many other solutions like these.

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product.

Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.