Blumira vs. Rapid7 InsightIDR

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blumira	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Blumira’s cloud SIEM platform offers both automated threat detection and response, enabling organizations of any size to more defend against cybersecurity threats in near real-time. It's goal is to ease the burden of alert fatigue, complexity of log management and lack of IT visibility.	$12 per month per employee
InsightIDR	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	In addition to their incident response service, Rapid7 offers InsightIDR, a combined XDR and SIEM that provides user behavior and threat analytics.	$5.89 per month per asset

Pricing

Blumira

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Editions & Modules

SIEM Starter: $12
per month per employee
SIEM +: $16
per month per employee
XDR Platform: $21
per month per employee

InsightIDR Advanced: $5.89
per month per asset

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Blumira	InsightIDR
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing is based on the total number of “employees” or knowledge workers in an organization (it does not refer to the number of users or admins with Blumira accounts). A knowledge worker is an employee with a corporate email address and workstation/device (may not include number of factory workers or students at a university).

*500 asset minimum. Billed annually. All amounts are shown in U.S. dollars. International prices vary.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Blumira	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Considered Both Products	Blumira Verified User Anonymous Chose Blumira Blumira is "right-sized" for my small organization. It is not a strain on our resources (people, system, or monetary). It gives us exactly what we needed. Incentivized Helpful?	InsightIDR Azhar Chaudri Cyber Security Training Specialist Chose InsightIDR N/A Incentivized Helpful? Varun Khare Senior Analyst Chose InsightIDR The biggest advantage it has the lightweight agent and smooth and less traffic chaos in network during log collection. Cloud Security always require extra efforts but InsightIDR reduce that burden as it has highly anticipated agents to which knows what they need to do when they … Incentivized Helpful? AE Allan Crittenden Edwards Security Analyst Chose InsightIDR Other products are OK, but they lack the robust permissions and their interfaces are much much less intuitive. Rapid7's prioritization system for vulnerabilities makes more sense given their context as the developers of Metasploit. We thought we might be able to switch and save … Incentivized Helpful? Bhuwan Chandra Business Development Manager Chose InsightIDR We tried other solutions, but our Network, which is mostly in different locations with different OEMS , was well suited by Rapid7. Rapid7 works with different workflows and SIEM solutions, which was a requirement of the SOC solution. Visibility allows the security operation to … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Goodhue Network Security Specialist Chose InsightIDR Have not used other tools Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Many of the top-tier providers of this technology do a comparable job. However, we selected Rapid7 because of their reputation in the area of user behavior analytics, cost, # of SOC locations (due to our selection of their MDR service), support, company growth in other areas … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Both products would do what we needed them to, but Rapid7 InsightIDR made more sense from a cost perspective. We did a proof of concept of both products, and they were pretty evenly matched in their own ways. Forescout had a better interface, but in the end the interface of … Incentivized Helpful? SS SP Singh Sr. DE/ML Chose InsightIDR None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Between Rapid7 InsightIDR and Crowdstrike, we liked Rapid7 InsightIDR due to the functionality of the system and the features Rapid7 InsightIDR has. Rapid7 InsightIDR was very easy to deploy in our environment to our endpoint devices. We like the scanning capabilities and the … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Blumira

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	Blumira 8.8 Ratings 13% above category average	Rapid7 InsightIDR - Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Correlation	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data integration/API management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Blumira	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Small Businesses	LevelBlue USM Anywhere Score 3.7 out of 10	SentinelOne Singularity Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Blumira	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Blumira	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	Blumira is great for a small IT team in a small to medium sized environment. It gives you unlimited logging (no limit on the number of logs sent) and doesn't require advanced knowledge or expertise in SIEMs to get the system up and running. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has been brilliant for us in terms of understanding the behaviour affecting our endpoints and assets. We have full visibility of our alerts, which menas we can act on them immediately. We use a single pain of glass with dashboards that can be easily drilled down into to get further information. It has laso helped us eo create bespoke reports for senios Managmeent, while at the same time supports other teams like Network Mnagement and Operations. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Cyber Security Training Specialist Read full review
Pros	The user interface (for managing, reporting) is intuitive and is easy to use The setup / onboarding process was very easy Support has been wonderful (and personal) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Rapid7 InsightIDR does a very good job at keeping virus definitions up to date so that our threat intelligence is very up to date when knowing what to protect against. It helps us by scanning all of our infrastructure components and highlights where improvements need to be made in security so we can be proactive with our security initiatives. It has automated response mechanisms to triage and resolve any potentials risks allowing us to save time in the long run. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	We've had a few suggestions for improving some of the built-in "workflows" -- steps that we are instructed to take by Blumira for specific "findings" There are a few improvements about reporting I'd like to see Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sometimes Rapid7 InsightIDR will be too locked down and without knowing will block applications and processes needed for day to day operation. System scans with Rapid7 InsightIDR can be very bandwidth-heavy on the network and system resources. From a recent incident, we have seen more and more false positives from Rapid7 InsightIDR on areas that we know are secure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Blumira is "right-sized" for my small organization. It is not a strain on our resources (people, system, or monetary). It gives us exactly what we needed Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Between Rapid7 InsightIDR and Crowdstrike, we liked Rapid7 InsightIDR due to the functionality of the system and the features Rapid7 InsightIDR has. Rapid7 InsightIDR was very easy to deploy in our environment to our endpoint devices. We like the scanning capabilities and the console we felt was very easy to use and can be easily caught up to our IT staff. Also during vulnerability scans, we felt that Rapid7 InsightIDR was able to detect more and any competitor out there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Now when we have a security audit or need to completed a cybersecurity insurance application, we answer "Yes" to the "Do you have a SIEM?" question. It has provided awareness and visibility of events and situations on our system that we were completely blind to before. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Rapid7 InsightIDR has allowed us to be proactive in securing our systems as the vulnerability scans give us a lens at what we need to fortify when it comes to security. In recent incidents its allowed us to save time and money as it mostly detects issues accurately and we are able to bring systems back quickly without too much downtime for the business. With recent updates, we are confident that Rapid7 InsightIDR is a good solution for the long run as they are always making adjustments to their platform and improving it with every release. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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