Cisco XDR vs. Rapid7 InsightIDR

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco XDR	Score 6.9 out of 10	N/A	A solution to uncover sophisticated attacks and leverage machine learning to prioritize incidents across multiple security controls based on risk score and asset value. Streamlines incident response by simplifying preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery, which can involve anything from adding a worknote to implementing an automated response.	N/A
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

Cisco XDR

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Editions & Modules

Cisco XDR Essentials: Contact Sales
per user
Cisco XDR Advantage: Contact Sales
per user
Cisco XDR Premier: Contact Sales
per user

InsightIDR Advanced: $5.89
per month per asset

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There are three License tiers in which Cisco XDR is available: Essentials, Advantage, and Premier (licensed per user). Cisco XDR Essentials delivers the full XDR features and integrates across the Cisco Security portfolio, with a few exceptions. Cisco XDR Advantage builds upon the capabilities delivered in Essentials by adding Cisco-curated integrations with select third-party security tools. Cisco XDR Premier delivers the full Advantage capabilities as a Managed Service provided by Cisco security experts and includes security validation through penetration testing and select Cisco Talos Incident Response services. Data retention: A data retention period of 90 days is included by default. Customers can purchase additional retention periods of 180 or 365 days. Data ingestion: Each tier includes a data ingestion limit of 2GB per user per month. Customers can purchase additional GBs beyond the 2GB default, measured in units of GB per user per month.

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

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cisco XDR	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Considered Both Products	Cisco XDR Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR Cisco XDR is great for companies that primarily run Cisco and provides a more seamless integration than Qradar both in terms of identify risks and mitigating them. Cisco XDR also provides insight through Cisco Talos and gives the end users ability to customize their work flow … Incentivized Helpful? JG Jefferson Green Information Security Analyst Chose Cisco XDR It integrates nicely with Secure Endpoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR External User Manager for Microsoft Teams Incentivized Helpful? FM Florentino Martinez Gragera IT speialist Chose Cisco XDR Cisco Secure Network Analytics Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR Exabeam is a full blown SIEM and XDR. Cisco XDR will suit users are looking to get XDR feature without SIEM Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR While both products were both easy to use and would have fit our environment, we are a very heavy Cisco shop and Cisco Cisco XDR fit better with the rest of our software portfolio. Stellar Cyber has some additional functionality in addition to Cisco XDR but the cost difference … 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?

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User Ratings
	Cisco XDR	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco XDR	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	It is well suited for environments that have a large mix of Cisco products and popular software packages. As a SaaS application it doesn't require much for a local footprint but at the same time won't work in an environment that requires your security tools to store data or run locally. 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	Providing visibility for threat risks Detecting holes in the network that have vulnerabilites Flagging ddos events and kicking off an incident response 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	XDR can improve with more integrations XDR can be improved with more programmability for the end user XDR can be improved with more options to mitigate events 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	Cisco XDR is great for companies that primarily run Cisco and provides a more seamless integration than Qradar both in terms of identify risks and mitigating them. Cisco XDR also provides insight through Cisco Talos and gives the end users ability to customize their work flow to threat hunt according to their business needs. 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	XDR helps contain a security incident event to reduce business impact XDR provides real time visibility to alert the business on security risks XDR provides ways to mitigate threats 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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