We’re excited to share that Rapid7 has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, Q3 2025. The report evaluates 10 of the most significant UVM vendors across criteria like strategy, current offering, and customer feedback.
A core belief at Rapid7 is that modern security teams need a unified platform strategy to manage and remediate vulnerabilities, from endpoint to cloud, as part of a wider exposure management strategy.
Our Exposure Command solution is built to deliver this as part of our wider Command Platform, with core elements like the Remediation Hub, which prioritizes risk signals across complex, hybrid environments – providing our customers with actionable insights, and enabling them to take command of potential risks and exposures.
The Forrester report states: “Rapid7 is best for organizations looking for a cost-effective strategic partner that can support proactive and reactive security programs.”
The evaluation also discusses the reporting and response challenges arising from fragmentation and the need for a centralized repository to mitigate risk.
Exposure Command provides users a unified view of their organization’s attack surface, combining asset inventory, risk assessment, and vulnerability management across hybrid and cloud environments. Actionable insights are surfaced through unified, persona-oriented reporting with platform-wide exception management, ensuring programs can be effectively scoped to align with core business needs.
Findings from the report
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We’re proud to have earned the highest possible score in the “Community” criterion, which we see as a reflection of Rapid7’s continued commitment to open source, including initiatives like Metasploit, threat research, and practitioner education.
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Rapid7 also received the highest possible scores in two other criteria, pricing flexibility & transparency and data normalization. We believe these scores are thanks to our predictable asset-based pricing model.
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Strong fit for SecOps programs: to us, this recognition from Forrester is a reinforcement of the value that our Command Platform delivers to teams looking to consolidate and modernize their security stack.
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Built for the future of exposure management.
The vulnerability management space is shifting fast. Organizations no longer want vulnerability data – they need risk context, hybrid visibility, threat-informed prioritization, and streamlined remediation workflows.
Find out more about how Rapid7 is helping customers adapt to that future with:
- Continuous attack surface and exposure discovery: Monitor your internal and external assets through one unified platform, eliminating blind spots that stem from stitching together vulnerability findings from disparate tools.
- Seamless validation at the scoring level: Cut through the noise with vulnerability scans integrated with Active Risk, a dynamic risk score that combines AI-powered insights and business context with intelligence from Rapid7 Labs to determine exploitability.
- Holistic vulnerability management: Eliminate redundant vulnerability findings and swivel-chairing by consolidating risk findings from disparate security tools into a centralized platform.
- Solution-oriented prioritization: Quickly mobilize risk remediation by leveraging a continuous, threat-aware view of every asset that lacks endpoint protection or patch management strategies.
- Native, no-code automated remediation: Confidently mitigate risks, accelerate response, and eliminate unnecessary manual effort by leveraging hundreds of native integrations that automate ticketing, patching, and response orchestration.
We’re just getting started. With our continued innovation in risk prioritization and deepened support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, we’re laser-focused on making vulnerability management smarter, faster, and more operationally impactful.
Whether you’re looking to modernize your VM program, consolidate your exposure view, or improve remediation velocity, Rapid7 offers a platform that meets you where you are – and scales as you grow.
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