Across industries, Microsoft is everywhere. It powers productivity, collaboration, and security through Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem that underpins how modern organizations operate.

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As organizations deepen their Microsoft investments, there’s an even greater opportunity to strengthen and simplify threat detection and response. Microsoft delivers powerful visibility and security insights across user identities, endpoints, and cloud workloads, but security teams often need help bringing those capabilities together with the rest of their environment to ensure that data, detections, and decisions that drive their threat detection and response program align seamlessly. 

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That’s where Rapid7 comes in.

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A shared vision for simplified, unified security

We’re excited to announce the launch of an expanded partnership between Rapid7 and Microsoft, focused on helping organizations fully realize the potential of their Microsoft security investments. Together, we’re building a unified approach to threat detection and response that combines Microsoft’s ecosystem and scale with Rapid7’s AI-native security operations platform and decades of SOC expertise.

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Our shared goal: help customers protect their businesses with clarity, speed, and confidence.

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For many organizations, Microsoft is the backbone of their IT and security programs. But it’s only one part of a larger, interconnected environment. Security leaders need a way to bring Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, and Entra data into context with the rest of their infrastructure, cloud, and SaaS investments. Rapid7 helps make that possible by connecting Microsoft’s advanced telemetry and analytics with broader visibility and context into all security data, automation, and 24/7 expert-led managed operations.

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We’ve long incorporated deep Microsoft visibility across the Command Platform, integrating with tools across different use cases, such as attack surface management, exposure management, cloud security, and application security. This foundation already allows us to correlate insights across on-premises and cloud environments, including Active Directory, Azure, and Microsoft 365 – providing outcomes across endpoints, workloads, and applications. These capabilities unify context from more than a dozen different Microsoft and Azure tools, giving customers a complete picture of risk across their environment. 

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This partnership combines Microsoft Defender’s signal depth with Rapid7’s threat intelligence, automation, and human-led operations to deliver complete visibility and coordinated response across your environment – from Microsoft to everything it touches.

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This means:

• Unified security operations managed for you: Rapid7 delivers 24x7 monitoring, investigation, and response across Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments, combining Defender insights with our own detection and response workflows to act quickly on what matters most.

• Faster, smarter response: AI-driven correlation and human-led expertise reduce alert noise and accelerate containment when threats arise.

• Simplified, predictable operations: Our managed detection and response (MDR) service removes ingestion complexity so you can focus on security outcomes.

• Transparency and trust: Built in through seamless integration with the Microsoft consoles security teams already use.

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A foundation for what’s next

Over the coming months, we'll introduce new capabilities that make it easier for customers to operationalize Microsoft security within the Rapid7 ecosystem, including unified MDR coverage across the Defender products that protect the key vectors of endpoint, identity, cloud, and email.

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These enhancements will enable organizations to not only respond to Microsoft-based threats faster but also proactively reduce risk across their entire environment through unified detection, investigation, and response.

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We’re excited for this next step in advancing our MDR services to meet Microsoft customers where they are and maximize their investments with comprehensive visibility, faster response, and measurable security outcomes.

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We’ll be releasing more information soon. In the meantime, learn more about Rapid7’s leading MDR service here.