Rapid7 Acquires Kenzo Security to Accelerate Preemptive, AI-Powered Security Operations

Acquisition expands Rapid7’s Command Platform to deliver scalable, machine-speed detection and response that disrupts attackers

Rapid7, Inc, a global leader in AI-powered managed cybersecurity operations, announced it has acquired Kenzo Security, an agentic AI security platform built to scale autonomous security investigations. The acquisition further enhances the Rapid7 Command Platform, accelerating industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) services from AI-assisted workflows to AI-driven, machine-speed security operations.

Today, most security operations are only able to investigate a fraction of the alerts their environments generate. Scale limitations keep organizations in reactive mode against attackers: manually investigating high and critical signals across fragmented telemetry while nearly half of alerts go unexamined. This model limits scale and consistency, putting added strain on already stretched security teams, while many promises of AI super-productivity are not yet realized.

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“Reactive security models have reached their limits,” said Corey Thomas, CEO of Rapid7. “Attackers are using AI to move faster, attack surface complexity is accelerating, and security teams are expected to improve outcomes without additional resources. Kenzo Security advances our mission to enable security operations that preempt attackers with predictive precision and machine-scale.”

Kenzo Security integrates, normalizes, and unifies security data in its entity-centric data mesh to power multi-agent analysis, enabling autonomous alert investigations with intelligent rule tuning and dynamic playbooks. By using multiple AI agents that work together while specializing in different security operations tasks, Kenzo is able to drive high-impact outcomes supporting all SOC functions. An average customer reported a 94% reduction in investigation time, and their alert coverage increased from 12% to 100%.

“We built Kenzo Security as a revolutionary AI platform designed to help organizations manage security in ways that were not possible before,” said Partha Naidu, chief product officer and co-founder of Kenzo Security. “In customer deployments, we’ve seen investigation time shrink from hours to minutes, and instead of sampling or prioritizing a subset, the platform scales to investigate every alert end-to-end.”

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By integrating Kenzo’s data mesh with Rapid7’s Command Platform and embedding Kenzo Security’s proprietary AI models across MDR operations, organizations will benefit from:

• Full coverage at machine speed: AI-led workflows automatically investigate and correlate alerts at machine speed, compressing time to detection and response.
• Scalable, dynamic investigations: The platform seamlessly ingests, triages, and investigates new and evolving threats while correlating activity across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, and third-party data to uncover anomalies without additional human effort.
• 100% decision transparency: As workloads shift to AI agents, predictable results and auditable decisions are essential to build trust and confidence in autonomous processes.
• Analysts decide, AI agents do: Designed to be configurable and adaptable, analysts determine the key points where human decisions are important to their processes, while everything else can run seamlessly.
• Continuous exposure management: Agentic workflows continuously identify and prioritize exposures across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments, connecting risk signals to active threats to accelerate remediation and reduce attack surface.

Ultimately, organizations will experience significantly lower manual strain and more consistent, precise investigations that strengthen their confidence and their organization’s cyber resilience.

“Our vision for AI-powered cybersecurity is in lockstep with Rapid7’s data-centric approach,” said Harish Singh, CEO and co-founder of Kenzo Security. “Our integrated models will act as a continuous engine that improves outcomes in real time, while the reach of Rapid7’s global customer base will accelerate the accuracy and effectiveness of Kenzo’s technology. I’m excited about the results that we will deliver together.”

This acquisition advances Rapid7’s commitment to delivering preemptive, managed cybersecurity operations that empower customers to reduce risk and respond to threats at the speed of modern attacks. Kenzo Security’s AI-SOC technology reinforces Rapid7’s continued investment in combining machine-speed automation with human expertise to drive the best possible security outcomes.

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