Last updated at Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:23:02 GMT

Co-athored by Mikayla Wyman and Ryan Blanchard

As organizations increasingly rely on AWS for scalability and innovation, the complexity of securing these environments grows. AWS offers a robust set of native services and a comprehensive ecosystem, but managing security signals and responding to threats across dynamic workloads can overwhelm even the most well-equipped teams.

Rapid7’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) service has focused on helping customers bridge this gap, unifying security telemetry from major cloud service providers including AWS and Azure, with expert-driven detection and response. With MXDR, organizations can confidently scale their cloud investments without sacrificing the comprehensive coverage they’re familiar with today.

Tailored to AWS Workloads and Modern Cloud Security Challenges

MXDR delivers the context and coverage needed to handle complex threats in AWS environments, providing a purpose-built service to address the specific challenges of securing modern cloud environments. With the extension of MXDR for AWS, teams can tailor their Rapid7 MXDR support to include triage, investigation, and response for critical GuardDuty alerts directly within their MDR service.

Layering native AWS telemetry with insights from other tools and environments creates a centralized, unified view of your security posture. With this context, our team is able to tailor protections and actions to the unique needs of your environment, safeguarding your assets more effectively against evolving threats. This comprehensive perspective empowers Rapid7 MDR analysts to operate at peak efficiency, ensuring your organization experiences a robust incident response lifecycle, from initial detection and alert triage to containment and response.

Augmenting Your Security Team with a Fleet of CDR Experts

Protecting your AWS environment doesn’t need to be a solo effort. With Rapid7 MXDR, you gain access to our extensive team of seasoned MDR analysts who diligently monitor, triage, and respond to incidents in real time, reducing operational burden. With an expert MDR team on call, teams are ready to contain incidents and limit blast radius. Customized mitigation and response strategies for AWS workloads, aligned with your unique environment and risk tolerance enables our team to provide clear insights, remediation guidance and future mitigation recommendations to improve security and drive executive buy-in for security investments.

By deeply integrating cloud risk context from our industry-leading CNAPP capabilities into the incident response workflow, our MDR analysts are equipped with environmental awareness needed to act more quickly on your behalf to stop attackers in their tracks.

Rapid7 MXDR eliminates the need for piecemeal tools and processes by delivering end-to-end security services that combine AWS-native telemetry with cross-platform intelligence. The result is comprehensive threat detection and mitigation across your AWS environments without the complexity of managing multiple tools, providing:

  • Cloud Attack Surface Visibility and Advanced Threat Detection: Correlating AWS telemetry with global threat intelligence to build a dynamic map of your environment, uncover sophisticated attacks and spot avenues for lateral movement.
  • Continuous Coverage and Proactive Threat Hunting: Lean on our team of seasoned SOC experts who monitor, triage, and respond to incidents in real time, reducing operational burden.
  • Visibility into Cloud Identities, Their Permissions and Privileges: Monitor all cloud accounts and identities and proactively spot anomalous and potentially malicious user behavior, privilege escalations, or unusual API calls.
  • AI-Assisted Triage with Risk-Aware Context: Automatic context enrichment for cloud alerts with the relevant information SOC analysts need to understand the posture of a compromised account or resource and prioritize response.

Take Command of Your AWS Security Today

Whether you’re protecting critical workloads or responding to active threats, Rapid7 MXDR enables organizations to secure their AWS environments with confidence. From continuous monitoring to expert response, Rapid7 ensures your AWS assets remain protected while allowing your team to focus on driving business innovation.

Contact Rapid7 today to see how MXDR can elevate your AWS security posture.