Forescout Platform vs Rapid7 InsightIDR comparison

Forescout and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category. Forescout is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.4, while Rapid7 is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Forescout holds a 0.8% mindshare in XDR, compared to Rapid7’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Forescout users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Forescout Platform and Rapid7 InsightIDR compete in the network security space. Rapid7 InsightIDR has the upper hand due to its feature-rich offerings and effective threat detection capabilities, despite a higher price point.

Features: Forescout Platform is valued for its robust asset inventory, real-time device visibility, and network monitoring capabilities. Rapid7 InsightIDR is favored for advanced analytics, threat detection capabilities, and user behavior analytics. Forescout provides strong network access control, while Rapid7 focuses on threat intelligence.

Room for Improvement: Forescout Platform could improve integration with third-party tools, enhance reporting features, and refine its scalability options. Rapid7 InsightIDR users suggest better alert accuracy, improved dashboard customization, and more straightforward data correlation. Enhancements in these areas could better meet user expectations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Forescout Platform offers a straightforward deployment process but receives mixed reception regarding customer service responsiveness. Rapid7 InsightIDR presents a more complex deployment but is praised for its responsive and helpful customer support team.

Pricing and ROI: Forescout Platform is noted for reasonable setup costs with users reporting promising ROI. Rapid7 InsightIDR, with higher initial costs, is recognized for delivering substantial ROI due to its effective features. Users perceive a positive correlation between investment and feature effectiveness with Rapid7.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Forescout Platform

Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Access Control (NAC) (4th), IoT Security (3rd), Endpoint Compliance (3rd)

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (14th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (25th), Threat Deception Platforms (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category, the mindshare of Forescout Platform is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.9%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Forescout Platform	0.8%
Rapid7 InsightIDR	2.9%
Other	96.3%

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Featured Reviews

Odai Halawani

Sr. Security Engineer at Topvision

It's an easy and effective solution, especially for device profiling without agents

Forescout Platform's most valuable aspect is its excellent device profiling for devices without agents, which is crucial for our work due to challenges with agent-based devices. Its isolation and blocking actions are particularly effective for network security. The device compliance feature helps us ensure device compliance through immediate actions like updating antivirus software. We have already integrated Forescout with antivirus and vulnerability assessment tools, allowing it to monitor vulnerability scores and automatically isolate devices if critical vulnerabilities are detected.

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Asim Naeem

Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd

Providing comprehensive insight into alerts while working towards AI enhancement

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product. Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the Forescout Platform it's highly customizable and flexible."

"Forescout Platform has made it possible to block people working near our construction sites who should not have access to our network."

"The platform enables automated policy enforcement, allowing us to simulate and test policies before enforcement, streamlining our security operations."

"I help customers use the Forescout Platform for compliance enforcement. We can specify what needs to be installed on devices connecting to the network, like antivirus, updates, and security software."

"When users don't have the required updates, security patches, and antivirus, the tool blocks them from our network."

"It allows for good detection of all the vendor products we have on-site."

"We think it's simple. We think it's very useful and we really like reports and everything."

"The most valuable features are remote access and administration scripts."

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"The platform offers unlimited storage and agent-based solutions."

"Another very important part of insightIDR is the ability to collect data from endpoint devices via agent software. With a large remote workforce, this allows visibility into the endpoints that are connected to the internet, but not to the corporate network."

"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. As a cloud tool, the product is highly scalable."

"Simple configuration and automatically syncs to the cloud platform."

"The solution is very stable and works very well for what I need it to do."

"The solution's initial setup is easy."

"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."

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Cons

"The product may not yield any return on investment since it is only used to make your environment more reliable and secure."

"When we automate an email to send to a user, sometimes it gets blocked, but that has nothing to do with Forescout. It depends on the mail gateway that we use or integrate with."

"The biggest disadvantage is the pricing."

"The technical support could be improved in terms of response time and first-level support quality."

"Search - needs boolean functionality (or pseudo operand now working)."

"They should improve features related to IT security. ForeScout should analyze behavior to see if the behavior is malicious behavior and block this device. They should develop the ability to analyze the behavior of the device in my environment."

"The cost is too high."

"The reporting feature needs improvement."

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"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."

"One thing that springs to mind is easier API integration with ITSMs. We are evaluating a new ITSM and I would like to have InsightIDR create a ticket when an attack is identified, and the ticket would be closed in InsightIDR when the ITSM resolution is completed. This would take out the "single point of failure" we currently have, if the email recipient is somehow absent, in recording the risk appetite for the incident and the actions taken to mitigate or not."

"It takes time for the product's support team to resolve issues, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Rapid7 doesn't integrate well with all our security tools from various vendors, so we plan to switch. Many of our solutions work with Rapid7, but some do not. We are already searching for a replacement already."

"Lacks a mobile application."

"I would like to see more development in InsightIDR towards building their SIEM solution and converting it to XDR."

"The main problem lies in the processes within the client's operating systems."

"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For one license, we pay around 3,000 Indian rupees."

"We have a very clear licensing model for business. I don't have to have a Ph.D. to be able to understand the licensing model as you might need for other solutions. If I know exactly what we want, it can tell you which license you need. The solution is easy for purchasing, ordering, and ease of deployment as well."

"I would rate Forescout Platform's pricing as four out of five."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. We have paid for the license for five years. We have integration with Symantec AV for orchestration, and we have an additional license."

"It is expensive because you have to pay for their CSM, the customer's access manager, and their professional services on top of that, and they charge you roughly $400 per hour, which is overhead."

"Licenses are perpetual but can come with renewable support."

"The price of Forescout is reasonable when compared to Cisco ISE."

"They base the license on the number of devices, which is quite misleading."

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"Accurately predict your licensing counts as this is a subscription based product."

"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is a cheaply priced product. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is very cheap, I rate the product's price at seven or eight."

"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."

"The pricing is good, and it is not very expensive."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR charges us based on the endpoints we connect to."

"The pricing and licensing are competitive."

"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering Forescout Platform?

Forescout is a very powerful NAC product that does not rely on port level configuration. It can detect and block unauthorized devices very quickly. But it has a lot of capabilities and really would...

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What advice do you have for others considering Forescout Platform?

I would rate the Forescout Device and Visibility Control Platform at a six out of ten.

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What advice do you have for others considering Forescout Platform?

I recommend doing a compression demo. If people use it, they will buy it. So they have to see the product in place. That's the main recommendation is to do a proof of concept. If they do, they will...

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What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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Also Known As

Forescout Platform, CounterACT for Endpoint Compliance, ForeScout CounterACT

InsightIDR

Overview

Forescout Platform provides today’s busy enterprise organizations with policy and protocol management, workflow coordination, streamlining, and complete device and infrastructure visibility to improve overall network security. The solution also provides concise real-time intelligence of all devices and users on the network. Policy and protocols are delineated using gathered intelligence to facilitate the appropriate levels of remediation, compliance, network access, and all service operations. Forescout Platform is very flexible, integrates well with most of today’s leading network security products, and is a very cost-effective solution.

Forescout Platform Features

Real-time complete visibility: With Forescout eyeSight, each and every device is classified when any attempt to access your network has been made. This includes - but is not limited to - desktops, laptops, android devices, virtual machines, switches, VoIP phones, USB memory sticks, webcams, IoT devices, and more.
Policy-based and manual controls: In today’s busy robust environment, networks are continually changing; there are different types and amounts of devices connected, various software applications, network compliance requirements, and the constant potential for risk make managing an IT network a very daunting challenge. The Forescout Console is used to simplify the administration and management of important alerts, remediation, and access controls to keep the network secure.
Intuitive real-time dashboards: Forescout Dashboards, a component of Forescout WebClient, is a comprehensive web-based intelligence center that gives full visibility and real-time insight of the complete network using both out-of-the-box and user-created widgets. The dashboards are very intuitive and deliver robust, easy-to-understand information about device visibility, compliance, health monitoring, and more.
Advanced reporting capabilities: The Forescout Reports Plugin will generate numerous valuable reports indicating real-time and overall status information about endpoint compliance, device details, networks guests, protocols, and more. The reports help to ensure IT administrators, executives, security teams, and other important shareholders stay well-informed about all network activity at all times.
Comprehensive third-party overview: Forescout eyeExtend facilitates seamless information sharing with third-party vendors, networks, and IT management solutions supporting improved automated workflows, productivity, cost-effectiveness, and overall security.

Real User Reviews

An important main feature of Forescout is the visibility the solution offers.

One reviewer who is a Consultant at a tech services company, says, "Within three or four days, you can have complete visibility of your infrastructure on the network. Compared to other solutions, the deployment of the solution is easier and we can close the project quickly."

Users also appreciate that the user interface is clear and easy to understand.

An Instructor at a tech services company, shares, "The most valuable feature of the Forescout Platform is the large capacity it can handle. Additionally, the interface of the platform is good."

Forescout

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

NHS Sussex, SAP, SEGA, Vistaprint, Miami Children's Hospital, Pioneer Investments, New York Law School, OmnicomGroup, Meritrust

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

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