Rapid7 InsightIDR vs WatchGuard EPDR comparison

Rapid7 and WatchGuard are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Rapid7 is ranked #26 with an average rating of 8.1, while WatchGuard is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.8. Rapid7 holds a 1.2% mindshare in EDR, compared to WatchGuard’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of WatchGuard users who would recommend it.

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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WatchGuard EPDR

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96% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Rapid7 InsightIDR and WatchGuard EPDR compete in the cybersecurity market. Rapid7 InsightIDR appears to have a slight advantage due to its comprehensive features and cost-effectiveness according to user reviews.

Features: Rapid7 InsightIDR offers comprehensive event correlation, threat intelligence, and automated incident investigations. WatchGuard EPDR provides endpoint protection, detection, and response tools, and integrates well with other WatchGuard security appliances.

Room for Improvement: Rapid7 InsightIDR could improve integration with third-party tools, alert management, and user interface. WatchGuard EPDR needs better cloud management, a more streamlined updating process, and enhanced technical support documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Rapid7 InsightIDR is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. WatchGuard EPDR's deployment is efficient but can be challenging, with customer service occasionally experiencing delays in response times.

Pricing and ROI: Rapid7 InsightIDR is seen as cost-effective with satisfactory ROI. WatchGuard EPDR is slightly more expensive but is worth the investment due to its comprehensive security measures and successful integration with existing systems.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

26th

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), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (17th)

WatchGuard EPDR

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WatchGuard EPDR is 1.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

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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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PaolaLamura

SOC & Incident Manager at Retelit

While being easy to manage and create reports, the tool also offers a good UI

I rate the ease of use and management of Panda Adaptive Defense 360 an eight on a scale of one to ten. The tool's ability to provide information about the vulnerability is the most impactful feature of the product that has an impact on our company's security posture. Speaking about scenarios where the solution effectively prevented the security breach, I would say that our company sees how the tool blocks when our customers accidentally click on some malware, after which it quarantines that file. My company makes a playbook with the SOAR tool that Panda Adaptive Defense 360 uses to block and isolate attacks. In our company's system, if there is a big event that occurs, then to block the endpoint, we use SOAR with Panda Adaptive Defense 360 to block and isolate attacks or threats. The solution's real-time monitoring has improved our company's ability to detect threats if we use it in our company with Panda SIEMFeeder. Only if in my company there is a need to do some research, prepare a report, or if we want to change the policy, so it is not very often that we use the visualization part of the tool in our company. The reporting and analytics part of the tool has helped with the decision-making in our company since we combine different kinds of logs and situations from different ingestion logs, and we can configure a specific alert. In my company, we use the tool's data search functionality if required to check the information we need. Presently, our company uses the configuration alert and SIEMFeeder in our system. I rate the tool a nine 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

"InsightIDR helps us investigate an environment to discover information about incidents."

"The ability to ingest Office 365 log files, then process them into events and display them on a map."

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

"The log aggregation and storage provided by InsightIDR has shown no issues with scalability; aggregating over one hundred millions events daily."

"The UI is very good."

"The solution's initial setup is easy."

"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."

"The solution provides satisfying native integration features"

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"It is stable, and the performance is good."

"Great technical support staff."

"The detection capabilities for malicious activities are effective."

"It is easy to manage."

"The most valuable feature is the web filter application control."

"The reporting feature is valuable."

"It's very easy to deploy, we don't have any problem or issues. It's most full automatic. It basically takes the assumption that everything is supposed to be a suspect; files, processes, URL accesses, and so on."

"Adaptive Defense is pretty easy to use, and Panda support is excellent."

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Cons

"Cloud risk assessment is one area where I think they need a lot of improvement."

"There is a future in AI with Rapid7, however, it is not fully operated. There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"The dashboard is an area that could be simplified."

"They should add more configuration and security features to it."

"The solution needs improvement in threat intelligence. Increasing the depth of intelligence to help users understand more about threats is a possibility. My suggestion is to expand access to other websites or resources."

"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."

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

"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

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"Their MacOS support isn't that good."

"The solution should have additional endpoint protection."

"The product is available at a very high price, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Occasionally, we suffer from little bugs that give us the wrong message."

"WatchGuard EPDR does have areas for improvement. One significant gap is the lack of a virtual patching feature integrated into the endpoint security. This would be particularly useful for endpoints running operating systems that are no longer supported, such as Windows 7."

"Panda Security Adaptive Defense can improve by including the intrusion and prevention system not only on their most expensive platform. Additionally, it blocks software that is legitimate from users. They complain and then we have to manually unblock the software, by hash, or we receive a message. Some of the prevention features are not available and this might cause us to need a separate firewall or something to protect the company."

"It needs some improvements in the DNS security feature. Currently, it does not have full DNS security. It only has semi-DNS security, which can be improved. It is an important feature for us, and it would be really good if they can improve the DNS security feature. Our group has some plans to change to Cisco AMP, which has features such as DNS, Umbrella. We are trying to learn about Cisco AMP and compare it with Panda."

"Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is not compatible with certain network devices like access points, switches, or routers, which would be an area for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, but none that meet so many of our needs whilst maintaining stability and usability."

"Licensing is straightforward. If, for some reason, you don’t meet the minimum licensing requirements, there is a third-party managed service that 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."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing and licensing are competitive."

"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."

"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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"The price is excellent."

"The licensing costs are not too high. We pay about 20 Euros a year. It's a reasonable amount to pay."

"The solution is priced well for what features it provides."

"The licensing is subscription-based and priced well compared to other endpoint security solutions."

"Customers need to pay monthly licensing costs for Panda Security Adaptive Defense, which is not expensive."

"I don't think Panda's license is too expensive, but they're charging more than it's worth. It's a yearly license. For 1,000 endpoints, it's around $18,000."

"Panda is cloud-only and comes at a reasonable cost. It is a set price per seat."

"The price of this solution depends on the number of licenses that you are purchasing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Hospitality Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about WatchGuard EPDR?

The product's most valuable features are the zero-trust application service and its capability to detect threats and attacks.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WatchGuard EPDR?

I think the pricing is normal because we subscribe for three years. Regarding pricing, I am not sure because I did not compare it with other antivirus; maybe it is pricey.

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What needs improvement with WatchGuard EPDR?

I have no idea if I use some automation functions. I can't find any disadvantages; maybe that is because many companies haven't used it. I would prefer to see some features such as AI in antivirus ...

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Also Known As

InsightIDR

Panda Adaptive Defense 360

Overview

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

EDR for continuous monitoring that prevents the execution of unknown processes. Behavioral analysis and detection of IoAs (indicators of attack) scripts, macros, etc.
Automatic detection and response for targeted attacks and in-memory exploits. Endpoint protection capabilities such as URL filtering, device control and managed firewall.
Zero-Trust Application and Threat Hunting features delivered as managed services. Lightweight agent and easy-to-use Cloud-based console with detailed reporting.

WatchGuard

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

Indra, Valea AB, Fineit, Aemcom, Data Solutions INC., Gloucestershire NHS, Golden Star Resources Ltd, Hispania Racing Team, Instituto Dos Museus e da ConserÊo, Escuelas Pias Provincia Emaus, Axiom Housing Association, Municipality of Bjuv, Lesedi Nuclear, Mullsj_ municipality, Eng. skolan Norr AB, Dalakraft AB, Peter Green Haulage Ltd

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