Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Rapid7 InsightVM pros and cons

Vendor: Rapid7

4.0 out of 5

59 reviews
88% willing to recommend

1,874 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Rapid7 InsightVM excels in robust vulnerability scanning with minimal false positives and integrates with systems like VMware NSX. It offers customizable dashboards and scalable solutions suitable for various organization sizes. Users appreciate the data analysis features but desire more customizable reporting and ad-hoc scanning improvements. Challenges include slow technical support and high pricing, mainly targeting enterprises. InsightVM lacks patch management, limiting its function beyond vulnerability detection.

Buyer's Guide

Get pricing advice, tips, use cases and valuable features from real users of this product.

Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Rapid7 InsightVM is praised for its comprehensive dashboards where users can customize views with widgets and heat maps to gain practical insights into vulnerabilities present in their organizations.

The advanced reporting capabilities provided by Rapid7 InsightVM are considered highly valuable, delivering various forms of reports that help in informed decision-making and effective management.

The tool's ability to instantly detect new devices connected to the network and assess them for vulnerabilities is highly regarded, ensuring continuous security monitoring and risk management.

Rapid7 InsightVM features robust integration options, notably with VMware NSX, enhancing its utility in diverse IT environments and thereby supporting scalability and performance.

The risk scoring feature of Rapid7 InsightVM is highlighted as particularly useful, helping security officers to prioritize actions based on the severity and potential impact of each vulnerability.

CONS

Rapid7 InsightVM has weak reporting features, lacking customization and sufficient templates, making it difficult to pinpoint specific assets for generating reports.

There are issues with false positives in Rapid7 InsightVM, affecting the accuracy and reliability of reports.

Rapid7 InsightVM lacks patch management capabilities, as it identifies vulnerabilities but does not provide patching solutions.

Technical support for Rapid7 InsightVM can be slow, impacting the timely resolution of issues and updates on ticket statuses.

There are limitations in the integration of Rapid7 InsightVM with other solutions, including the need for better collaboration with third-party tools like JIRA and more API calls.

Rapid7 InsightVM Pros review quotes

Director of Cyber Security (CISO) at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Sep 27, 2020

It is good and fits well with pretty much all of our use case needs.

Read full review

RW

IT Security Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 24, 2020

There are many integrations with things like the VMware NSX that are great, the reporting is really solid.

Read full review

reviewer1397976

Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Dec 8, 2020

I liked the dashboard on it. I could customize my dashboard with different widgets and different heat maps.

Read full review

Rapid7 InsightVM

Free Report: Rapid7 InsightVM Reviews and More

Learn what your peers think about Rapid7 InsightVM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.

816,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.

DH

IT Manager at Hermanus Investments, LLC

Jul 2, 2024

The most valuable features of the solution are the agent and the scanning.

Read full review

Technical Consultant at Yip Intsoi

Jun 15, 2020

The most important aspect of the solution is that it rarely gives false positives, especially compared to other products. It provides very clear reports for our IT teams to look at.

Read full review

reviewer1043379

Chief Executive Officer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

Oct 18, 2022

The cost is what is most valuable. Compared to the other products on the market, the cost is more palatable.

Read full review

Information Security Senior Expert (Founding member, African Cybersecurity Center) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 7, 2019

The most valuable feature for us is the different types of reporting it provides.

Read full review

reviewer1388853

Marketing Expert at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Apr 8, 2024

The product's initial setup phase was very easy.

Read full review

reviewer1377543

Director of Information Technology at a government with 201-500 employees

Aug 9, 2020

The main functionality of identifying item endpoints that weren't properly patched or had vulnerabilities is the solution's most valuable feature.

Read full review

UdayaSri Kariyawasam

Engineering Lead - DevOps at Persistent Systems

Apr 28, 2022

One of the most valuable features is it's graphical dashboard feature. It is quite easy to manage the widgets, and we can customize those according to our queries.

Read full review

Show 10 more reviews (out of 57)

Rapid7 InsightVM Cons review quotes

Director of Cyber Security (CISO) at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Sep 27, 2020

The product does not have the capability to do dynamic scanning of non-web applications.

Read full review

RW

IT Security Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 24, 2020

Some difficulties with the online reporting and lack of integrations.

Read full review

reviewer1397976

Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Dec 8, 2020

I would say that it improved our visibility, but it left things open.

Read full review

Rapid7 InsightVM

Free Report: Rapid7 InsightVM Reviews and More

Learn what your peers think about Rapid7 InsightVM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: November 2024.

816,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.

DH

IT Manager at Hermanus Investments, LLC

Jul 2, 2024

I think the improvement in the tool should be to provide a better update to users because sometimes the information within the cloud and the scanner are not synchronized very fast.

Read full review

Technical Consultant at Yip Intsoi

Jun 15, 2020

There needs to be much clearer instructions surrounding scanning.

Read full review

reviewer1043379

Chief Executive Officer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

Oct 18, 2022

We are a registered reseller and a trusted partner. However, for us to get any support from them I can't log a call directly with Rapid7 InsightVM. I have to work with the distributor to log the call for me.

Read full review

Information Security Senior Expert (Founding member, African Cybersecurity Center) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 7, 2019

This solution integrates with another module in Metasploit, that doesn't exist in the other solutions. It is subscribed to on our roadmap, but we chose to implement both Nexppose and AppSpider.

Read full review

reviewer1388853

Marketing Expert at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Apr 8, 2024

There are certain limitations because of the product being used on a hybrid model. Rapid7 InsightVM doesn't offer a solution purely in the cloud.

Read full review

reviewer1377543

Director of Information Technology at a government with 201-500 employees

Aug 9, 2020

We found that after you passed an endpoint, it didn't always reflect it in the next scan. I'm not sure if it was a glitch or some issue with the product's software. That was never clear. That was always an issue and something that definitely needed improvement.

Read full review

UdayaSri Kariyawasam

Engineering Lead - DevOps at Persistent Systems

Apr 28, 2022

Within InsightVM, there is no feature to assign a ticket. If we can have more API calls, we can do that from InsightVM.

Read full review

Show 10 more reviews (out of 54)

Product Categories

Product Categories

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Popular Comparisons

Popular Comparisons

Qualys VMDR vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Tenable Security Center vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Tenable Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Armis vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Nucleus vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Arctic Wolf Managed Risk vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) vs Rapid7 InsightVM

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform vs Rapid7 InsightVM

SecureWorks Taegis VDR vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Fortra's Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

See all alternatives

Product Categories

Product Categories

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Popular Comparisons

Popular Comparisons

Qualys VMDR vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Tenable Security Center vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Tenable Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Armis vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Nucleus vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Arctic Wolf Managed Risk vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) vs Rapid7 InsightVM

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform vs Rapid7 InsightVM

SecureWorks Taegis VDR vs Rapid7 InsightVM

Fortra's Vulnerability Management vs Rapid7 InsightVM

See all alternatives

Related questions

105

How would you choose between Rapid7 InsightVM and Tenable Nessus?

2

When evaluating Cloud Security Remediation, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

6

Why is Risk-Based Vulnerability Management important for companies?