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Rapid7 vs Splunk

Rapid7 sells the Command Platform, which runs cloud security, SIEM, application security, vulnerability management, automation and attack surface management solutions, along with managed services offerings built on these solutions. Splunk sells a data platform for security, observability, and AI, and says the platform unifies petabyte-scale machine data wherever it lives. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Rapid7 vs Splunk: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Rapid7Rapid7 sells the Command Platform, which runs cloud security, SIEM, application security, vulnerability management, automation and attack surface management solutions, along with managed services offerings built on these solutions.rapid7.comSplunkSplunk sells a data platform for security, observability, and AI, and says the platform unifies petabyte-scale machine data wherever it lives.splunk.com
What it sells
  • Vulnerability Management[3][4][6]Helps customers understand risk across hybrid environments and prioritize remediation.
  • Threat Command[7]Monitors the clear, deep, and dark web to identify risks before they become attacks.
  • Metasploit[9][10][11]Validates vulnerabilities and enables phishing and broader social engineering.
  • Splunk Cloud Platform[12][22][23][24]A platform to collect, index, and visualize data in the cloud.
  • Splunk Enterprise[1][12][14][17][18][22][24]A platform to collect, index, and visualize data using an on-premises engine.
  • Splunk Enterprise Security[1][14][17][18]A Splunk solution for security operations.
  • Federated Search[15][19]A search layer across the data estate.
  • Splunk AI Assistant[19]A natural-language entry point to the search workflow.
  • Splunk Edge Processor[21]A processor that applies cryptographic functions to data as it flows on-premises.
  • Splunk AI Toolkit[20]Guided workflows to build and deploy models.
  • Splunk Log Observer Connect[22]An integration that links logs to Splunk Observability Cloud.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Jose, United States[4]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2003[3]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesOwned by Cisco[2][15][16][25]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • September 15, 2026Cisco released Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI features to on-premises customers on Cisco infrastructure with NVIDIA computing.[10]
  • May 28, 2026Splunk reported that Cisco has completed its acquisition of Galileo, with plans to integrate Galileo technology into Splunk Observability.[25]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco agreed to buy AI observability startup Galileo Technologies to add its agent monitoring tools to the Splunk observability platform.[11]
  • February 18, 2026Splunk announced that its hosted AI models are generally available for Splunk Cloud Platform customers.[23]
  • January 16, 2026Splunk announced the release of Splunk Enterprise 10.2 and Splunk Cloud Platform 10.2.[24]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[16]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Rapid7 offers vulnerability management for hybrid environments and cloud security for multi-cloud environments. Rapid7 provides clear, deep and dark web monitoring for threats to an organization, its employees and its customers. Rapid7 states that it has customers around the world.From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform. Splunk describes SOC teams that index authentication and firewall data for real-time detections. Splunk describes a healthcare organization that monitors logs from medical devices. Splunk offers material for CISOs and boards on priorities, budgeting, compliance, and success metrics. Splunk describes deployments on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform.
Last verified
November 6, 2026October 10, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Rapid7 and Splunk are both filed under SIEM.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Rapid7's primary category is Vulnerability management; Splunk's is SIEM.
  • Rapid7 is also filed under External attack surface management and MDR and managed SOC. Splunk is also filed under SOAR and security automation and Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Rapid7 lists Vulnerability Management, Threat Command and Metasploit. Splunk lists Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
  • Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Splunk was founded in 2003.
  • Splunk is owned by Cisco.
  • Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.

What it sells: Rapid7

What Vulnerability Management does[3][4][6]
Vulnerability management uses agent-based and network scanning across hybrid environments. Remediation is prioritized according to targets that attract attackers the most.
What Threat Command does[7]
Threat Command takes on takedown management for organizations. A dynamic asset mapping framework tracks a customer's evolving digital footprint.

What it sells: Splunk

What Splunk Cloud Platform does[12][22][23][24]
Splunk Cloud Platform is described as a way to collect, index, and visualize data in the cloud. Splunk says data can be brought in with agents, Splunk-supported integrations, and developer add-ons.
What Splunk Enterprise Security does[1][14][17][18]
Splunk names Splunk Enterprise Security among its solutions that use pre-written macros. Splunk describes AI Assistant in Security as available to cloud customers of Splunk Enterprise Security.
What Federated Search does[15][19]
Federated Search is described as the unifying search layer across the data estate. It covers Splunk-managed locations and supported customer-managed stores such as Amazon S3 and Snowflake.
What Splunk AI Assistant does[19]
Splunk AI Assistant provides a natural-language entry point to the search workflow. With Agent Mode enabled, an analyst can describe the investigation to perform instead of constructing each search.

Questions about Rapid7 and Splunk

What do Rapid7 and Splunk sell?
Rapid7 sells Vulnerability Management, Threat Command and Metasploit. Splunk sells Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Federated Search, Splunk AI Assistant and 3 more.
Are Rapid7 and Splunk in the same category?
They share SIEM. Rapid7's primary category is Vulnerability management and Splunk's is SIEM.
Where are Rapid7 and Splunk headquartered?
Splunk is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Rapid7 and Splunk founded?
Splunk was founded in 2003.
Who owns Rapid7 and Splunk?
Splunk is owned by Cisco.
Which customers do Rapid7 and Splunk name?
Splunk publicly names Carrefour, Intel, FINRA, Alaska Airlines and Honda of Alabama.
Who are Rapid7 and Splunk sold to?
Rapid7 offers vulnerability management for hybrid environments and cloud security for multi-cloud environments. From its own pages, Splunk sells mainly to organisations that want security, observability, and AI data on one platform.
What have Rapid7 and Splunk announced recently?
September 15, 2026: Cisco released Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI features to on-premises customers on Cisco infrastructure with NVIDIA computing.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 sells the Command Platform, which runs cloud security, SIEM, application security, vulnerability management, automation and attack surface management solutions, along with managed services offerings built on these solutions. Rapid7 provides Managed Vulnerability Management, Managed Threat Complete and Managed Detection & Response. Rapid7 offers 24x7 XDR monitoring, remediation and DFIR from experts who extend a customer's team. Rapid7 Insight products can be used individually or together for a tailored security solution.[1][3][4][5]

Rapid7 exposure management provides continuous assessment of an attack surface to validate vulnerabilities and policy gaps. Rapid7 attack surface management gives a unified view of assets across a digital estate, with native and third-party enrichment. Rapid7 attack surface management discovers unknown internet-facing and internal assets and uncovers shadow IT and coverage gaps. Rapid7 uses that asset context in Exposure Command to prioritize what attackers can reach. Rapid7 attack surface management includes external scans that detect and validate exposures while highlighting high-risk areas. Rapid7 continuous monitoring and discovery cover internal and external asset inventories. Rapid7 offers multi-cloud and container security for AWS, Azure, GCP and K8s. Rapid7 offers application and API security testing covering DAST, API and LLM.[4][6]

Rapid7 vulnerability management uses agent-based and network scanning across hybrid environments. Rapid7 cloud security addresses multi-cloud environments and provides cloud risk monitoring and detection. Rapid7 threat intelligence includes mapping capabilities for discovering and remediating external threats. Rapid7 Intelligence curates emergent threat response, proprietary intelligence, research and adversary insights that are deployed across Rapid7 solutions and services.[4][6]

Threat Command monitors the clear, deep, and dark web to identify risks before they become attacks. Rapid7 provides proactive clear, deep and dark web monitoring for threats to an organization, its employees and its customers. Rapid7 offers a dynamic asset mapping framework that tracks a customer's evolving digital footprint and identifies new potential attack vectors. Threat Command takes on takedown management for organizations. A dedicated Rapid7 team gathers prerequisites, accelerates requests and streamlines workflows with a customer's legal team.[7]

Rapid7 offers technology and service add-ons that extend MDR capabilities. Rapid7 offers expert threat detection coverage to identify early threat signals across the clear, deep and dark web. Rapid7 MDR pricing is based on the number of endpoints, servers and networks protected, and not on data volume ingested into its SIEM or the number of incidents requiring response.[8]

Rapid7 penetration testing services simulate real-world attacks to assess, evaluate and identify security weaknesses in an organization's people, processes and technology. Rapid7 testers inspect networks, applications, devices and/or people to demonstrate the security level of key systems and infrastructure. Rapid7 penetration testing engagements identify flaws that may violate compliance provisions or regulations. Rapid7 penetration testers contribute directly to the Metasploit Project. Rapid7 consultants spend up to 20% of bench time focused on attacker research and skill development. Rapid7 offers continuous red team operations to validate external attack surface exposures and test defenses. Metasploit validates vulnerabilities and enables phishing and broader social engineering. Rapid7 typically publishes advisories on newly discovered vulnerabilities approximately 60 days after its initial attempts at private disclosure.[9][10][11]

Rapid7 is a publicly traded company and undergoes SOX audits annually. Rapid7 undergoes a SOC 2 Type II audit annually to ensure the effectiveness of controls relevant to security. Rapid7's ISMS is ISO 27001 certified and was audited by Schellman. Rapid7's AIMS is ISO/IEC 42001 certified in the role of an AI provider. Rapid7 has completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment to PROTECTED Level for several Insight Platform solutions. Rapid7 undergoes an annual, independent technical assessment by an accredited assessor to hold Cyber Essentials Plus certification. Rapid7 hosts its Insight cloud infrastructure in AWS. Rapid7 participates in and has certified compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.[4][8][11]

Rapid7 on the record

Sources

Rapid7 full record

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  2. [2]Business supportRapid7 · careers.rapid7.com · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]PHP CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: Rapid7 StatementRapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Rapid7 Managed Cybersecurity: Outpace AttackersRapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Rapid7 Product PricingRapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Surface Command | Attack Surface Management | Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Threat Command: Digital Risk Protection - Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Rapid7 MDR Pricing | Managed Threat CompleteRapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Penetration Testing Services | Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  11. [11]Metasploit Editions: Network Pen Testing Tool - Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) Policy - Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Compliance - Rapid7Rapid7 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Rapid7 Security Services Reviews & Provider DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Splunk full record

  1. [1]ProductsSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cisco completes acquisition of splunkCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published March 18, 2024 · Tier A
  3. [3]Get the most out of splunk infrastructure monitoring and splunk itsiSplunk · splunk.com · published November 17, 2020 · Tier A
  4. [4]Contact usSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]CarrefourSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]IntelSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]FinraSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Alaska airlinesSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]HondaSplunk · splunk.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cisco delivers trusted ai at scale through new splunk advancementsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Cisco buys galileo strengthen splunks agentic monitoring capabilitiesSiliconANGLE · siliconangle.com · published April 9, 2026 · Tier B
  12. [12]Get Data In | Platform (last updated lastModifiedISO)Splunk · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Analytics Story: Warzone RAT | Splunk Security ContentSplunk · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Analytics Story: Trickbot | Splunk Security ContentSplunk · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Splunk | Data Platform for Security, Observability & AISplunk · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Splunk Enterprise Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  17. [17]Using advanced macros - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]L’IA au service de la sécurité | SplunkSplunk · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Investigating and searching across your data estate with Cisco Data Fabric powered by the Splunk platform - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]Preparing data for use with the Splunk AI Toolkit - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  21. [21]De-identifying PII consistently with hashing in Edge Processor - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  22. [22]Using Log Observer Connect with Cloud Platform - Splunk LanternSplunk Lantern · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  23. [23]Splunk Launches Hosted Generative AI Models: Native-AI Insights, Zero Setup, Maximum SecuritySplunk · published February 18, 2026 · Tier A
  24. [24]Announcing Splunk Enterprise 10.2 & Splunk Cloud Platform 10.2 – Next Generation Querying & AnalyticsSplunk · published January 16, 2026 · Tier A
  25. [25]Splunk Observability + Galileo: Bridging the AI Trust GapSplunk · published May 28, 2026 · Tier A

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