Rapid7 Acquires Kenzo Security for Command Platform Expansion

Rapid7, Inc. acquired Kenzo Security to expand Rapid7’s Command Platform for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) operations. The company said the move was intended to improve how alerts were investigated and handled at machine speed.

Rapid7 said most Security Operations (SecOps) investigate only a fraction of the alerts generated, citing limits that keep teams reactive. It said nearly half of alerts go unexamined and that manual investigation across fragmented telemetry added strain on security teams. Rapid7 also said Artificial Intelligence (AI) productivity promises had not yet been realized.

Kenzo Security integrates, normalizes, and unifies security data in an entity-centric data mesh to support multi-agent analysis. The platform enables autonomous alert investigations with intelligent rule tuning and dynamic playbooks, using multiple AI agents that specialize in different SecOps tasks. Rapid7 said a reported average customer result included a 94% reduction in investigation time and alert coverage increasing from 12% to 100%.

Rapid7 said it planned to integrate Kenzo’s data mesh with Rapid7’s Command Platform and embed Kenzo Security’s proprietary AI models across MDR operations. The release said the combined approach included AI-led workflows for automated investigation and correlation, scalable dynamic investigations that ingest and triage new threats, and decision transparency intended to support auditable outputs as workloads shift to AI agents. “Reactive security models have reached their limits,” Corey Thomas, CEO of Rapid7, said. “Attackers are using AI to move faster, attack surface complexity is accelerating, and security teams are expected to improve outcomes without additional resources. Kenzo Security advances our mission to enable security operations that preempt attackers with predictive precision and machine-scale.” “We built Kenzo Security as a revolutionary AI platform designed to help organizations manage security in ways that were not possible before,” Partha Naidu, chief product officer and co-founder of Kenzo Security, said. “In customer deployments, we’ve seen investigation time shrink from hours to minutes, and instead of sampling or prioritizing a subset, the platform scales to investigate every alert end-to-end.” Rapid7 said it did not anticipate a material impact to revenue, ARR, profitability, or free cash flows tied to the transaction.