Gartner® Market Guide

2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services

The latest Gartner® Market Guide explores how MDR services are evolving to meet today’s risk landscape and what security teams should demand from their providers.

In this report, you’ll learn:

Why MDR must be human-led, even as AI and automation scale
How identity, SaaS, and cloud platforms are reshaping detection
Where proactive exposure mitigation is becoming table stakes
What separates outcome-driven MDR from tech-wrapped alerting

We believe Rapid7 is aligned to this vision providing 24/7 analyst-led response, Agentic AI, and exposure-aware detection that drives action.

The latest Gartner® Market Guide explores how MDR services are evolving to meet today’s risk landscape and what security teams should demand from their providers.

In this report, you’ll learn:

Why MDR must be human-led, even as AI and automation scale
How identity, SaaS, and cloud platforms are reshaping detection
Where proactive exposure mitigation is becoming table stakes
What separates outcome-driven MDR from tech-wrapped alerting

We believe Rapid7 is aligned to this vision providing 24/7 analyst-led response, Agentic AI, and exposure-aware detection that drives action.

About this publication

Gartner, Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services, Pete Shoard, Andrew Davies, Angel Berrios, 1 October 2025.

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