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Unified and intuitive vs siloed and complex
Rapid7 is a collection of siloed modules that need to be licensed separately and require you to switch between different consoles. Mondoo is a centralized platform that covers your entire IT environment and SDLC. This saves you having to switch consoles and manually correlate data to get a centralized risk view across your entire IT infrastructure - without having to pay for extra modules.
Why choose Mondoo over Rapid7?
You should choose Mondoo if:
- You prefer a unified platform instead of siloed consoles
- You want guided remediation for vulnerabilities as well as misconfigurations
- You want automated ticket tracking, verification, and closure
- You want to customize risk prioritization to reflect your business priorities
- You want more coverage of CIS benchmarks
- You want SaaS security for EntraID, Google Workspaces, and more
Features
Features
Full coverage
Mondoo covers your entire IT environment (cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and endpoints) and SDLC from code to runtime.
You need to license many different modules such as InsightVM, Exposure Command, InsightAppSec, InsightCloudSec, Surface Command, and more, each with separate consoles, agents, and licensing.
Complete inventory
Get a full inventory of your IT assets, including cloud, on-prem, SaaS, endpoints, and applications. Discover shadow IT and insecure systems.
Only if you purchase Exposure Command Advanced.
CIS benchmark support
Mondoo includes out-of-the-box templates for 150+ CIS benchmarks and many compliance frameworks (such as SOC2, PCI DSS, NIS2, HIPAA, and NIST).
Limited coverage of CIS benchmarks (only for cloud providers and Kubernetes).
Guided remediation
Mondoo provides guided remediation for both vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, complete with actionable code snippets.
Rapid7 remediation focuses primarily on vulnerability patching; misconfigurations are largely unsupported or require manual intervention.
Fix Forever remediation
Mondoo supports “Fix Forever” workflows that prevent vulnerabilities from reopening by validating fixes in CI/CD, enforcing policies via Policy as Code, and tracking long-term compliance.
No equivalent. Rapid7 focuses on one-time patching without workflows to prevent recurrence or enforce fixes in pipelines.
Ticketing automation
Yes Mondoo integrates with Jira, Zendesk, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Azure DevOps, and any others via email. Mondoo can create tickets for single or multiple assets, automatically validate fixes, and auto-close or reopen tickets as applicable.
Only supports Jira and ServiceNow, tickets can only be created for remediation projects, not on findings, and no auto-closing of tickets after verification.
Custom risk prioritization
Yes, Mondoo allows 40+ risk factors to be customized and criticality tags to be set for assets.
Does not allow fine-tuning of risk prioritization settings - only allows criticality tagging.
Limited IaC scanning
Yes, Mondoo offers IaC scanning for Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests, and Dockerfiles with CI/CD integrations. Mondoo also covers code runtimes like Python and NodeJS.
Limited support for IaC scanning: only support for Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
Exception management
Yes, policies and vulnerabilities can be snoozed, mitigated, disabled, or marked as false positives on individual assets or environments.
Yes but each different Rapid7 module has its own exception handling, requiring you to configure and ensure alignment in all modules.
Third-party security integrations
Yes, Mondoo can ingest and prioritize findings from Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne and Crowdstrike
Can ingest findings from Crowdstrike Falcon and SentinelOne EDR, but not Microsoft Defender.
Policy as Code
Yes, Mondoo allows teams to translate policies into code and automate and scale across environments.
No
