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Rapid7 and HITRUST Partner to Automate Cybersecurity Assurance, Reducing Cost and Complexity Across Regulated Industries
New collaboration integrates Rapid7 platform with HITRUST certification program to help organizations move from periodic audits to continuous compliance
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[{"type":"text","content":"New collaboration integrates Rapid7 platform with HITRUST certification program to help organizations move from periodic audits to continuous compliance\nBOSTON, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ: RPD), a leader in threat detection and exposure management, and HITRUST, the leading provider of cybersecurity and AI assurances used in third-party and internal risk, security and compliance management, announced a strategic partnership to help organizations automate compliance and lower the cost of assurance. This new integration brings together Rapid7’s Surface Command, which provides organizations with a complete view of their attack surface, with HITRUST’s assurance framework. Through this new partnership, Rapid7 customers can automatically collect, map, and validate controls against HITRUST standards, reducing audit scope, saving time and resources, and improving overall cyber resilience. Organizations today face increasing pressure to demonstrate continuous security readiness amid a constantly evolving threat and regulatory landscape. Traditional assurance methods rely on periodic audits and manual evidence collection, which are costly, time-consuming, and quickly outdated. By combining Rapid7’s continuous visibility into security controls with the HITRUST Framework, customers are able to move from periodic audits to continuous, evidence-based validation of their cybersecurity posture, improving their security and governance, and their ability to communicate that to stakeholders. “Rapid7 solutions already deliver unmatched visibility and context, enabling our customers to proactively prevent and detect security incidents,” said Jon Schipp, senior director of product management at Rapid7. “With this collaboration, we are now able to benchmark customers against HITRUST, ultimately reducing both the cost and burden of compliance while also enabling them to achieve continuous assurance against the comprehensive framework for greater protection from threats.” “The 2025 HITRUST Trust Report demonstrated that organizations who implement our controls achieve a mere 0.59% averaged annual breach rate - a significant new benchmark in reliable risk mitigation for the industry,” said Blake Sutherland, executive vice president, market engagement at HITRUST. ”This collaboration with Rapid7 maps our controls to their...