Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ: RPD), a leader in cloud risk and threat detection, today announced it has acquired Minerva Labs, Ltd., a leading provider of anti-evasion and ransomware prevention technology. Today, Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services provide customers elevated detection and response capabilities across their cloud, on-premise and extended attack surfaces. With this acquisition, Rapid7 will further extend its leading managed threat detection capabilities with the ability to orchestrate advanced ransomware prevention. These new capabilities will seamlessly extend MDR across cloud resources, traditional infrastructure, and existing endpoint protection infrastructure, enabling customers to further consolidate their security investments.