This blog was written in collaboration with Rapid7’s Michael Chroney.
Symmetry Systems and Rapid7 are partnering to bring enterprise-grade data security posture management to organizations of every size. By integrating Symmetry DataGuard’s sensitive data and AI intelligence directly into Rapid7 Exposure Command, the partnership connects two critical but historically disconnected views — where sensitive data lives and who can reach it, and whether real-world attack paths actually lead there. The result is a unified approach to exposure risk that helps organizations reduce blast radius, prioritize remediation by business consequence, and protect what matters most before a breach disrupts the business.
Protecting the world’s data means reaching every organization that needs it.
At Symmetry Systems, our mission is straightforward: protect the world’s data. That means giving every organization — not just the largest enterprises — the visibility and intelligence they need to understand what sensitive data they have, who can reach it, and what happens if they do.
Our partnership with Rapid7 is a meaningful step toward that mission. By bringing Symmetry DataGuard’s sensitive data and AI intelligence into Rapid7 Exposure Command, we are making enterprise-grade data security posture management accessible to a much broader range of organizations.
Sensitive data defines breach impact.
The average data breach now costs $4.44 million, according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. In regulated industries, that figure climbs significantly higher. Behind most of those costs is a common thread: an attacker who gained access to data they should never have been able to reach.
The damage any attacker can do is determined almost entirely by what data that identity can reach. Reducing blast radius — before an attacker ever gets the chance to expand it — is the most direct way to reduce breach impact. That is the outcome this partnership is designed to deliver.
The rapid adoption of AI agents and copilots across cloud and collaboration platforms has introduced a new class of identity risk that affects organizations of every size. These systems operate with delegated permissions, often aggregating and surfacing data across repositories in ways that are difficult to track and easy to misconfigure. When an identity with access to AI is compromised or the AI misconfigured, the blast radius is not limited to one user’s data — it can extend to everything that identity was permitted to touch.
Symmetry DataGuard extends sensitive data and identity visibility to AI and machine identities, giving organizations the same clarity into what AI systems can access as they have into human accounts. As AI adoption accelerates across organizations of all sizes, that visibility is no longer a nice-to-have.
Two platforms. One unified view of what’s actually at risk.
Symmetry DataGuard delivers the sensitive data and AI intelligence layer that makes exposure risk more meaningful. It provides:
Continuous sensitive data discovery and classification across cloud and SaaS environments
Identity and permission mapping to understand who can access sensitive data
Over-privileged, dormant, and risky access detection to reduce blast radius
Anomalous activity monitoring to surface data misuse and policy violations
Actionable data vulnerability insights to drive targeted remediation
Rapid7 Exposure Command brings attacker context into focus by correlating:
Internet-facing exposure
Identity-driven access paths
Vulnerabilities and exploitability signals
Reachability across cloud and on-prem environments
Together, Symmetry’s sensitive data insights surface directly within Rapid7 workflows. Teams can see not only where sensitive data lives and who can reach it, but whether real-world attack paths actually lead there. The question shifts from “what is vulnerable?” to “what sensitive data could actually get breached — and what do we fix first?”
Enterprise-grade data security, accessible through Rapid7
Through this partnership, organizations working with Rapid7 can now access Symmetry DataGuard’s full DSPM capability directly within Exposure Command — without needing to build a separate enterprise procurement process to get there. Sensitive data and AI insights are surfaced natively within existing Rapid7 workflows, and teams can pivot seamlessly into Symmetry DataGuard for deeper investigation, governance, and remediation when they need it.
For midsize organizations in particular, this represents a meaningful shift. The same depth of sensitive data intelligence that has historically been available only to large enterprises is now within reach — integrated into a platform many of these teams are already using.
The result is measurable regardless of organization size: a smaller blast radius, a stronger regulatory posture, and a remediation strategy focused on what actually matters to the business.
Learn more
To read Rapid7’s perspective on the partnership, visit the Rapid7 blog.
If you are ready to bring sensitive data and AI insight into your exposure strategy — and focus your efforts on what matters most — connect with Symmetry Systems to get started.
