Rapid7 was honored at the Belfast Telegraph's annual IT Awards, Friday, taking home a pair of awards including the coveted “Best Place to Work in IT” in the large company category award, and the “Cyber Security Project of the Year” award, for groundbreaking machine learning research in application security. That research was conducted in collaboration with The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen's University Belfast.
The team also took home a Highly Commended recognition for Best Use of Cloud services at the event.
The ability to work on meaningful projects that positively impact customers, being supported by a range of professional development opportunities, a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, and the invitation to explore new ways of thinking all came together in the submission to help earn them the “Best Place to Work” title.
Belfast has been regarded as one of the UK's fastest growing technology hubs. There are now more than 300,000 people working in the technology sector of Northern Ireland, according to the Telegraph. For Rapid7, an impressive business environment and the work being done in IT Security at the local universities were significant factors in the decision to join the Belfast community in 2014. This move was in line with Rapid7's goal of creating exceptional career experiences for their people and expanding operations to address a growing global customer base. In 2021, Rapid7 relocated to their newest office space and announced the addition of more than 200 new roles to the region.
Rapid7's win for Cybersecurity Project of the Year focused on the cutting-edge area of machine learning in application security. Their research sought to reduce the high level of false positives generated by vulnerabilit ..
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