Why SIEM is Moving Toward Unified Security Operations: Rapid7 Named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape

Rapid7 published a multi-topic briefing: (1) company recognition—Rapid7 named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape for SIEM 2026 and promoting its Incident Command unified security operations platform; (2) Metasploit weekly update adding five modules including an unauthenticated Paperclip AI full RCE chain (CVE-2026-41679) and a local NTLM relay-to-self privilege escalation module enabling SYSTEM via S4U2Proxy; (3) threat research on a sophisticated Dropping Elephant campaign using China-themed decoys, DLL side‑loading (Fondue.exe), Donut shellcode, and an in-memory RAT that evades disk-based def