Case Study: Junior Achievement U.S.A. achieves 24/7 SOC monitoring and streamlined security operations with Rapid7

Junior Achievement and Rapid7 are an Unparalleled Combination

Junior Achievement USA, a nonprofit that delivers financial literacy and career-readiness programs to millions of students, shifted toward digital education and moved workloads to the cloud — a change that exposed gaps in their security monitoring. Collecting event logs and tracking infrastructure during the data center-to-cloud migration was consuming hours of staff time, so the small IT team needed a proven, cost-conscious cybersecurity platform to improve visibility and efficiency.

After a rigorous vendor evaluation, Junior Achievement deployed Rapid7’s InsightAppSec, InsightVM, Managed Detection & Response, and Pentesting Services, using a single agent and unified console with AI-driven log analysis and 24/7 SOC coverage. Onboarding was smooth, alerts are now actionable (a few behavioral alerts per week) and Rapid7 helped the team remediate a firewall vulnerability before it was exploited, meet COPPA and insurer monitoring requirements, and do so more affordably than building in-house coverage — “no one’s breaking in,” said Tom Landsness.

Junior Achievement U.S.A.

Tom Landsness

Vice President of Infrastructure & Service Management