Keith McCammon, Chris Rothe, and Brian Beyer met in 2012 while supporting the intelligence community with offensive cybersecurity, research, and big data processing applications. Alongside that work, they began helping breached organizations respond and recover.
These were good security teams who did “all the right things,” bought the right products, had the right services, and still were breached. If you’ve never been through a breach, it’s brutal—someone has come into your organization, rifled through the drawers, taken things, and now you have to tell your leadership, your board, and your customers that you failed to protect them.
Our founders knew the system was broken, so they developed a different kind of security platform and service to truly protect organizations from cybersecurity attacks. It focused on the threats that were actually resulting in breaches. And with their data processing expertise, it hunted through the tremendous multitude of data that security teams and vendors weren’t capable of processing.
Since then we have been a security ally to customers of all shapes and sizes—from the most sophisticated technology and finance companies, to healthcare and small businesses. And we haven’t looked back since.
History in the making
- Keith, Chris, and Brian meet at Kyrus
- Red Canary platform launches and we begin hunting for threats with our first customers
- Kyrus spins Red Canary out with $2.5m in seed funding
- Red Canary convinces Carbon Black to provide streaming access to endpoint telemetry, an industry-first
- Surveyor open source project released to help EDR users hunt for threatening applications
- $11.2m Series A
- Crowdstrike debuts streaming access to their endpoint telemetry for Red Canary
- Atomic Red Team open source project released to help every organization test their defenses
- Red Canary begins serving incident response firms
- Red Canary adds orchestration and automation to lower organizations’ time to respond
- Red Canary launches our first Threat Detection Report to educate the community
- $22.5m Series B
- 100 Canaries
- Red Canary and Microsoft begin offering complete streaming access to Defender security telemetry
- Chain Reactor open source project released to help organizations test their detection and response coverage on Linux
- Launch of the 2020 Threat Detection Report and microsite
- Red Canary launches our Linux agent that prioritizes safety and stability
- Broad integrations released to help organizations make sense of their entire security stack
- 250 Canaries
- $50m Series C
- Launch of the 2021 Threat Detection Report, microsite, and open sourced analysis
- Red Canary partners with Jamf to help organizations secure their Apple devices
- 400 Canaries