No, Red Canary is not solely endpoint-focused.

We provide managed detection and response across all layers of your environment, including endpoints, identities, cloud, and beyond.

No, Red Canary doesn’t replace your existing SOC.

Red Canary provides managed detection and response (MDR) services, which complement and enhance your existing SOC. Think of us as your trusted partner, offering the expertise, tools, and support needed to strengthen your overall security posture without replacing your SOC.

A managed security service provider (MSSP) provides outsourced cybersecurity monitoring, typically focusing on basic security tasks like perimeter traffic monitoring and vulnerability management. They often rely on signatures and rule-based detection, which can miss advanced threats. When incidents occur, customers are often left to manage containment themselves or pay extra for response services.

Red Canary is different. As an MDR provider, we act as a true extension of your security team, providing the expertise and technology to proactively hunt for and respond to advanced threats. We delve deeper into your security data, using a combination of cutting-edge technology and expert analysis to identify and neutralize threats before they can cause significant damage. This proactive approach, coupled with a focus on rapid response and collaboration, empowers your team to focus on strategic initiatives while ensuring comprehensive threat detection and response.

Explore a detailed comparison of MSSPs and MDR services in our MSSP vs. MDR Guide.

While many EDR and XDR vendors now offer MDR as an add-on, their approach often focuses on leveraging their own technology, which can create a siloed security view and lead to vendor lock-in. These vendor-native MDR solutions can also limit the ability to detect threats across the full attack surface, hindering proactive threat hunting, incident response, and remediation. This product-centric approach may leave your team with an incomplete security picture, unable to trace threats across multiple systems or effectively reduce overall risk exposure. Moreover, as the competitive landscape evolves, organizations may find themselves locked into outdated solutions with few options for migration or service continuity.

In contrast, Red Canary is vendor-agnostic, integrating with a wide range of security tools to provide enhanced threat detection, reduce alert fatigue, and improve your overall incident response capabilities. Our expert analysis, threat hunting, and hands-on response go beyond automation to ensure real threats are identified and stopped—no matter which tools you use. This flexibility guarantees you always have access to the best security solutions available.

While SIEMs are often central to security and compliance strategies, serving as a repository for data from various tools, they require significant effort to configure, analyze, and respond to threats—and can be cost-prohibitive. As an MDR provider, Red Canary goes beyond aggregation by continuously monitoring and investigating threats in real time, delivering high-fidelity detections, and providing expert-driven response. Instead of drowning in alerts, your team gets actionable intelligence and 24/7 support to stop threats faster.

Red Canary does not require a SIEM to work. Red Canary integrates seamlessly with various security tools, including SIEMs, but operates independently by collecting and analyzing telemetry directly from your endpoints, cloud environments, identity providers, and other integrated systems. For organizations struggling with SIEM complexity and budget constraints, the Red Canary Security Data Lake provides a flexible, cost-efficient solution for long-term security data storage and querying.

Red Canary and Atomic Red Team are not the same thing.

Red Canary is an MDR provider that offers comprehensive threat detection and response services across endpoints, networks, identities, and cloud environments. We leverage threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and expert investigation to detect and respond to potential threats in real-time.

Atomic Red Team, on the other hand, is an open-source project developed by Red Canary that provides a collection of tests to simulate common attack techniques used by adversaries. These tests help organizations assess and improve their security posture, specifically in the area of detection capabilities. While Red Canary developed Atomic Red Team, we are distinct in terms of services: Atomic Red Team is a testing tool, while Red Canary is a security service provider.

Red Canary does not offer canary tokens, pen testing, or red teaming services.

However, we provide Red Canary Readiness Exercises, realistic scenarios and expert-led tabletops designed to help organizations assess their security posture and improve response capabilities, helping ensure they are fully prepared for real-world threats.

Red Canary integrates with a wide range of security tools to provide comprehensive detection and response across your environment. Find our full list of integrations here.