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Red Canary vs ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.5
Red Canary improved security ROI by efficiently detecting threats, reducing incident response times, and offering detailed alerts and cost savings.
Sentiment score
8.3
Users achieved immediate ROI with ThreatLocker, enhancing security, efficiency, revenue, and operational capabilities while reducing work hours and costs.
One customer who previously did not have anything like this mentioned having peace of mind, which is invaluable for a business owner.
It saves us from extensive remediation when a compromise occurs and aids in proactive measures before threats arise.
We now have enough to support technicians and bring someone else on board, which we could not do before because we were very inexpensive.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.6
Customers commend Red Canary's responsive, knowledgeable support, quick responses, proactive communication, and personalized, expert assistance ensuring satisfaction.
Sentiment score
9.0
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is acclaimed for exceptional customer service, prompt support, and access to its senior team.
In emergencies, there is an on-call person available to resolve issues immediately.
The senior team at ThreatLocker is also very accessible in case we need any help.
ThreatLocker's support and Cyber Heroes have the absolute best support in the industry, in my opinion, bar none.
The ThreatLocker team has been fantastic, assisting us at every step.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Red Canary excels in scalability, seamlessly managing large data sets, integrating with systems, and maintaining performance in growing operations.
Sentiment score
8.9
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is highly scalable and adaptable, managing numerous endpoints efficiently across businesses of all sizes.
I can onboard a new customer in no time, freeing up time for my team to onboard as many as needed without it taking too much time.
Scalability is great; I would rate it a ten out of ten.
It scales with you.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Red Canary is reliably stable, offers accurate threat detection, handles large data efficiently, and remains scalable with frequent updates.
Sentiment score
8.8
Users praise ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR for exceptional stability and swift support, ensuring a reliable and seamless experience.
What's been wonderful about ThreatLocker is when we have found an issue and identified it, the entire team has taken those things seriously and gotten them remediated for us and our clients quickly, and more quickly than I've experienced with other vendors.
I would rate it around nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Red Canary could enhance by adding on-premise solutions, language support, better pricing, more integrations, and attack summary features.
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR requires better integration, affordability, training, transparent pricing, patch management, and guidance for optimal user experience.
Red Canary's pricing spectrum may not be ideal for smaller financial institutions.
It is preferred that everything is seen under one tool rather than multiple platforms requiring multiple logins.
The Cyber Hero Support is not as effective as it is portrayed.
From an MDR perspective, the solution can have the ability to ingest logs from other sources, such as M365, firewalls, external sources, and even cloud SaaS-based platforms.
 

Setup Cost

Red Canary pricing is around $100 per year per device with varying costs, offering valuable security; open-source version available.
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR offers flexible pricing deemed reasonable by many, but potentially high for smaller companies.
The services are higher priced.
Pricing is a bit high, with a minimum of 50 devices.
We would have been one of the biggest partners in Ireland, so we got pretty good pricing at the start, and it is still competitive.
We have an essential users package where we charge per head, and then we have an advanced security offering that we charge per head, and we've baked ThreatLocker into that advanced offering for our clients.
 

Valuable Features

Red Canary integrates seamlessly with EDR software, offering real-time alerts, automation, and excellent support, enhancing user protection and response efficiency.
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR enhances security with features like zero-trust, fast threat detection, device isolation, and streamlined operations.
Red Canary detects threats and attack patterns, allowing us to assess any significant damage caused to the banking environment, particularly if protected data has been damaged or corrupted.
We've seen an 80% to 90% improvement in remediation.
There is a tremendous amount that is helpful, such as their recording, watching the systems, locking down the systems, and their training.
When the update rolled out for version 18, it was able to catch a 3CX Supply Chain attack where a client had downloaded a DLL file that was trying to steal the authenticated Office 365 or authenticated G Suite tokens.
 

Categories and Ranking

Red Canary
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (24th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (40th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (14th)
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
12th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Red Canary is 4.2%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Sagar Shekhar - PeerSpot reviewer
An open-source tool that offers great automation capabilities
Red Canary MDR generates a lot of output, so it would be good if, in the end, it generates a summary of all the previous attacks and what was the outcome of a single attack, especially so that it becomes easy for the user to see the summary and analyze the whole thing. In general, the solution currently fails to provide a summary to its users.
AP
Enables granular control through Ringfencing and works seamlessly for us as an MSP
The most valuable feature is ringfencing. It enables us to only allow what needs to be allowed into the environment and keep out anything else. It permits applications to perform without accessing anything they are not supposed to. For instance, if an application tries to utilize the command prompt unnecessarily, it blocks this action while still allowing users to operate the application. Being able to let the user or the customer continue to use that application but block the application from using the command prompt because it is not necessary is great. Being able to inform customers about enhanced security from a zero-trust standpoint has significantly improved our sales. We are able to walk up to a customer or call a new prospect and let them know that we are going to keep them secure at a level that they have not seen before. We are able to explain to them how cybersecurity works through it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Red Canary MDR?
The most valuable feature of the solution is its automation part.
What needs improvement with Red Canary MDR?
Red Canary MDR generates a lot of output, so it would be good if, in the end, it generates a summary of all the previous attacks and what was the outcome of a single attack, especially so that it b...
What needs improvement with ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR?
As far as an improvement regarding ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR, there are still some things that, out of the box, it would be nice to have a more fine-grained ability to create certain exclusions. ...
What is your primary use case for ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR?
I'm one of the managers and cofounders at my company, and one of my focuses for our clients is in security and implementing security in such a way that we have the control necessary to be able to t...
 

Also Known As

Red Canary Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

DuPont, Quanta Services, Microchip Technology, Hopkins Public Schools, Henny Penny, Schumacher Homes
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