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Field Effect MDR vs Red Canary comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

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
6.9
Field Effect MDR enhances security, boosts growth, ensures compliance, delivers high returns, and prevents costly cyber incidents effectively.
Sentiment score
8.5
Red Canary improved security ROI by efficiently detecting threats, reducing incident response times, and offering detailed alerts and cost savings.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
Field Effect MDR's customer service excels in responsiveness and expertise, earning high client satisfaction and frequent ten out of ten ratings.
Sentiment score
8.5
Red Canary's customer service is excellent, offering swift support with on-call availability and monthly alert discussions.
Field Effect MDR provides real human support, which offers precise instruction and guidance.
customer support does screen sharing sessions
In emergencies, there is an on-call person available to resolve issues immediately.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Field Effect MDR offers scalable, seamless growth management for varying organizational sizes, requiring minimal maintenance with automatic updates.
Sentiment score
6.4
Red Canary excels in scalability, seamlessly managing large data sets, integrating with systems, and maintaining performance in growing operations.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Field Effect MDR is highly stable, with minimal disruptions and positive ratings, despite one user's installation issue.
Sentiment score
8.2
Red Canary is praised for robust reliability and consistent performance, with users reporting smooth, glitch-free operation.
I have one situation where it has been two months trying to resolve an installation issue on a server, which has consumed a significant amount of time.
 

Room For Improvement

Field Effect MDR needs cost reduction, better usability, email security, streamlined alerts, and cloud integration enhancements for efficiency.
Red Canary can improve by offering on-premise options, expanding language support, enhancing firewall integration, and addressing pricing concerns.
Pricing needed improvement, which was addressed by reducing the buying cost recently.
I have to access a separate website to complete it.
Red Canary's pricing spectrum may not be ideal for smaller financial institutions.
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Field Effect MDR cost-effective, appreciating its user-based pricing and flexibility compared to competitors.
Red Canary's pricing, at $100 per device, is seen as fair but users desire lower costs, ideally $50.
Pricing was initially a concern, but the recent updates have resolved that by offering a more accessible buying cost.
The services are higher priced.
 

Valuable Features

Field Effect MDR offers comprehensive monitoring, threat detection, and easy management, providing valuable security for resource-limited organizations.
Red Canary offers seamless EDR integration, fast alerts, automation, threat detection, and supports compliance with key standards.
Field Effect MDR finds software and Windows updates that aren't being completed, which I find very valuable.
Field Effect MDR provides workstation coverage, user account protection with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and on-premise device management for network security.
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.
 

Categories and Ranking

Field Effect MDR
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
3rd
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Canary
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (25th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (36th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Field Effect MDR is 3.2%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Canary is 3.5%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Field Effect MDR3.2%
Red Canary3.5%
Other93.3%
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Anmol Nagpal - PeerSpot reviewer
Effective MDR with great support and an easy setup
The feature I've found the move valuable is the 24/7 monitoring. We are a small organization that supports a LOT of endpoints and clients. Without this tool, it would be impossible for us to confidently tell clients that we are secure. Alongside this, the ability for Field Effect to make decisions on its own based on what it has learned from all the "training data" that we have provided in the past. It will only get better over time. We have had some false positives; for example, using a legitimate networking scanning tool from the terminal has been blocked. However, we were actually impressed when something so simple was caught!
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
49%
Retailer
5%
Outsourcing Company
4%
Government
4%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Field Effect Covalence?
It is very user-friendly. We have regular reports to see what is going on.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Field Effect Covalence?
Pricing was initially a concern, but the recent updates have resolved that by offering a more accessible buying cost.
What needs improvement with Field Effect Covalence?
One way Field Effect MDR can be improved is through its licensing process, which is not ideal. The licensing process is difficult because I have to access a separate website to complete it.
What needs improvement with Red Canary MDR?
Red Canary's pricing spectrum may not be ideal for smaller financial institutions.
What is your primary use case for Red Canary MDR?
We use Red Canary ( /products/red-canary-reviews ) to monitor incoming and outgoing traffic. For example, when we receive an alert that data from our internal IP address to an external IP address h...
 

Also Known As

Field Effect Covalence
Red Canary Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
 

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Sample Customers

Information Not Available
DuPont, Quanta Services, Microchip Technology, Hopkins Public Schools, Henny Penny, Schumacher Homes
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