Lookout vs Red Canary comparison

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Lookout and Red Canary, a Zscaler company are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Lookout is ranked #49 with an average rating of 7.0, while Red Canary, a Zscaler company is ranked #38 with an average rating of 9.0. Lookout holds a 0.8% mindshare in EDR, compared to Red Canary, a Zscaler company’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Lookout users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Canary, a Zscaler company users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Lookout and Red Canary both compete in the cybersecurity domain. Red Canary has an edge in features and deployment, while Lookout offers better pricing and customer support.

Features: Lookout offers comprehensive threat intelligence, real-time protection, and ease of use. Red Canary provides advanced threat detection, response capabilities, and robust analytics.

Room for Improvement: Lookout needs better integration capabilities, improved performance speed, and a more intuitive user interface. Red Canary should enhance reporting features, reduce false positives, and streamline its setup process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Lookout has a straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Red Canary requires a more complex deployment but offers excellent technical guidance and training resources.

Pricing and ROI: Lookout has competitive pricing, balancing cost and features well. Red Canary is more expensive but is valued for its superior threat-hunting capabilities and long-term ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.7%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lookout is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Canary is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.7%
Red Canary	0.7%
Lookout	0.8%
Other	94.8%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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David Baynton

IT Manager at NHS Trust

Enhanced mobile security with visibility into app and website usage, but installation challenges remain

We use Lookout for mobile devices, such as phones It has reduced our risk around mobile devices. I like the security features and being able to see what apps and websites people are using. There is nothing we have come across that we've desired. We have been using Lookout for one year. The…

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John Hoffoss

Head of Information Security and Privacy at Ovative Group

Gained trusted 24/7 threat coverage and now focus security efforts on architecture and design

In my experience, the best features Red Canary offers are their team, their monitoring team, their expertise at incident investigation, and a focus on suspicious or actual indicators of compromise to ensure that we're not spending time just reviewing logs, but that we're actually looking at things that may indicate we have broader issues. The Red Canary team's expertise stands out compared to others I've worked with because their team is organized into smaller pods that support a given number of clients, so they're not just a bevy of operators going around the clock. The teams themselves have coordination and cohesion, and they get to know us. Their integrations into the different platforms and systems that we use all line up with our needs, whereas a number of other platforms offered a different variety of integrations that did not line up with our requirements. Red Canary has positively impacted my organization because I don't have to spend and hire resources to look at logs, which has enabled us to do much more in terms of improving security across the organization. With the freed-up resources, we've been able to implement CSPM, SAST, software testing tooling, and engage much more closely with our developers and engineers to focus on secure architecture and design.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Their XDR agent and their behavioral indicators of compromise (BIOC) are pretty nice. Their managed threat hunting is also pretty nice. They also have WildFire, which is a service for actively looking for malware. It's quite useful."

"Technical support is the best in class, in my opinion, because they have invested heavily in research and development."

"If the user leaves our premises or network, Palo Alto Traps will still be on that endpoint and will still apply our policies."

"It'll not slow down your system when compared to others."

"It is a simple platform to use."

"It blocks malicious files, prevents attacks, and doesn't require many updates because it is a very light application."

"Once you become familiar with it, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a more powerful tool and I would say that I prefer it over MDE because it is a stronger tool for me."

"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."

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"We have not had any issues with bugs or breakdowns."

"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."

"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."

"The near real-time review translates into near real-time action. So, in addition to alerting, Red Canary MDR has response playbooks built out."

"I am satisfied with this solution and it is very competitive with other similar EDR or MDR solutions because it provides very impressive information about the root cause of the threat, such as malware."

"The solution works well for what we use it for and the support and protection are good."

"I recommended Red Canary to my friends who work in other organizations."

"Red Canary has positively impacted my organization because I don't have to spend and hire resources to look at logs, which has enabled us to do much more in terms of improving security across the organization."

"The valuable features of this solution are it integrates well with different EDR software, such CrowdStrike, and Carbon Black, and the information it provides is helpful."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its automation part."

"Red Canary has impacted my organization positively because we treat any ticket triggered by them as high priority due to the fact that 99 percent of the time it is a true positive."

Cons

"For Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, if I had to point out improvements, I would say the UI is still somewhat difficult for beginners."

"I think sometimes Cortex XDR agent automatically stops event capturing from the device, and then even the dashboard does not get any notifications from the agent."

"Cortex does not offer an on-premises solution. However, some customers would prefer not to be on the cloud. It would be ideal if it could offer something on-prem as well."

"I recommend adding a data loss prevention (DLP) solution to Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products."

"As an improvement, I would like to see enhanced connection speeds."

"The onboarding process could be better."

"The product's pricing needs improvement. They could provide more discounts. Additionally, the dashboard and control panel could be enhanced."

"Enhancing UI simplicity and playbook flexibility are areas that could benefit from more low-code automation options for smoother integrations."

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"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."

"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."

"The initial setup requires a little bit of experience with configuration."

"Red Canary can be improved by continuing to add new features and capabilities to what they are looking at, including the types of data they're looking at and the types of systems that they're integrating with."

"I would like there to be an on-premise version of this solution for our data centers because of the proliferation of online threats."

"The price could always be better."

"In general, the solution currently fails to provide a summary to its users."

"The most valuable feature of Red Canary MDR is the overall threat protection it provides."

"I wish Red Canary could have a graph that shows the endpoint, user, and how it spreads, providing a visual representation to easily identify what happened."

"Red Canary's pricing spectrum may not be ideal for smaller financial institutions."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."

"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is a little bit on the expensive side."

"The pricing is a little high. It is per user per year."

"The price of the solution is high for the license and in general."

"I feel it is fairly priced."

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."

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"Lookout is definitely on the lower end when it comes to price point and that seems to be the only differentiator. The technology is in place in this space and it's really about who is coming in at the better price point now."

"The pricing is fair; it's comparable to our previous solution, and we carried out multiple POCs and POVs (proof of value). The product is worth the money we pay for it."

"The solution could vary in price depending on how many endpoints a company has."

"I have not compared Red Canary to other solutions to know if the price is high or low. However, I have found the price of this solution fair and reasonable, it cost approximately $100 per year, per device. If they could provide the solution for $50 per year, per device, it would be better."

"Red Canary MDR I use is an open-source tool."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	47
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	55

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Large Enterprise	5

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lookout?

The pricing is a little expensive. We are currently looking at comparisons with other solutions, including Umbrella.

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What needs improvement with Lookout?

There is nothing we have come across that we've desired.

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What is your primary use case for Lookout?

We use Lookout for mobile devices, such as phones.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Canary MDR?

The services are higher priced.

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What needs improvement with Red Canary MDR?

I wish Red Canary could have a graph that shows the endpoint, user, and how it spreads, providing a visual representa...

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What is your primary use case for Red Canary MDR?

My main use case for Red Canary is that a Red Canary analyst monitors our logs, and if they see any abnormality, they...

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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Red Canary Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Lookout offers a mobile EDR solution that uniquely addresses the challenges of iOS and Android security, providing comprehensive threat defense and visibility.

By utilizing AI-driven security and behavioral analysis, Lookout identifies and mitigates mobile threats before they escalate. Lookout's mobile threat defense system is tailored for modern risks, protecting employee devices from social engineering attacks such as phishing and smishing. It bridges the gap between mobile and traditional endpoint security, ensuring secure mobile productivity through the world's largest mobile security data set.

What are the key features of Lookout?

AI-Driven Threat Detection: Uses AI to identify and neutralize threats proactively.
Comprehensive Mobile Security: Protects against mobile malware, and network threats.
Behavioral Analysis: Evaluates device activities to detect anomalies and potential threats.
Advanced Social Engineering Defense: Guards against phishing, smishing, and other social engineering tactics.
Risk Alignment: Integrates mobile risk assessment with traditional endpoint security.

What benefits should users expect?

Enhanced Security: Ensures robust protection against emerging mobile threats.
Improved Visibility: Provides real-time insights for effective risk management.
Increased Productivity: Enables secure access to mobile apps and data.
AI-Powered Protection: Delivers smarter and faster threat detection.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for multiple security solutions.

Lookout is widely implemented across industries like finance, healthcare, and government due to its ability to secure sensitive data on mobile platforms. Financial institutions value its proactive threat detection, healthcare providers rely on its compliance capabilities, and government agencies trust its robust defense against sophisticated attacks. Lookout helps organizations maintain security while enabling mobile productivity.

Lookout

Red Canary Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offers robust threat detection, rapid response capabilities, continuous security monitoring, and seamless integration with existing tools. Valued for its actionable reporting and proactive threat intelligence, it streamlines operations and enhances organizational efficiency and security.

Red Canary, a Zscaler company

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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

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