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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
8.0
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR boosts ROI by enhancing security, reducing threats, and increasing client revenue with proactive measures.
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
Red Canary offers exceptional, proactive customer support with regular check-ins and emergency on-call services, enhancing user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
9.1
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR's customer service is praised for its quick, responsive, and knowledgeable support team, fostering high satisfaction.
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
9.0
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is highly scalable, quick to implement, and effortlessly handles extensive user and device growth.
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
Users praise Red Canary for its stability and smooth, reliable performance, even within a short two-month usage period.
Sentiment score
8.8
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is highly reliable, with users praising its stability and prompt threat resolution despite occasional training issues.
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 users seek on-premise versions, language support, firewall improvements, summary features, and pricing adjustments for smaller institutions.
Desirable features include integration, affordability, EDR improvements, better training, communication, patch management, third-party API support, and granular control.
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

Enterprise users find Red Canary's pricing fair at $100 per device annually, though some prefer lower costs.
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is seen as competitively priced, offering good value, especially for larger companies, with flexible options.
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 with EDR software for real-time threat detection, automation, and compliance support in banking and security.
ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR enhances security with application ringfencing, quick incident responses, and 24/7 monitoring, boosting trust and productivity.
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
8.7
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Red Canary is 4.1%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThreatLocker Cyber Hero MDR is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. 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
15%
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's pricing spectrum may not be ideal for smaller financial institutions.
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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