Red Canary vs SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform comparison

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Red Canary, a Zscaler company and Secpod Technologies are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Red Canary, a Zscaler company is ranked #38 with an average rating of 9.0, while Secpod Technologies is ranked #59. Red Canary, a Zscaler company holds a 0.7% mindshare in EDR, compared to Secpod Technologies’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Canary, a Zscaler company users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Secpod Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform and Red Canary compete in providing cyber hygiene solutions. Red Canary seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and integration capabilities as per user reviews.

Features: SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform is praised for its comprehensive vulnerability management, endpoint detection, and automated remediation capabilities. Red Canary stands out due to its advanced threat intelligence, automated detection processes, and integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that SanerNow could improve its reporting capabilities, integration with other security tools, and customization options. Red Canary users mention the need for more customization options, better user training materials, and an improved user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SanerNow is often highlighted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Red Canary provides efficient deployment but with a steeper learning curve. Red Canary's customer service is well-rated but users seem to prefer SanerNow's support responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: SanerNow is noted for its affordable setup costs and good ROI. Red Canary, despite higher setup costs, is considered to offer a strong ROI due to its advanced features and overall efficacy. While SanerNow offers a more budget-friendly option, Red Canary's pricing is justified by its feature richness and effectiveness according to user reviews.

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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 Red Canary is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform is 0.8%, up from 0.1% 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%
SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform	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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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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JAN MICHAEL UY

Information Technology Supervisor at DMCI Homes, Inc.

Can automate updates and manage software licenses more effectively

Our team uses the SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform for threat detection, focusing on features like vulnerabilities and asset exposure. The asset exposure feature is packaged with software licenses and machines. We get the latest updates and patches for Windows workstations and applications for remediation. We can automate these updates, which greatly improves our previous manual and scripting-based tools. Before, we struggled with setting policies and making changes to workstations. Now, we can automate updates and manage software licenses more effectively. We monitor who's using various licenses like Office, CAD, Visio, and Lumion.

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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

"Cortex covers everything I need. It's a perfect solution. Cortex provides a different level of visibility because it's an extended EDR, allowing you to grab logs from the network and firewalls. Palo Alto invented the concept of the extended EDR or XDR."

"From the Palo Alto side, whatever they buy, they integrate that really well into their integration suite, and that makes a massive difference."

"My advice for anybody who is considering Cortex XDR is that it is a complete solution, and has very good features."

"Cortex XDR is a very capable solution for protecting large networks and a lot of endpoints. It's very useful because the automation is very high, and if you combine it with the features on Palo Alto firewalls, it provides very strong protection."

"One of the main benefits of the solution is its intelligence to correlate the events into an incident."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks has accelerated the response time for my security team, so we have been able to resolve issues faster than usual."

"The ability to kind of stitch everything together and see the actual complete picture is very useful. I guess you'd call it a playbook. Some people call it the forensics analysis of what was happening on particular endpoints when they detected some malicious behavior, and what transpired before that to cause that. It is also very user friendly. The way they have done everything and integrated all the solutions that they've purchased over the years to make it a very seamless, effective product is very good. One thing about Palo Alto is that they take the products or services that they purchase and make them seamless for the end user as compared to some companies that purchase other companies and then just kind of have their products off to the side or keep different interfaces. Palo Alto doesn't do that."

"Cortex XDR lets us manage several clients from the same console, and its endpoint defense is more advanced than traditional antivirus."

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"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"Our team uses the SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform for threat detection, focusing on features like vulnerabilities and asset exposure. The asset exposure feature is packaged with software licenses and machines. We get the latest updates and patches for Windows workstations and applications for remediation. We can automate these updates, which greatly improves our previous manual and scripting-based tools."

"Although it is, in fact, a complete vulnerability management solution, the most valuable feature is the patch management functionality. Most of our customers give preference to this tool over other tools when it comes to patch management."

Cons

"To jump from the partner to Palo Alto directly was challenging."

"There are some third-party solutions that are difficult to integrate with, which is something that can be improved."

"However, if you do not have Palo Alto in your environment, you are paying these additional services just for Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, so it is not a cost-effective solution."

"Product might have some bugs."

"Although I would say this product is highly-rated, it could probably do more because nothing does everything that you want."

"It's very time-consuming to log support issues and the people that answer the tickets aren't very knowledgeable."

"It tends to do 99.9% of things. The only thing I'd like is single sign-on authentication into their cloud platform so that my users can be properly authenticated against it."

"Whenever the tool releases a new version when deploying the product across the organization, I feel like there are some disturbances in the CPU usage after upgrading the tool to the latest version."

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"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 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."

"The price could always be better."

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

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

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

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

"SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform needs to incorporate more documentation."

"SanerNow has good integration with the more well known ITSM tools, but at the same time there are many other ITSM (IT Service Management) tools available in the market, including local tools here in India, and I'm not sure how SanerNow plans to integrate with them all out of the box."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."

"This is an expensive solution."

"I did PoCs on products called Cylance and CrowdStrike. Although, I consider these products and they were also good, when it come to cost and budgetary factors, Traps has been proven to be better than the other two products. It is quite cost-effective and delivers all the entire solution which we require."

"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."

"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."

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

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

"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."

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

"As with several other solutions such as Microsoft MECM and SCCM, the licensing for SanerNow involves per-device pricing for each kind of product or service on offer."

"The pricing is reasonable - we paid about 2.5 million for 3,500 nodes."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Construction Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	56

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

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

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

Red Canary Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

SecPod SanerNow, SanerNow RP

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

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

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform provides comprehensive security by managing, auto-fixing vulnerabilities, and aligning with cybersecurity standards. It is designed for effective IT infrastructure maintenance.

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform enables organizations to maintain strong cybersecurity with its automation capabilities, real-time threat detection, and adherence to compliance regulations. Its features allow seamless management of endpoints, ensuring constant protection against threats. The platform is beneficial for IT teams seeking an efficient and automated solution for endpoint security management.

What are the key features of SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform?

Automated Vulnerability Management: Continuously scans and detects vulnerabilities, helping organizations stay protected.
Patch Management: Ensures all systems are updated with the latest patches, reducing the risk of exploitation.
Compliance Reporting: Provides reports that help demonstrate compliance with industry standards.
Incident Response: Allows quick action on security incidents, minimizing potential damage.

What are potential benefits and ROI from using SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform?

Increased Security: Enhances overall security posture by automating threat detection and response.
Enhanced Efficiency: Reduces manual effort with automated processes, freeing up IT resources for strategic tasks.
Cost-effectiveness: Minimizes costs associated with security breaches and manual operations.
Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory requirements, avoiding potential fines.

SanerNow CyberHygiene Platform is used in industries such as finance and healthcare where security and compliance are critical. It helps these sectors by addressing vulnerabilities promptly and ensuring infrastructure integrity while meeting stringent regulatory demands crucial for industry-specific operations.

Secpod Technologies

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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

Siemens, Aruba, SironLabs, POS Aviation, Kotak, Kaizen Automotive, Amagi, McNeilus Steel, Claremont, Glassbeam, Marlabs, Amazon Web Services

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