How Red Canary Acquisition Will Fortify Zscaler’s MDR Muscle

Zscaler Aims for SOC Leadership With Enhanced Visibility Across Endpoints and Cloud Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • May 29, 2025

Red Canary's experience with AI-driven workflows, mature automation practices, and robust customer base made it stand out in the managed detection and response space, said Zscaler's Adam Geller.

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Zscaler's chief product officer said the proposed buy of Denver-based Red Canary will bring together the former's network and identity signals with the latter's strength in endpoint and cloud detection. The San Jose, California-based cloud security vendor wants to bring its security insights into the Red Canary platform, enhance its threat hunting capabilities, and expand the company's role in security operations (see: Zscaler Buys Red Canary to Elevate AI-Driven Threat Response).

"We looked at a lot of different players in MDR ...