# Red Canary a Zscaler company

> Red Canary, acquired by Zscaler in August 2025, provides cloud-based managed detection and response that combines security telemetry, behavioral analytics, human investigation and supervised AI. It helps internal security teams find and respond to threats across endpoints, identities, cloud services and SaaS applications, with related offerings for phishing response, log retention and incident preparedness.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** Denver, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Beyer (Co-founder; CEO at acquisition), Chris Rothe (Co-founder; founding CTO), Keith McCammon (Co-founder; Chief Security Officer)
- **Products:** Managed Detection and Response, Expert-supervised AI agents, Security Data Lake, Managed Phishing Response, Readiness Exercises
- **Notable:** Raised an $81 million Series C in February 2021., Reported its first positive operating margins in Q3 FY2025, announced December 2024., Acquired by Zscaler on August 1, 2025.

## Products & services

- **Managed Detection and Response** — 24/7 monitoring, behavioral detection, threat hunting, investigation and response across connected endpoint, identity, cloud and SaaS environments. Current documentation uses Zscaler MDR branding.
- **Expert-supervised AI agents** — Specialized agents support investigation, enrichment, user baselining, threat intelligence and response recommendations, with managed workflows and human oversight.
- **Security Data Lake** — Managed log retention and SQL search; an annual MDR add-on licensed by gigabytes of raw data stored.
- **Managed Phishing Response** — An add-on for triaging user-reported phishing emails and providing tailored feedback; licensed per email account.
- **Readiness Exercises** — Incident preparedness combining training, tabletop exercises and atomic testing in recurring realistic scenarios.
- **Atomic Red Team** — Free, open-source, community-developed library of portable tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
- **Threat Intelligence and response automation** — Research, threat profiles, hunting context and customizable response playbooks integrated into security operations.

## Achievements

- Raised an $81 million Series C in February 2021.
- Reported its first positive operating margins in Q3 FY2025, announced December 2024.
- Acquired by Zscaler on August 1, 2025.
- Released Atomic Red Team publicly in October 2017.
- Reported investigation time falling from over 20 minutes to under three minutes in June 2025; a company-reported result, not an SLA.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Zscaler launched Agentic SOC on September 9, combining specialized AI agents, telemetry, zero trust controls and Zscaler/Red Canary security expertise; announced global availability.
- **2026-09** — September 3 FY2026 results reported $141 million ARR contributed by Red Canary at July 31, 2026.
- **2026-09** — AI documentation updated September 9 describes agents preparing investigation findings for human analyst confirmation.
- **2026-07** — Release notes added Outlook’s built-in Report button support, recipient enrichment and decoded Microsoft Safe Links to Managed Phishing Response.
- **2026-02** — Zscaler’s Q2 letter described further team integration effective February 1 and acknowledged elevated post-acquisition MDR churn.

## Links

- Website: https://redcanary.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/redcanary
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/redcanaryco
- GitHub: https://github.com/redcanaryco
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta6-EmtHx3w

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Last updated: 2026-10-02