Zscaler completed its $675 million acquisition of MDR provider Red Canary on August 1 and expanded its partnership with CrowdStrike to deepen platform integration. The collaboration centers on security operations and managed detection and response, combining Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange with CrowdStrike's Falcon capabilities. Red Canary will operate as a Zscaler division while leveraging CrowdStrike's endpoint context and agentic AI. The integration aims to strengthen endpoint security, improve threat detection, and reduce SecOps response times. The move occurs amid intensified platformization and competitive investments from rivals like Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft.
Zscaler and CrowdStrike have expanded their partnership. This comes shortly after Zscaler's definitive acquisition of MDR player Red Canary. The deepened collaboration focuses on security operations and managed detection and response, with both security companies further integrating their platforms. For CrowdStrike, the partnership provides access to Red Canary's agentic AI functionality. These AI capabilities were a key reason behind Zscaler's acquisition of the company. The integration is expected to strengthen CrowdStrike's endpoint security and reduce response times.
The partnership expansion follows Zscaler's completion of the Red Canary acquisition on August 1. That $675 million deal forms the basis for this deeper integration between the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and CrowdStrike's Falcon platform. Red Canary will continue to operate under its own name as a division within Zscaler. The MDR platform can now benefit from "deep endpoint context" from CrowdStrike's broad security ecosystem. This combination should lead to improved threat detection and faster response times for SecOps teams.
The two companies have been working together for years due to their complementary focus. CrowdStrike focuses on endpoint security, while Zscaler offers zero-trust access as an alternative to traditional network security. This complementary nature has already led to integrations between Zscaler's platforms and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, as CRN reported in response to the new deal. The deepened collaboration comes at a time of increasing platformization within cybersecurity.
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