BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS) vs. Huntress

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
BlackBerry Optics originated from Cylance, which became a Blackberry company from the early 2019 acquisition. BlackBerry Optics (formerly CylanceOPTICS) is an incident response solution emphasizing fast endpoint detection and automated smart threat response, root cause and context analysis, and other features.N/A
Huntress
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Huntress is a security platform that surfaces hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The platform helps IT resellers protect their customers from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Features
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Incident Response Platforms
Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of Product A and Product B
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)
10.0
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Huntress
-
Ratings
Company-wide Incident Reporting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Other Security Systems10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Attack Chain Visualization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Dashboard10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Live Response for Rapid Remediation10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)Huntress
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.2
(13 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BlackBerry Optics (CylanceOPTICS)Huntress
Likelihood to Recommend
BlackBerry
You can set rules based on specific scenarios to run on machines. For example, you can use this to enable or disable machine learning to block or allow things that users regularly use. You can also log specific attacks on machines (for research later).
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
Huntress is great for a managed service provider to provide a better cybersecurity stack to their endpoints/customers. Some smaller clients cannot afford high-priced SOC services but require SOC-level protection. Along with a couple of other layers of security, Huntress provides peace of mind for the MSP that if a threat were to arise, they would be notified with specific instructions for dealing with that threat.
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Pros
BlackBerry
  • Maps out solid template frameworks.
  • Makes reporting to executives easy to compile and understand.
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • Using the latest industry knowledge of threats that have been ongoing, but not previously known and projecting it back in time against their installed endpoints to identify machines that are vulnerable or breached and when it these events occurred
  • Very quiet. If they alert, it is a thing.
  • Very good at remediation.
  • They communicate extremely well when it matters.
  • While there are the most extensive products more often than not they are the first to alert us to a threat.
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Cons
BlackBerry
  • No major complaints! Love everything about the service.
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • Now that they have EDR capability, they need to fully participate in MITRE testing for direct comparison against other EDR products.
  • Now that they are going into Managed Antivirus and EDR with isolation capabilities they need to update their SLA comparative to other vendors
  • Support for non-Windows OSes for consistency in a network
  • It would be nice to seed canary files in custom shares on servers.
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Usability
BlackBerry
No answers on this topic
Huntress Labs Incorporated
We dropped SentinelOne in favor of Huntress because the UI was much more simplistic for the tier 1 techs to maintain. It beats the old web design model of three clicks to where you want to go. It is very intuitive. No one needs training to figure out how to navigate its console.
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Support Rating
BlackBerry
I haven’t seen that there is much support for it. It seems like a lot of trial and error is/will be involved.
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
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Alternatives Considered
BlackBerry
We use Cylance in conjunction with two other products. We have ArcticWolf for monitoring the machines at an even finer detail than Cylance (they can pick up things that can be missed). We also use Cisco Umbrella to block potentially malicious DNS queries. The combination of these three products helps us feel much more secure than if we had just one.
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
Firstly from a business model, [VMware] Carbon Black [Cloud Managed Detection] was not outfitted for the MSP where Huntress is very MSP-friendly from an affordably easy point to entry to value for money licensing. Carbon Black TS is not bad in anyway, well, that we found, but Huntress is a new layer of security that fits between the OS and AV layers to provide additional information, monitoring, and detection. With Huntress backing the MSP, [it] sure does help as well.
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Return on Investment
BlackBerry
  • Addresses known gaps easily.
  • Quick to implement.
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Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • We have been able to lower operational costs by shifting to Huntress.
  • We've been able to cut costs to our clients by utilizing Huntress over competing products.
  • In spite of inflation, we've been able to keep our managed service prices at a steady, below market rate, because of Huntress.
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