Cylance Smart Antivirus vs. Huntress

Cylance Smart Antivirus is well suited for the typical office user. It can be very restrictive if you do not tune it properly and can cause many issues. When tuned and set up properly it is appropriate for 95% of use cases. The last 5% are ones that have the capabilities of bringing an organization down if it is not tuned properly.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Blocking Scripts
• Stopping remote exploits
• easy to install

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Better functionality to whitelist on the Application.
• Easier to setup Mobile Settings
• Easier to understand logs

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Cylance was the first AI scanning-based AV on the market. While Webroot was competitive we found Cylance to be the better solution.

Incentivized

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.

• Too much time to manage.
• Too many false positives.
• Too much lost productivity.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized