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Huntress

Score9.4 out of 10

41 Reviews and Ratings

What is Huntress?

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.

Great Price to Value to Meet Compliance and Security Needs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the EDR, ITDR, and SIEM from Huntress. It helps us with all of our compliance needs with our bank client and improves the security posture of other clients. We are an MSP, and we divided our EDR/MDR needs between two vendors to prevent the all eggs in one basket problem.

Pros

  • UI/UX
  • Security Awareness Training
  • Detection and Response

Cons

  • SIEM
  • Reporting
  • Billing by client segmentation

Return on Investment

  • It is part of the reason why one client is still with us.
  • It was a large factor in acquiring a client who had been promised training by its previous MSP.
  • It has prevented at least one breach.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SentinelOne Singularity, Blackpoint MDR and Webroot Antivirus + Internet Security Complete (SecureAnywhere)

Other Software Used

N‑able DNS Filtering, N‑able DNS Filtering

Huntress is 1 for MDR

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use a range of Huntress product, including MDR, ITDR and SIEM. We brought in the Huntress suite as we wanted a managed product that could continue to detect and respond while we slept. With the introduction of their Office 365 product securing identity we have added additional security to our clients.

Pros

  • Support
  • Remediation
  • Detection

Cons

  • Huntress is very good if they catch a detection however no as good if you catch it.

Return on Investment

  • Due to the remediation format that Huntress provide, it's reduced our need to spend time investigating issues as Huntress does this for us.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Sophos Managed Detection and Response and SentinelOne Vigilance

Other Software Used

Mesh Email Security

Lightweight simple EDR perfect for easy compliance.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In theory we use it for EDR/MDR to protect against attacks, but in reality it's just for compliance and insurance. Our systems are already very isolated and secured, but these days if you don't name an EDR in some areas you either don't get accreditation or insurance, or pay more. Huntress is a very easy to configure and manage EDR/MDR solution.

Pros

  • Easy configuration.
  • Easy monitoring and reporting.

Cons

  • Would be good to see integration with other AV providers than Windows Defender, as neither Defender or Huntress offer great 0 day detection.

Return on Investment

  • It allowed us to tick off the compliance checkbox.
  • Made insurance easier to get/cheaper.
  • I guess it provides some peace of mind re security, but we've never actually had anything that required it to intervene yet, after years.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ESET PROTECT, Sophos Intercept X for Server and Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Other Software Used

ESET PROTECT

Huntress for the win

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Huntress as a tool to monitor for threats on workstations, a SIEM for Windows and Microsoft 365 events, end user security training and phishing simulations, as well as monitor Microsoft 365 accounts for malicious activity. It has addressed our need to have expert eyes on all of our internal components, as well as effectively monitor and manage our clients.

Pros

  • SOC Support when incidents happen
  • Quickly detecting and remediating threats on workstations.
  • Quickly detecting, locking down, and remediating threats on Microsoft 365 accounts.

Cons

  • Expanding ITDR into Google Workspace
  • Enhancing threat monitoring for MacOS
  • Expanding external options for ingesting data into their SIEM

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SentinelOne Vigilance, Blumira, Blackpoint MDR and usecure uLearn

Other Software Used

NinjaOne, DropSuite by NinjaOne, Augmentt, Check Point Harmony SASE, Avanan, Mailprotector

Huntress is in the Game

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Huntress on all of our endpoints. If we ever have an issue they are on the phone before we are. We love that somebody is always watching our networks.

Pros

  • Looks at Code that is running on device
  • Contact use when things are wrong
  • Easy dashboard to see what is going on

Cons

  • I still dont get the MDR part of Huntress and breakdown costs
  • Mac still need work still can't get them fully functional
  • Phone app

Return on Investment

  • I can sleep at night knowing their SOC is watching.
  • Never had an issue with an agent uninstalling or not working
  • Great support

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Webroot Antivirus + Internet Security Complete (SecureAnywhere)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Brave, Adobe Acrobat