Huntress MDR

The Detection Gap

Most small and medium businesses run antivirus, maybe an EDR, and consider security handled. The problem is that AV catches commodity malware on the way in, but it doesn’t catch what attackers actually do once they’re past it. The breaches that hit the news rarely involve a virus signature getting through. They involve an attacker landing a foothold — a scheduled task, a registry key, a malicious OAuth app, a stolen session token — and then patiently moving through the environment for weeks before exfiltrating data or detonating ransomware.

That gap — between initial access and observable damage — is where attackers actually live. Spotting them in that window requires looking at a different set of signals than antivirus watches: persistence mechanisms, lateral movement patterns, identity anomalies, suspicious OAuth grants, anomalous mailbox rules. It also requires humans who recognize the patterns, because the data is too noisy and too contextual for pure automation.

Enterprises solve this with their own internal SOC and threat hunters. SMBs can’t afford that team. Huntress was built specifically to close that gap for businesses too small to staff a SOC of their own.

Why Huntress

Huntress is a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform built by ex-NSA threat hunters specifically for the SMB and MSP market. The platform combines lightweight agents with a 24/7/365 human-staffed Security Operations Center that reviews every alert before it ever lands on your IT team’s desk. Full product details are at huntress.com.

• Managed EDR — endpoint detection focused on persistence mechanisms, fileless attacks, and post-exploitation behavior that traditional AV misses
• Managed ITDR — Identity Threat Detection & Response for Microsoft 365 and Entra ID; catches malicious OAuth apps, mailbox rule abuse, suspicious sign-ins, and account takeover
• Managed SIEM — log aggregation and analytics with detection rules curated by Huntress threat researchers
• Managed Security Awareness Training — phishing simulation and short-form training that employees actually complete
• 24/7 human SOC — every alert reviewed by a real analyst before notification, eliminating the false-positive fatigue that paralyzes most security tools
• Built-in remediation — the SOC produces guided isolation and cleanup steps for confirmed threats; no waiting on a separate IR firm
• Lightweight agent — designed to run alongside existing AV/EDR without conflict; many clients keep Microsoft Defender or SentinelOne and add Huntress on top
• Tradecraft Tuesday and threat reports — ongoing public threat research that surfaces in the platform’s detection rules

That’s the platform. The next question is what it looks like to actually run Huntress in your environment — agent deployment, alert handling, response coordination, and how it fits with the security tools you already have.