Elastic vs Huntress

About Huntress

Huntress products are built to protect organizations of all sizes. Huntress security experts manage endpoints and identities for over 285K organizations.^[4]

Huntress Managed EDR provides 24/7 coverage with human threat hunters who validate threats. Huntress Managed ITDR is designed to detect, respond to and resolve identity-based threats such as account takeovers, business email compromise and unauthorized logins. Huntress Managed ITDR covers the continuous monitoring side of identity and access requirements in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Huntress Managed ITDR detects identity-based techniques such as adversary-in-the-middle attacks, business email compromise and MFA bypass.^[1][5][6]

Huntress Managed ITDR is built to detect existing malicious inbox rules from the moment a tenant is onboarded. Huntress telemetry includes signals from both Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange, covering events from role escalations to suspicious inbox rules and mailbox permission updates.^[7]

Learning Mode previews policy impact before anything changes.^[3]

The Huntress Managed SAT platform provides short episodes featuring storylines that train learners on security awareness topics. The Huntress team can fully manage a customer SAT program, including creating, curating and scheduling learning. Huntress builds monthly learning plans and phishing campaigns based on the threats compromising people every day. Huntress Managed SAT integrates with email, Slack and Microsoft Teams to notify users about learning assignments. Huntress Managed SAT syncs with an identity provider to keep employees updated in the Huntress platform. Huntress offers a Custom Content Creator Tool for training teams on elements of the business that go beyond SAT. Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training for GDPR teaches employees about GDPR privacy compliance in less than 10 minutes. Huntress Phishing Simulated Training corrects users in the moment when they fail a phishing test.^{[1][3][4][5][8][9]}

Inside the Huntress 24/7 SOC, a proprietary AI-powered investigation system assists with investigating, correlating and summarizing, while in-house analysts own the decisions that demand human expertise. Athena is built to work alongside the human SOC experts at Huntress. Athena gathers context, connects telemetry and drafts incident reports before a human looks at the investigation. Athena groups behavior across endpoints, identities, logs and users into a single investigation. More than 40 specialized agents run the same playbooks and guardrails the Huntress analysts use. Huntress states that AI is a tool to augment human expertise, not replace it. The Huntress Adversary Tactics and SOC teams work together by hunting, tracking and analyzing novel threats around the world.^[1][11]

Huntress makes compliance support accessible to all businesses, including those undergoing CMMC Level 2 audits. Huntress combines managed endpoint, identity and log monitoring with 24/7 AI-centric SOC review. Managed SAT tracks whether employees complete training, flags risky behaviors and produces participation records. Huntress is channel-first, and most teams purchase Huntress through a partner. Huntress offers partner pricing to MSPs and resellers through its partner program. Huntress pricing is based on the number of endpoints, identities, learners and data sources.^{[1][3][6][7][8][10]}