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Every EDR vendor says they stop threats. The hard part is telling the real protection from the dashboard that just looks busy. Make the wrong choice and you've bought alerts nobody answers.
This guide gives you a dependable way to compare EDR tools and choose one that actually protects your endpoints.
Must-have EDR features
Real detection of suspicious behavior, not just known malware signatures
Fast, guided response, isolation, remediation, and clear next steps
Lightweight deployment that doesn't slow machines or your team down
Visibility into what happened, so you can answer 'how bad is it?' Quickly.
How to evaluate a vendor
Who investigates the alerts—you, or someone on their side?
How much tuning before the noise dies down?
What does response actually look like at 2am?
Can it scale across every endpoint you manage?
Common pitfalls
Buying a tool that needs a full-time analyst you don't have
Mistaking a flood of alerts for strong protection
Ignoring the cost of running it day to day
What good EDR looks like
Managed EDR gives you detection and response backed by a 24/7 AI-centric Security Operations Center, so you get the protection without inheriting a full-time monitoring job. See where it fits on the Huntress platform.
Breaking the Kill Chain: How to Stop Ransomware Before the Encryption Starts
The ransom note isn't the beginning of an attack—it's the finish line. Most security failures happen because teams focus on the "boom" rather than the silent precursors. This virtual event pulls back the curtain on the critical window between initial breach and total lockout.
Next-Level Threat Hunting with Huntress Managed SIEM
Hackers are constantly finding new ways to sneak past defenses. But this is your new way to shut them down.
Huntress Managed SIEM takes threat hunting to the next level—and you’ll see how in this exclusive 45-minute session for our partners.
Huntress and Acrisure have teamed up to give growing organizations a simpler path to cyber resilience that combines proactive protection with financial security.
Huntress Managed EDR provides fully-managed, enterprise-grade endpoint protection that’s backed by our team of industry-recognized threat experts and the global 24/7 Huntress SOC.
Pursuing Parity: Attempting to Bring Cross-Platform Unity
Feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux sounds simple on a product roadmap. Actually building it means reconciling fundamentally different operating systems. Here's how Huntress is approaching it.
New Faces and Features to Help You Evolve the Hunt
Hackers are getting smarter and Huntress is getting bigger. The platform enters Q4 with 30+ new team members and the most robust features and ThreatOps support in the company's history.
Security stacks that worked yesterday are becoming outdated fast. Huntress Managed Antivirus adds 24/7 SOC oversight to endpoint protection, and it's now available for partners and their customers.
Where Do You Think You're Going? How Huntress Addresses Lateral Movement
Once attackers are inside, lateral movement is how they deepen a compromise and make removal much harder. Here's exactly how Huntress detects and disrupts it before it spreads.
Make Your Microsoft Security Tools Come to Life with Huntress
Microsoft has come a long way in security, and Huntress is built to complement it. Here's how Huntress works alongside Microsoft's native security tools to catch what Defender alone can miss.
[PH] Learn More About Phishing
[PH] Huntress delivers everything you want from a security tool, all designed with the unique needs of outsourced IT and security teams in mind.
[PH] Phishing attempts can show up as messages from your bank, your boss, your utility providers, or even the government. One click from one user can compromise an entire network and inadvertently let hackers deploy ransomware, steal information, or worse.
[PH] The median time it takes for a user to click a link and enter information is less than 60 seconds. With a turnaround time that quick, it's no wonder phishing is one of the preferred methods used by hackers. (2024 Verizon Data Breach Report)