Huntress vs. Microsoft Defender XDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Huntress
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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.N/A
Microsoft Defender XDR
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Microsoft 365 Defender combines SIEM and XDR capabilities for Microsoft 365 environments, encompassing threat detection, post-breach detection, automated investigation, and response for endpoints. Additionally, it protects cloud apps, emails and documents, and employee identities.N/A
Pricing
HuntressMicrosoft Defender XDR
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HuntressMicrosoft Defender XDR
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
HuntressMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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7.7
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Usability
9.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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9.0
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In-Person Training
-
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9.1
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Online Training
-
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
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User Testimonials
HuntressMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
A great product that highlights any and all persistent footholds on the network and does a great job on breach monitoring. The support staff are great, efficient, and are able to reach out when there is an issue. Most problems are cleared out/mitigated before we even know about them. A great product to add to your security stack.
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Suit Really in everything, what is modern cloud work especially really if you work in a global company where your IT team is not always operational hour of the business users so that everything is really in the cloud can be managed from everywhere, but we do not access to local resources anymore. That's really a good point. What is always a little bit the pressure point is that general things in cloud things are moving fast so it's always difficult to keep the teams that is using these words up to date
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Pros
  • 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.
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  • The software uses advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to monitor activities and detect any anomalies immediately, protecting our financial data.
  • Automated responses to known threats reduce the impact of possible incidents and improve our security posture.
  • Microsoft 365 Defender easily combines with other Microsoft 365 services and external security solutions, providing a complete and unified security solution.
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • Microsoft 365 Defenders risk assessment and remediation tool can be improved while tackling and preventing the attack.
  • As there are multiple new attacks are getting discovered to prevent and remediate those attacks the Microsoft 365 Defenders database should be keep updated and ready.
  • The Microsoft 365 Defenders capability to identify the insider attacker can be improved.
  • Automate response generated to remediate the attack can be strengthen.
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Likelihood to Renew
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All though most of the features are upto mark, there are certain times where there have been misses to detect spam, phising emails. this might be due to the subject and content of the email being more sophisticated than standard .
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Usability
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.
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The product is easy to deploy and very customisable.
Available if a simple UI and seamless software implementation process.
Microsoft Defender XDR integrates well with various security systems.
Software compatibility and scalability.
Ability of the software in efficiently analysing and detecting threats in both the system and Website.
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Support Rating
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Their support throughout our onboarding of the product was fabulous. They not only took the time to carefully explain to teams not as well equipped with the lingo but explained to the tech team how to teach the other teams to be successful. They never once seemed impatient or annoyed with basic questions and didn’t pretend to know something when they needed to research an answer
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In-Person Training
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Good and hard to find someonme who can explain everything for you beside Microsoft they provide you everything you need.
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Online Training
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Microsoft Provides a good training for the Microsoft 365 Defender and has a good learning paths to learn and take the exams and get your Certifications.
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Implementation Rating
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seemless and almost transparent. can be deployed by script if needed so every endpoint on our system get's it. if you have intune it gets dumped on the the endpoint by policy so nothing escapes it
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Alternatives Considered
Huntress may not be a complete SOC such as Blackpoint, but the level of protection is close. Huntress provides a set of human eyes always hunting for persistent threats on your endpoints. Huntress also seems less noisy with no false positives, so no time is wasted reviewing alerts.
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We chose Microsoft Defender XDR for the ability to correlament the dangers in the Microsoft Ecosystem, Strong Automation, and email, Identification, Estruction, Establishment Points and Cloud Apps in the same platform. This gave us the end-to-end visibility without the need to sew several devices simultaneously.
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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.
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  • Cost-Efficiency: Microsoft Defender XDR often proves cost-effective compared to implementing multiple standalone security solutions, consolidating threat detection and response capabilities.
  • Time Savings: Its centralized dashboard and automated features can save time for security teams, allowing them to focus on critical tasks
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ScreenShots

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