Compare Field Effect MDR vs. Huntress

Field Effect MDR

Huntress

Field Effect MDR helps you proactively manage cybersecurity risk by identifying and prioritizing the most critical threats for remediation.

It disrupts and contains active threats while minimizing the opportunity for future attacks with continuous vulnerability management, dark web monitoring, email analysis, and more.

Huntress leaves much of your risk unmanaged, reacting only to in-progress attacks across endpoints and Microsoft 365 accounts, leaving critical attack surfaces vulnerable. While Huntress' external IP scanning provides limited posture management, other risks like unpatched software, legacy protocols, and misconfigurations remain open for exploitation.

Field Effect MDR stops threats early in the kill chain, blocking malware and ransomware while neutralizing active attacks on your behalf.

Flexible response policies allow users to tailor responses by organization and user, balancing business continuity with risk management via both automated and manually verified responses.

Huntress cannot block ransomware or malware, responding only after threats have established a foothold.

Manual responses slow remediation and prevent users from enabling automatic protections like host isolation or account locking—leaving critical devices and accounts exposed to high-confidence threats.

Field Effect MDR Complete and MDR Core are purpose-built and right-priced to meet a range of cybersecurity needs—from low-complexity clients to those with robust compliance and cyber insurance requirements.

The flexible packages simplify security by consolidating essential tools and services into one solution, ensuring comprehensive protection for your clients' critical assets.

Huntress Managed EDR and Managed ITDR are built for customers with low IT complexity.

Without a more advanced package, partners must rely on third-party tools to support clients with complex needs— including cyber insurance requirements and compliance mandates. This leads to gaps in defense, leaving customers exposed to risks their solution wasn’t built to handle.

Field Effect MDR’s natively built technology delivers unified visibility across client environments, providing high-fidelity threat detection to stop attacks early. Its effectiveness is proven—ranking 2nd fastest in mean time to detect (MTTD) in the 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Managed Services - Round 2.

Field Effect MDR continually evolves to stay ahead of emerging threats and exceed partner expectations with innovative features and solutions.

The Huntress platform is a medley of externally acquired and internally developed technology, offering fractured visibility into the client environment. Data siloes limit the critical context needed to detect threats early, resulting in an immature defense that leaves clients open to risk and creates administrative difficulties.

Huntress has not been publicly tested in a third-party security evaluation.

Field Effect MDR brings together essential security tools and services into a single, comprehensive solution—maximizing efficiency while delivering industry-leading protection and value with per-user pricing.

Huntress falls short of providing comprehensive protection, forcing the addition of tools for vulnerability management, network detection and response, DNS security, kernel-level EDR, and dark web monitoring. This increases administrative complexity and drives up the total cost of ownership.

Preventing incidents before they occur is demonstrably the most cost-effective approach.

Jeff Farr

CEO – Sera-Brynn

Enterprise level security that is easily managed by a small team.

Eric B. – C-Suite

Field Effect MDR goes beyond just being an EDR tool.

Melissa C. – Account Manager

Fix-before-you-break has proven a helpful methodology in keeping our services up, running, and secure.

Jake D. – IT

We also considered Huntress. We find Field Effect is way better.

Anmol Nagpal

Operations Support Specialist – SupportMyMac

	Field Effect MDR	Huntress	Arctic Wolf	Rapid7 MDR	CrowdStrike
Overall satisfaction	88%	84%	82%	77%	83%
Business value created	89%	89%	87%	81%	87%
Likeliness to recommend	97%	92%	86%	83%	91%
Quality of features	89%	88%	77%	77%	83%
Usability	89%	88%	83%	67%	81%
Vendor support	93%	92%	85%	80%	81%

Field Effect MDR vs. Huntress