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Field Effect MDR vs. Huntress
Field Effect MDR
Huntress
Risk management
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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.
Threat disruption and containment
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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.
Flexible packages
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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.
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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.
Technology
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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.
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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.
Value
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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.
The above information is based on publicly available market information at the time of writing and may not reflect the latest product updates or offerings.
We searched the entire globe for the right security partner to elevate our stack of tools and Field Effect has met those expectations to allow us to offer best in class defensive tools to our market.
Our collaboration with Field Effect elevates our clients' security to a superior level, ensuring both their protection and our peace of mind.
Unlike traditional security tools that rely heavily on automation, Field Effect MDR provides a team of real humans behind the platform.
If you are considering any additions or changes to your cybersecurity stack, you need to check out this solution.
I love this product because it does exactly what Field Effect said it would do.
How real users rate leading MDR vendors
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Huntress |
Arctic Wolf |
Rapid7 MDR |
CrowdStrike |
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| Overall satisfaction | 91% | 84% | 81% | 77% | 86% |
| Business value created | 95% | 88% | 85% | 78% | 87% |
| Breadth of features | 89% | 81% | 72% | 76% | 88% |
| Quality of features | 91% | 89% | 72% | 76% | 87% |
| Usability | 93% | 85% | 81% | 72% | 87% |
| Vendor support | 96% | 91% | 89% | 82% | 82% |
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