Huntress

Huntress was founded in 2015 by Kyle Hanslovan and Chris Bisnett, both former U.S. National Security Agency cybersecurity professionals, based on the observation that small and mid-sized businesses face largely the same sophisticated cyber threats as large enterprises but almost never have the budget or in-house expertise to build a dedicated security operations team capable of continuously monitoring for and responding to those threats, a gap that most established cybersecurity vendors, which have historically focused their most sophisticated products and services on large enterprise customers, have not adequately addressed for the small business market. Huntress's platform combines security software with a team of human threat analysts who continuously monitor for signs of compromise across its customers' systems, providing the kind of always-on security operations center capability that small businesses could never economically build and staff themselves, while pricing and packaging its service specifically for the small business budget and technical sophistication level, distinct from enterprise-focused competitors whose products and pricing are typically designed for organizations with dedicated internal IT security staff. The company distributes its product almost entirely through managed service providers (MSPs), the outsourced IT companies that many small businesses rely on for their general IT support and management needs, letting Huntress reach the highly fragmented small business market efficiently by equipping MSPs to offer sophisticated managed detection and response services to their existing small business clients as an addition to their existing IT service relationships, rather than Huntress needing to build direct sales relationships with a very large number of individual small businesses itself. Huntress has expanded its product offerings beyond its original endpoint detection and response core to include broader security capabilities including identity threat detection and security awareness training. The company has raised substantial venture funding from investors including Sapphire Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, and has grown to become a well-known cybersecurity vendor focused specifically on the small and mid-market business segment via the MSP channel.

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