Cybersecurity company Huntress is a little bit different. On their website, they call themselves “ethical badasses” who create “purpose-built solutions” to provide “cybersecurity for all, not just the 1%.” And now Microsoft is helping them do it.
Last month, the companies announced a partnership through which Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Business and Defender AV, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, E3, and E5 licenses are now “enhanced with Huntress’ market-leading security products.”
Huntress’ Chief Technology Officer, Chris Bisnett, said the deal would allow users to use Microsoft’s security features to their full potential. “Businesses worldwide trust Microsoft’s ecosystem, but often don’t fully use its potential due to limited resources or expertise,” he said. “We deliver the technology and integrations needed to unlock the full value of Microsoft’s security solutions.”
It’s the second big partnership the company has announced this year. In April, at the RSA Conference, it “unveiled its newly enhanced Managed Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solution, purpose-built to wreck hacker identity tradecraft,” which, like the company’s self-descriptions, sounds pretty cool.
Huntress was founded in 2015 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, where the company has a motto: “As long as hackers keep hacking, we keep hunting.” The deal with Microsoft – at press time, the second-largest company in the world by market cap – gives them the biggest hunting ground possible.
It also gives them the biggest pool of users to keep safe, which has been and remains the goal. “Cybersecurity for all, not just the 1%,” remember. As Bisnett said, “Huntress was founded to make enterprise-grade security accessible to all businesses.” In this case, all means all. If there’s a better way to do it than partner with a nearly $4 trillion company, well, we’re all ears.