Sydney, 12 April 2023 – Managed endpoint detection and response solution, Huntress, has launched in Australia and New Zealand with an eye on servicing small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) through the Managed Service Provider (MSP) channel.

Founded by former NSA cyber operators and backed by ThreatOps researchers, Huntress empowers MSPs to easily deploy managed endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions.

With a large investment in on-shore threat hunting and product support personnel, the Huntress ANZ team is led by Regional Director, Reece Appleton, formerly of Datto.

“Cybersecurity in Australia isn’t just an enterprise problem anymore. ACSC suggests 43 per cent of all cybercrime in Australia is directed towards SMBs. Malicious actors are targeting these businesses (SMBs) because they know they are under-protected and can be resistant to cybersecurity change,” Appleton comments.

“A lot of those SMBs are serviced by the MSP community, who despite being technological leaders, run into a number of challenges when trying to deploy and manage security solutions which have been built for the enterprise.

“The challenge for MSPs is that most EDRs are too noisy and costly to manage. They typically don’t have the security expertise to threat hunt and manage them effectively, let alone the time or capacity to do so. Human security analysts are critical, and outsourcing to a SOC or a MDR product is usually too costly for MSPs to scale,” Appleton says.

Built from the ground up with SMBs and MSPs in mind, Huntress provides an easy to deploy, low noise EDR solution which is managed 24/7 by ThreatOps teams across the UK, US and Australia. With the acquisition of Security Awareness Training solution Curricula, and new products on their roadmap, Huntress will help MSPs protect their customers with a suite of purpose built cybersecurity solutions.

This focus on the MSP community has seen Huntress play key roles in protecting and advising MSPs and vendors in a number of high-profile attacks. Huntress discovered and led the response to Kaseya’s VSA supply chain attack in 2021 and has been heavily involved in other incidents such as the supply chain exploitation of SolarWinds Orion, zero day vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange, and most recently the 3CX exploit.

“Huntress is well known in the MSP community because of our involvement in high profile incidents like the Kaseya VSA and Solarwinds Orion attacks. Our founders care deeply about the MSP community, which is shared throughout the entire organisation, and can be seen in the thought leadership and support we put out into the community,” Appleton comments.

“To ensure MSPs and their customers in ANZ can access the cybersecurity expertise and support we’re known for,  we’re investing heavily into local cybersecurity experts, particularly across our ThreatOps, product support and sales engineering teams.”

“Finally, we understand the local market, with decades of MSP and cybersecurity experience across the ANZ team. MSPs want a partner, not just a vendor, so we’re putting a lot of effort into cybersecurity education and partner enablement. We know partners want to educate their customers and offer solutions which align to frameworks like the Essential Eight and NIST, so we’re building the pathway there.”

With central Headquarters located in Maryland, United States, Chief Revenue Officer, Mike LaPeters comments, “Huntress is thrilled to expand our presence across the ANZ region to provide increased security and defence against attacks and threats.  Reece and team are well positioned to help MSPs defend the three million plus SMBs that are the lifeblood of the economy in the region.”

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ABOUT HUNTRESS

Hackers are constantly evolving, exploiting new vulnerabilities and dwelling in IT environments—until they meet Huntress.

Huntress protects small and mid-market businesses from modern cyberattacks. Founded by former NSA Cyber Operators—and backed by a team of 24/7 threat hunters—our managed security platform defends businesses from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.

At its core, The Huntress Managed Security Platform enables users to do the following:

• Identify open ports that can lead to potential exposures or easy entry points for attackers.
• Identify, isolate and remove attackers who are attempting to break into their environments with near-real time process insights.
• Protect against a wide variety of viruses, trojans and related threats with a leading antivirus solution.
• Detect ransomware faster, enabling businesses to respond swiftly and minimise the spread of attacks that can cripple entire organisations
• Detect advanced malware and persistence-enabled threats, which enable bad actors to maintain long-term access to a device or environment after they’ve bypassed other security systems.
• Respond to all threat types with a combination of automated scripts and actions, handwritten incident reports with easy-to-follow instructions and an incredibly engaged support team that puts the security of our partners above all else
• Augment internal staff with a global team of highly capable analysts and 24/7 threat hunters who deliver the crucial ‘management’ layer of security that our partners are lacking.
• Empower non-security professionals to level up their knowledge and education, and to easily and effectively leverage our platform—with no prior cyber experience required.

CORPORATE STATISTICS

• 3600+ Partners (technology service providers and resellers globally)
• 83k+ End Customers (our partners’ customers: small and mid-sized businesses)
• 2M+ Endpoints Monitored

Huntress is how SMBs do cybersecurity. Learn more at www.huntress.com and follow us on social @HuntressLabs.