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Discover how SaaS Alerts beats Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365
Meet SaaS Alerts, an automated cybersecurity platform for MSPs to protect SaaS applications from internal and external threats. While the new Huntress security software — MDR for Microsoft 365 — relies on human analysis, our platform quickly and accurately acts against unauthorized activity automatically.
Automation outperforms human analysis in speed, consistency and scalability.
Why SaaS Alerts Is Better than Huntress Security Software
Threat Detection
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Our platform analyzes vast amounts of data and continuously alerts MSPs about unusual user behavior to quickly eliminate threats. | All alerts are analyzed by a Huntress agent. Relying on human verification could result in missed alerts or delays in detecting a threat. |
Automated Remediation
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Using our Respond module, you can customize rules to automatically address security threats, guaranteeing fast and automated action against threats. | You need to execute the remediation steps of Huntress’s managed detection and response (MDR) for M365 with one-click approval, leading to a time lag in threat response. |
Customization Capabilities
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MSPs can customize activities they want to track, events that warrant an alert, and the frequency of alerts. You configure the security thresholds, and SaaS Alerts automatically handles the rest. | MSPs rely on Huntress ThreatOps agents to analyze events and identify suspicious activities. MSPs do not have control over the security thresholds, such as what alerts to receive and how often. |
More Integrations
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| Besides protecting cloud applications like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Dropbox, Slack, Okta and Duo, SaaS Alerts also integrates with most RMM tools for comprehensive protection. | Integrates only with Microsoft 365 to detect suspicious behaviors within the tenant. Huntress IT does not provide comprehensive coverage and adaptability to diverse environments and tools. |
Microsoft 365 Security Configurations
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Our security policy automation capabilities enable MSPs to quickly apply Microsoft security recommendations across all their clients with a single click. |
Huntress software not only falls short in deploying security recommendations but also requires you to disable M365 security defaults to use their tool. |
Comprehensive Reporting
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Our comprehensive reports provide full visibility into security events that can adversely affect SaaS environments and compromise end users. | The incident report is customized based on the Huntress agent‘s findings and next steps. Lack of comprehensiveness affects the MSP’s visibility into security risks. |
Data Retention
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By maintaining log data for 365 days, SaaS Alerts helps MSPs extensively analyze security issues and comply with regulations, enhancing overall safety and accountability. | Huntress maintains Microsoft log data for two weeks. The absence of log retention in Huntress security software prevents MSPs from tracking long-term trends and complying with regulatory requirements. |
SaaS Alerts vs MDR for Microsoft 365 by Huntress Software:
Features Overview
In addition to enhancing cybersecurity efforts by detecting threats like BEC and MFA hacking, SaaS Alerts’ high-margin and value-added service increases monthly recurring revenue for MSPs. Our comprehensive reports help MSPs acquire new customers and retain existing ones by providing visibility into SaaS security gaps and demonstrating how the MSP can close the gaps and keep bad actors out.
Let’s take a look at why SaaS Alerts is a better alternative to Huntress.
Monitoring | SaaS Alerts | Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 |
Continuous monitoring and alerting | ✅ | ✅ |
Tracking user activity, data breach attempts and file activity | ✅ | ✅ |
Monitoring of documentation and RMM tools | ✅ | ❌ |
Actions aggregated into meaningful events to identify risky behavior | ✅ | ❌ |
Monitoring RMM connected devices to user behavior | ✅ | ❌ |
Malicious IP tracking | ✅ | ❌ |
| Remediation | SaaS Alerts | Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 |
| Automatic remediation of security events | ✅ | ❌ |
| Fully automated remediation of compromised accounts (or accounts that show evidence of compromise) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Easy elimination of unnecessary guest user accounts | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automated remediation of critical issues including impossible travel, data egress and events outside of the approved location | ✅ | ❌ |
| Automated remediation of IAM and DLP events | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrations | SaaS Alerts | Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 |
| Integrates with professional services automation (PSA) tools | ✅ | ✅ |
| Integrates with Microsoft 365 | ✅ | ✅ |
| Offers Microsoft 365 configuration for baselining policies | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Google Workspace | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Slack | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Salesforce | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Dropbox | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Okta | ✅ | ❌ |
| Integrates with Duo | ✅ | ❌ |
| Reporting | SaaS Alerts | Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 |
| Scheduled reports to provide clients with constant visibility | ✅ | ❌ |
| Monthly scheduled executive reports for full visibility into clients’ Microsoft 365 environments | ✅ | ✅ |
| Log data maintained for 365 days | ✅ | ❌ |
| Free reports to assist with prospecting clients | ✅ | ❌ |
| Employee activity reporting, including downloading, deleting and sharing files | ✅ | ❌ |
How SaaS Alerts Hunts Down Cyber Threats
While Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 gives visibility into Microsoft 365 environments, the dependency on their internal team for detection and response leads to time lag. With SaaS Alerts, you can configure security thresholds on multiple applications to minimize response time to detected threats and reduce potential damage and data loss.
As a comprehensive security platform, SaaS Alerts’ portfolio includes:
Alerts
Continuously monitor user behavior and file activity. Receive alerts when cybersecurity threats are detected.
Assessments
Assess the current security state and potential risks to better demonstrate value to customers and prospects.
Remediation
Use predefined rules for automated responses to incidents and threats without burdening your team.
Fortify
Apply Microsoft security recommendations across clients to boost security posture quickly and efficiently.
Switch to SaaS Alerts for Swift Threat Hunting
With SaaS Alerts, you can monitor SaaS applications for abnormal user behavior and usage of SaaS applications.
Being one of the top Huntress alternatives, our unified and automated platform can analyze vast amounts of data with greater precision than human analysts. SaaS Alerts also offers free internal use for MSPs to monitor IT documentation and RMM tools so they can better protect their own business.
The comparisons made on this webpage are only in reference to the functionality of the Huntress MDR for Microsoft 365 tool. All information contained herein is based on publicly available information as of September 20, 2023.
