All Huntress Blog Posts
All Huntress Blog Posts
All things cybersecurity engaging and accessible - so you can stay ahead of hackers and boost your cybersecurity savviness.
Securing Healthcare: Handling Cyber Threats with Care
IT in healthcare is getting more decentralized — better for patients, harder to secure. Huntress covers the specific challenges facing clinics, nursing homes, and healthcare providers in today's threat environment.
What Does the Future Hold for Today’s Cybersecurity Leaders?
The challenges of 2025, tight budgets, rising AI anxiety, and increasingly organized cybercrime, didn't go away. They matured. The threat landscape of 2026 is sharper, faster, and more brazen than what we faced previously, and the leaders navigating it deserve an honest, updated picture.
What Is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
BEC is one of the fastest-growing cybercrime categories targeting businesses of all sizes. Here's exactly what it is, how attackers execute it, and why traditional email security keeps missing it.
5 Phishing Email Examples and How to Spot Them
Phishing doesn't need complex technology. It needs human psychology and a moment of inattention. Here are five techniques that work and what to do the moment they show up in your inbox.
SSO vs. MFA: Key Differences, Compared + Explained
As threat actors have become more clever and resourceful, companies need a stronger, more resilient defense. Enter single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA), two fundamental layers of security that can bolster your cyber defense in a relatively easy way. So, how do you choose between SSO vs. MFA? It’s not one or the other—it’s both!
How To Speak To SMBs About Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is hard to sell to non-technical business owners. The answer isn't to go technical. It's to focus on outcomes. Here's how to have that conversation without losing the room.
The Top 3 Cyber Challenges for Mid-Market Businesses
Mid-sized businesses face a distinct set of cybersecurity challenges, sitting between SMB and enterprise. Huntress and Virtual Intelligence Briefing identified the top three threats facing this segment in 2023.
Mid-Sized Businesses vs. The Threat Landscape in 2023
Mid-sized businesses are treated like prime targets in a threat landscape designed to pressure test their defenses. Here's Huntress' take on what 2023 looks like for organizations caught in the middle.
How to Crush Cybercriminals with Managed Antivirus
Eight months after launching Managed Microsoft Defender, tens of thousands of endpoints are protected and Huntress has seen some things. Here's what the team learned from the incidents that came through.
How Huntress Protects SMBs
Cybersecurity threats aren't just an enterprise problem anymore. Here's how Huntress is built specifically for the small and mid-market businesses that most of the security industry ignores.
Making Sense of Alphabet Soup: 16 Security Terms and Acronyms You Should Know
MDR, EDR, NGAV, SIEM: security acronyms are everywhere and they don't always mean what you think. Huntress translates 16 of the most common terms to help you navigate the conversation with confidence.
Hot Takes and Cyber Predictions for 2022
Huntress founders Kyle, Chris, and John went on record with their cyber predictions for 2022 and didn't hold back. Here are the hot takes, the actual predictions, and how things played out.
Is There a Right Way to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication?
2FA is being turned on everywhere now, but there's still a right and a wrong way to configure it. Huntress looks at which authentication methods actually hold up when attackers have valid credentials.
Top Tips and Takeaways from hack_it 2021.2
Huntress' third hack_it went deep on dark web tours, macro-enabled malware, and hacker tradecraft defenders don't usually see. Here are the top tips and takeaways from hack_it 2021.2.