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.

Author: Lily Lewis
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Securing Healthcare: Handling Cyber Threats with Care
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.

January 12, 2024
What Does the Future Hold for Today’s Cybersecurity Leaders?
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)?
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.

October 14, 2026
5 Phishing Email Examples and How to Spot Them
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.

October 18, 2023
SSO vs. MFA: Key Differences, Compared + Explained
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!

March 5, 2026
How To Speak To SMBs About Cybersecurity
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.

June 20, 2023
The Top 3 Cyber Challenges for Mid-Market Businesses
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.

September 16, 2024
Mid-Sized Businesses vs. The Threat Landscape 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.

March 28, 2023
How to Crush Cybercriminals with Managed Antivirus
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.

June 21, 2022
How Huntress Protects SMBs
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.

May 17, 2022
Making Sense of Alphabet Soup: 16 Security Terms and Acronyms You Should Know
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.

September 18, 2024
Hot Takes and Cyber Predictions for 2022
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.

January 18, 2022
Is There a Right Way to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication?
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.

November 30, 2021
Top Tips and Takeaways from hack_it 2021.2
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.

November 2, 2021