Huntress Earns Top Spot in Identity Threat Detection and Response at CRN's Annual Report Card
Huntress claimed first place in the Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) category at CRN's Annual Report Card (ARC) — a distinction that comes straight from the MSP community. Huntress led across graded dimensions, including product quality, technical innovation, partner support, and ease of doing business. Huntress Managed EDR separately distinguished itself by outscoring all other vendors in the Product Innovation subcategory across the entire ARC program.
What makes this recognition meaningful: it was cast by the MSPs and solution providers who put Huntress to work every day on behalf of their customers.
Recognition at a glance
Award: ITDR — Identity Category Winner; Managed EDR — Top Score in Product Innovation Subcategory
Program: CRN 2025 Annual Report Card (ARC)
Date Announced: August 17th, 2025
Presented by: CRN, a brand of The Channel Company
Official listing: CRN 2025 Annual Report Card – Identity
About the CRN Annual Report Card
Now in its 40th year, the CRN ARC stands apart from typical analyst-driven awards.
Rather than relying on expert panels, it draws on direct input from thousands of North American solution providers surveyed over an eight-week window. Vendors are scored across four dimensions: product innovation, support, partnership, and managed and cloud services. The result is one of the most grounded assessments in the industry, providing a direct read on which vendors are actually delivering for their channel partners.
Winning the ITDR category reflects the collective judgment of real MSP practitioners who evaluate these tools in production environments every day.
Why identity security can't wait
Attackers have shifted their focus. As endpoint defenses have matured, threat actors have turned to credentials, active sessions, and cloud identities as their primary entry points. Huntress ITDR research shows that more than half of organizations were targeted by business email compromise over the past year. Identity protection is non-negotiable.
Huntress Managed ITDR watches over Microsoft 365 environments around the clock, detecting and neutralizing threats like session hijacking, credential theft, and BEC attempts. Operated by AI-assisted analysts in the Huntress 24/7 SOC, the solution currently covers 11+ million identities — maintaining a false positive rate below 5% and a three-minute mean time to resolution.
What sets Huntress apart
What makes Huntress one of the most effective managed cybersecurity companies for businesses of all sizes comes down to a few things that are genuinely difficult to replicate:
A fully managed, 24/7 AI-Centric SOC — not just automated alerting, but real analysts who own every verdict and take action on every threat.
A platform purpose-built for organizations without large internal security teams, delivering enterprise-grade managed security services at a price point and complexity level that actually fits.
Threat intelligence drawn from 5M+ endpoints and 11M+ identities, meaning the platform learns from real-world attacks across hundreds of thousands of businesses — and applies that knowledge to protect every customer.
A track record of being first to respond to major industry incidents, sharing actionable advisories and tradecraft analysis openly with the broader security community.
A full-platform approach that covers endpoint, identity, SIEM, security awareness training, and security posture management under a single, unified subscription — no separate SOC contracts, no hidden costs.
What our partners say
"Huntress ITDR is by far the best identity threat detection and response product on the market. As identities become the new endpoint for threat actors, we've had to pivot quickly to ensure our customers' identities are protected. What we love most is that we don't get any noise from false positives, so things are pretty much silent unless stuff is really going down." — Jason Caine, Chief Engineer, CCP Technologies
“When Huntress calls, we answer because we know that’s the call that matters. We don’t have the luxury of having team members comb through logs and events all day. We need to be able to focus our attention on other priorities, and Huntress enables us to do that.” — Edward Griffin, Partner, Intelligent Technical Solutions
About the Huntress Agentic Security Platform
Huntress is a cybersecurity company built for the businesses and IT teams that enterprise vendors have historically overlooked — small and mid-sized businesses, in-house IT departments, and the Managed Service Providers that support them. The Huntress Agentic Security Platform delivers enterprise-grade managed security services accessible to organizations of every size, covering endpoints, identities, and employees under one roof.
The platform addresses the threats that matter most: ransomware, phishing, business email compromise, identity-based attacks, credential theft, session hijacking, and the persistent footholds that traditional antivirus routinely misses — all backed by a 24/7 AI-Centric SOC where real analysts own every verdict and every response.
5M+ endpoints protected with Huntress Managed EDR across Windows, macOS, and Linux
11M+ identities protected across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with Huntress Managed ITDR
242k+ businesses protected across the Huntress Agentic Security Platform
970k+ learners protected through Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training
98.8% CSAT, reflecting long-term trust in our 24/7 SOC
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