Huntress Named Best SOC Team of the Year in the Inaugural 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards

The Huntress SOC is made up of elite security professionals who could take their talent almost anywhere, but choose to dedicate their careers to protecting the businesses that are too often overlooked. Their work does not just strengthen individual customer environments; it helps raise the security threshold globally by being leaders in the broader community, providing trusted insight into what attackers are doing and how defenders can respond.

Many Huntress customers are organizations that would never realistically be able to hire or retain a large in-house SOC team of top talent on their own. Huntress was built around the idea that businesses of all sizes should have access to enterprise-grade security expertise, threat hunting, and incident response without the cost and operational burden traditionally associated with mature security operations programs. At the center of the Huntress SOC are some of the top security professionals in the world, people who provide 24/7 protection and have dedicated their careers to helping businesses that are too often overlooked get the protection they deserve, at a fraction of the cost. Multiple members of the Huntress SOC have been recognized as finalists or winners of the SANS Difference Makers Awards for outstanding security achievements and meaningful contributions to the InfoSec community.

What also sets the Huntress SOC team apart is its role beyond individual customer environments. Because the team is constantly monitoring, investigating, and responding to real-world threats across a 250,000+ customer base, 12 million identities, and 5 million endpoints, the Huntress SOC team is often among the first to identify emerging attack patterns, help mitigate active incidents, and share guidance that benefits not only customers but the broader security community. They were among the first to spot the signs of major attacks and exploitation, such as the Axios npm, React2Shell, and SolarWinds Web Help Desk.

The team behind the Huntress SOC is not just responding to alerts. They are mission-driven defenders helping businesses stand stronger against threats they could never face alone. By bringing elite security expertise to the organizations that need it most, they are closing the gap between who attackers target and who has access to meaningful defense, while helping raise the standard for how the entire security community detects, responds to, and learns from threats as they unfold.