Minutes Matter: Huntress Managed SIEM Makes Them Count (Here’s How)

Interest in security information and event management (SIEM) has increased over the years because it can do three things that IT and security teams desperately need:

Store diverse datasets
Expose nuanced, risky behaviors
Enable faster response

The benefit? It opens the door to spot and neutralize threats earlier in the attack chain. And because of its log retention, it also helps businesses meet their compliance obligations.

But there’s a big problem. Just like you have to pass “Go” in Monopoly to collect $200, organizations only experience these benefits if they can get past the big SIEM gatekeepers: high price tags and resource demands that overwhelm even the most dedicated teams.

The reality is traditional SIEMs were built for well-resourced teams who can customize rules and sift through noisy logs to spot the real threats. Most of the time, SIEM creates a giant data lake you’ll end up drowning in.

Most SIEMs are built for orgs with big budgets and in-house expertise

We didn’t like it. So we changed it.

Late last year, we announced Early Availability of Huntress Managed SIEM, which was designed to make SIEM accessible to all businesses. We did this by:

Dropping noisy logs through our proprietary Smart Filtering technology
Making costs predictable with an industry-disruptive pricing model
Performing 24/7 investigation and response on behalf of customers through our expert human-led Security Operations Center (SOC).

Overview of Huntress Managed SIEM

What’s new with Huntress Managed SIEM?

Since that Early Availability launch six months ago, things have only accelerated. With the recent shift to General Availability, our development has been running full speed ahead. And we’re nowhere near slowing down.

Here are some of the exciting updates and features we’ve added recently:

Enhanced log ingestion with 20+ new integrations across sources like firewalls, password managers, and identity platforms, including Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Keeper Security, Sophos, LastPass, Duo, and more.
24/7 detection and response for specific tradecraft. For example, our expert SOC team now looks for and neutralizes effective (but usually noisy!) threats like RDP brute force attempts.
Expanded detection rules and faster investigation tools. This includes rapid data rehydration and improved search capabilities that enable our SOC to accelerate threat resolution.
Extended data retention up to seven years to help organizations meet compliance requirements for mandates like PCI-DSS, CMMC, and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight.
Industry-disruptive pricing model that makes costs predictable, thanks to our ability to store only the data truly needed for effective threat hunting, investigation, and compliance.

With these additions and optimizations, Managed SIEM has hit its stride. Nearly 1,000 customers and partners now rely on the platform to enhance both their security posture and compliance efforts.

And we’ve got some stories to tell.

Making every minute count: Managed SIEM SOC stories

Hunting down a successful VPN brute force attack

Recently, our expert SOC identified a malicious true positive for VPN compromise through its hunting efforts. By neutralizing the attack at the VPN stage, we ensured the attacker couldn’t get any further and stopped them in the earliest stages of their intrusion.

This is the benefit of having a human-managed solution. Our SOC was hunting for our customers, not relying on AI to do the job.

Huntress SOC report on VPN brute force attack

Proving value in under 15 hours

Here’s another story that proves how Huntress delivered value before most SIEMs would be up and running. Managed SIEM started ingesting data for a customer on March 4, 2025 at 18:01:53 UTC.

By March 5 at 08:30:46 UTC, the SOC had already hunted a threat and delivered an incident report. In this case, a company had been compromised via their exposed RDP from some really nasty public IPv4s.

This means Huntress delivered fast security value just 14 hours and 28 minutes after the company got started with our solution.

Huntress SOC delivers an incident report of a compromised device

To stop threats faster, every EDR needs a SIEM

Over a weekend, we worked on an intrusion where our partner did not have Managed SIEM. This is a shame, because if they did, we could’ve caught and neutralized the threat much earlier in the attack chain. That’s just the nature of SIEM versus EDR.

In this case, Managed SIEM would’ve given the Huntress SOC a 19-hour head start over the threat actor, compared to when EDR detected the threat. That extra time can stop credential theft and business downtime in its tracks.