Huntress vs. Augmentt

1. Fully Managed From Day One. No Upgrades Required

Augmentt does not market a managed detection and response service. There is no SOC to escalate to, no analyst team managing the hardening framework, and no managed tier to purchase. The MSP's team configures policies, responds to alerts, investigates suspicious activity, and handles remediation. Huntress Managed ISPM is managed by Huntress, using SOC insights. We define the framework, run policies in Learning Mode to collect sign-in data, analyze potential user impact, and activate controls when safe or escalate with guidance when risks are identified. This helps organizations confidently roll out without fear of negative user impact. Managed Deployments help organizations know where to start by automatically deploying low-impact and no-impact settings over a scheduled period. When drift occurs, Huntress automatically remediates it within minutes. Managed ITDR extends this to detection and response. The Huntress SOC investigates identity threats such as token theft, rogue OAuth apps, session hijacking, malicious inbox rules, and business email compromise (BEC). These are post-MFA identity attacks that occur after an attacker has obtained valid credentials. The SOC investigates and contains these threats with a 3-minute mean time to respond on confirmed incidents, 24/7.

2. Detection and Response for Post-MFA Identity Attacks

Augmentt's Secure Autopilot provides security baselines, Conditional Access management, drift detection and correction, and rules-based blocking of risky sign-ins. This is effective posture hardening. Current Augmentt materials and competitive research (as of June 2026) do not indicate coverage of post-MFA identity threats such as token theft, session hijacking, or rogue OAuth consent. Huntress Managed ITDR detects these post-MFA identity attacks in real time: stolen session tokens, impossible travel with valid credentials, rogue OAuth applications that bypass Conditional Access, business email compromise forwarding rules, and session hijacking. The Huntress SOC then investigates and contains: revoking compromised tokens, blocking malicious OAuth apps, removing forwarding rules, and terminating hijacked sessions. Posture hardening reduces the attack surface. Detection and response address threats that bypass hardening. Both are necessary. Augmentt provides the first; Huntress provides both. For organizations that need visibility and response for identity attacks that occur after authentication, this represents a coverage gap in Augmentt's current offering.

3. Continuous Drift Enforcement Within Minutes

Augmentt detects and corrects drift through scans or scheduled checks, typically aligned to daily cadences. This is consistent with many legacy posture management tools. Microsoft's own threat intelligence data indicates a median time of 48 minutes from initial intrusion to lateral movement within an environment. Huntress Managed ISPM enforces continuously within minutes. When an administrator (or an attacker with administrative access) disables MFA, modifies a Conditional Access policy, or changes guest permissions, Huntress detects and corrects the change before it can be exploited. After three repeated changes to the same control, Huntress escalates to the admin with context to address, providing visibility when someone is attempting to override policy or when an attacker is probing boundaries. The operational difference: scheduled tools report drift after it has occurred and provide remediation on the next scan cycle. Continuous enforcement corrects drift while the session that made the change is still active, then provides context about what was changed and why it was reverted.

4. SOC Triage Reduces Alert Noise

Augmentt alerts and remediation actions can still require review and operational ownership by the MSP. Huntress Managed ITDR operates with a sub-5% false positive rate because the SOC triages alerts before escalation. Anomalies are investigated, correlated with other signals, and confirmed as threats before creating tickets. The alerts that reach the MSP have already been analyzed by a Huntress analyst and represent confirmed or high-confidence incidents requiring action, not raw detections requiring investigation. The labor difference is measurable in ticket volume and time spent investigating alerts. For MSPs managing dozens or hundreds of tenants, the difference in weekly alert volume compounds quickly.

5. Unified SOC Across Identity and Endpoint

For organizations already running or purchasing Huntress Managed EDR or Managed ITDR, Managed ISPM reuses the same tenant integration. No additional onboarding, no duplicate agents. One Huntress analyst team correlates identity posture, identity threats, and endpoint threats in a unified timeline. When an endpoint alert and an identity alert occur within minutes of each other, the SOC views them as a single incident with correlated context, not as separate tickets from separate vendors. The results? When an endpoint is hit with infostealer-style activity, Huntress maps the compromised machine to the cloud identity that’s logged in and takes action by disabling the identity and revoking active sessions. Augmentt operates as a standalone platform. It does not integrate with endpoint detection systems or correlate identity alerts with endpoint telemetry. The MSP's team is responsible for identifying connections between identity and endpoint activity across separate dashboards and vendor interfaces. For complex attacks that span identity and endpoint, this creates investigation overhead and increases the risk that related alerts are not connected in time.