Huntress vs. ThreatLocker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Huntress
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Huntress is a security platform that surfaces hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The platform helps IT resellers protect their customers from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.N/A
ThreatLocker
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
ThreatLocker Inc. is a security platform used to stop misuse and vulnerable software as well as control application elevation, storage and network traffic.N/A
Pricing
HuntressThreatLocker
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HuntressThreatLocker
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
HuntressThreatLocker
Considered Both Products
Huntress
Chose Huntress
Carbon Black was much more expensive and had a bit more buy-in than we were able to sell companies on. The portal was not as simplified. The services are similar in execution, and we did not find Carbon Black lacking, but Huntress is easy to use, easy to deploy, and a better …
Chose Huntress
To be honest, I haven't run into anything like Huntress. It's not a threat protection platform and it doesn't simply look for configuration changes. It is a unique product that starts with searching for footholds and grew into educating the user base on what cybersecurity is …
Chose Huntress
This is a difficult question because Huntress really doesn't compete with other products per se. There are EDR products that tout the same capabilities as Huntress, so if you were to compare just those features, you would still see Huntress as a winner because they are …
Chose Huntress
Pre-EDR Huntress is really unique in what it does. It is hard to directly compare that against anything since it is changed based
Chose Huntress
Huntress identified fileless malware that was not detected by ESET Antivirus and a KMS activation bypass that was installed on a server.
Chose Huntress
Huntress may not be a complete SOC such as Blackpoint, but the level of protection is close. Huntress provides a set of human eyes always hunting for persistent threats on your endpoints. Huntress also seems less noisy with no false positives, so no time is wasted reviewing …
Chose Huntress
Firstly from a business model, [VMware] Carbon Black [Cloud Managed Detection] was not outfitted for the MSP where Huntress is very MSP-friendly from an affordably easy point to entry to value for money licensing. Carbon Black TS is not bad in anyway, well, that we found, but …
Chose Huntress
Artic Wolf offers a superior service with dedicated resources and personalized service. This is offered at a premium price and we decided not to invest very heavily in this type of service yet. We don't need a dedicated team with intimate knowledge of our business at this time. …
Chose Huntress
Easier to add and remove the agent from PCs. In our experience, others are horrendous to try to remove when a customer leaves. The UI is superior through its simplicity. For us, deployment was also much easier than BlackPoint or SentinelOne. Webroot was easy to install, but …
Chose Huntress
Not only is Huntress a better product from a usability standpoint, its also lighter on system resources and support is second to none
Chose Huntress
Basically we went with Huntress because of simplicity and reputation. We still use ESET for AV but felt their EDR product was reactionary to Huntress existing, rather than a particularly well thought out product.
In my experience, Sophos is just too buggy in everything they do. …
Chose Huntress
Huntress understands the needs of their partners in regards to need a solid solution, actionable items when threats hit, a SOC team that is able to intelligently respond, while also maintaining reasonable costs. Huntress checked all the boxes that we needed from competing …
ThreatLocker
Chose ThreatLocker
Prior to buying ThreatLocker, we evaluated Tanium's whitelisting module. We felt that ThreatLocker's method of baselining existing applications and comparing them to known IoC's made for an easier implementation. To be fair, this was solely based on demonstrations by each …
Chose ThreatLocker
The pricing is what matters the most on this. We went with ThreatLocker mostly because of their pricing and as time has gone on, we have completely fallen in love with the tool. The vendor support is miles better than all other tools I have used and being able to freely …
Chose ThreatLocker
I have tried WhiteCloud Security, Microsoft Application Whitelisting (AppLocker), and MalwareByte.

WhiteCloud Security is too complicated to use and setup.
Chose ThreatLocker
I honestly have not seen many other programs like Threatlocker so I do not have any to compare to. Auto-Elevate may be the closest, however I did not evaluate them as part of my decision. Threatlocker does do a great job at onboarding which made deploying, setting up, and …
Chose ThreatLocker
We chose Threatlocker because it is unique in that it specializes in a specific area, whereas other products offer a broader range of capabilities. It blocks software from running and provides us with all the necessary information for this purpose in an easy-to-use graphical …
Features
HuntressThreatLocker
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
Huntress
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Ratings
ThreatLocker
8.8
Ratings
3% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Centralized Management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Vulnerability Management00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Malware Detection00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
HuntressThreatLocker
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.2
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
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Usability
9.0
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8.2
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Availability
-
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10.0
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Performance
-
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10.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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In-Person Training
-
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10.0
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Online Training
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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Product Scalability
-
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10.0
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Vendor post-sale
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10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
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User Testimonials
HuntressThreatLocker
Likelihood to Recommend
A great product that highlights any and all persistent footholds on the network and does a great job on breach monitoring. The support staff are great, efficient, and are able to reach out when there is an issue. Most problems are cleared out/mitigated before we even know about them. A great product to add to your security stack.
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If you want to know what is running in your environment and what it is trying to access, you should be able to take preemptive measures to prevent and protect yourself from it. ThreatLocker is the system for you! It will replace almost any EDR requirement, although I recommend you partner it with Windows Defender.
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Pros
  • Using the latest industry knowledge of threats that have been ongoing, but not previously known and projecting it back in time against their installed endpoints to identify machines that are vulnerable or breached and when it these events occurred
  • Very quiet. If they alert, it is a thing.
  • Very good at remediation.
  • They communicate extremely well when it matters.
  • While there are the most extensive products more often than not they are the first to alert us to a threat.
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  • Application whitelisting.
  • Unified audits of everything network & application.
  • Clean and concise portal to manage the same.
  • Dynamic ability to allow users to request more apps.
  • Security and a sense of complete control.
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Cons
  • Now that they have EDR capability, they need to fully participate in MITRE testing for direct comparison against other EDR products.
  • Now that they are going into Managed Antivirus and EDR with isolation capabilities they need to update their SLA comparative to other vendors
  • Support for non-Windows OSes for consistency in a network
  • It would be nice to seed canary files in custom shares on servers.
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  • Unused polices are nearly impossible to navigate due to no sorts or filtering options.
  • Redundant polices are impossible to determine.
  • Cannot view literally all policies for one organization in one view/list. Instead of have to check policies per device, group, or all machines.
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Likelihood to Renew
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ThreaLocker has done its job and has prevented malware from executing. It has stopped an encryption process once already. It has kept a user from going to a bad website. He tried twice and was wondering why he was getting an error message from ThreatLocker and ESET both.
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Usability
We dropped SentinelOne in favor of Huntress because the UI was much more simplistic for the tier 1 techs to maintain. It beats the old web design model of three clicks to where you want to go. It is very intuitive. No one needs training to figure out how to navigate its console.
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The console is very user friendly and is frequently updated based on user requests. It is well laid out and many of the areas allow the ability to pivot from one area to another without having navigate the entire menu tree. Much of what you do is to query activities on a given PC and the application allows you to save frequently run queries.
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Reliability and Availability
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There is rarely ever an outage. I have seen slowness in ThreatLocker service. But that is very rare too!
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Performance
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ThreatLocker is always available. The admin's console loads very fast and report runs almost instantly. It does not interfere with operating system.
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Support Rating
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You can email, call or do online chat with tech support. I love their online chat. They are quick and friendly. Also, if you need to show them something, you can give the chat technician permission from your Chat box to allow the tech access to your computer. They also can pull out your admin console on their side. They can look at your "Unified Audit" log and see the same thing that you can. They have a good KnowledgeBase that you can look for answers. They have what is called "ThreatLocker University" where you can go through tutorials and take tests.
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In-Person Training
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The owners and co-founders work with you through Zoom Meetings. They walk you through how to use and setup ThreatLocker. They also have webinars. You also can go through ThreatLocker University online training.
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Online Training
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Using ThreatLocker University online training is very easy and informative. You take online tests to see how well you learned the material. It is great!
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Implementation Rating
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ThreatLocker is a family ran business. The owners, co-founders work with you to ensure you are up and running as quickly as possible. They went to ensure your success with ThreatLocker.
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Alternatives Considered
Huntress may not be a complete SOC such as Blackpoint, but the level of protection is close. Huntress provides a set of human eyes always hunting for persistent threats on your endpoints. Huntress also seems less noisy with no false positives, so no time is wasted reviewing alerts.
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We chose Threatlocker because it is unique in that it specializes in a specific area, whereas other products offer a broader range of capabilities. It blocks software from running and provides us with all the necessary information for this purpose in an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI), which is all we need for our use case.
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Scalability
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ThreatLocker is very easy to add new ThreatLocker agents on computers and servers. It is very easy to do. You can install an agent on a computer or server in about 2 minutes or less.
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Return on Investment
  • We have been able to lower operational costs by shifting to Huntress.
  • We've been able to cut costs to our clients by utilizing Huntress over competing products.
  • In spite of inflation, we've been able to keep our managed service prices at a steady, below market rate, because of Huntress.
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  • Applications that are new to the environment can be blocked even if they are wanted. Which can cause strain on the environment if not properly tuned or prepped.
  • We have this deployed onto around 7700 endpoints at this moment with less than 0.01% of issues with the agent or its functionality being noted. It's incredibly stable and the Vendor support further helps if it does break, and they can usually fix it without 15 mins.
  • We have had this tool on customers, and it has single handedly stopped Ransomware attacks by itself when the customers previous EDR failed to catch threat actor attacks. I can remember 3 separate instances where someone did something to cause an attack and ThreatLocker brought it to a screeching halt due to the application control and built-in ringfencing it provides.
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