2026 SC Award winner Huntress – Best Managed Detection and Response Service

Huntress is the winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service, providing 24/7 human-led threat detection and response to organizations that lack the resources to build and operate their own security operations center.

MDR services are designed to remotely detect, investigate, and mitigate threats using a combination of advanced analytics, threat intelligence, and expert oversight. Many organizations struggle with limited security headcount, complex tools that require constant tuning, and the high cost of maintaining round-the-clock monitoring. Gaps in visibility and response create opportunities for ransomware, credential theft, session hijacking, rogue OAuth abuse, and other modern attack techniques.

Huntress addresses these challenges through its Managed Security Platform, which combines purpose-built security products with a 24/7, AI-assisted SOC. The platform protects endpoints, identities, applications, and Microsoft 365 environments under a simple per-asset subscription model, with no separate SOC contract or hardware requirements. Customers can typically deploy protection in under 30 minutes, while monitoring, threat hunting, and response are handled entirely by Huntress. The company supports more than 220,000 organizations, protecting over 4.5 million endpoints and 9 million identities, with renewal rates above 90% and a 98.6% customer satisfaction score.

“Huntress delivers enterprise-grade endpoint protection to organizations with limited resources by combining powerful EDR technology with a fully managed, 24/7 human-led SOC that rapidly detects, contains, and remediates real-world attacker behaviors,” said SC Award judge Roota Almeida, CISO at Kyowa Kirin. “It’s all-inclusive model eliminates complexity and extra costs, providing expert threat hunting, continuous monitoring, and optimized configurations across Windows, macOS, and Linux for a single price. It has industry-leading ease of use, a 98.6% customer satisfaction score.”

Huntress continues to expand its managed platform with Managed SIEM capabilities, identity threat detection enhancements, and new posture management offerings planned for 2026. With weekly product updates and a fully managed delivery model, the company positions its MDR service as a way for resource-constrained teams to gain enterprise-level protection without taking on additional operational burden.