Huntress Adds Automatic Remediation for Low-Severity Incidents

Summary

Huntress says its Auto-Remediation feature can automatically address low-severity threats such as PUPs and malware artifacts after SOC review, with customers opting in to prior approval. The company reports faster incident resolution among users.

Key points

Customers can opt in to pre-approve remediation for incidents meeting Huntress’s low-severity criteria.
Huntress says its 24/7 SOC still reviews incidents and sends customers a full incident report.
The feature targets threats such as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) and malware artifacts, remediating them once identified.
Huntress reports that average incident resolution time among partners using Auto-Remediation fell from 10 days to 19 hours; these are vendor-reported results.
The company says low-severity incidents account for over 60% of its incident reports. This feature announcement does not provide independent validation of its performance claims.

Article Details

Event Type: Huntress introduced Auto-Remediation for low-severity incidents, allowing prior approval for automatic remediation of identified PUPs and malware artifacts.
Impact: The feature removes the need for customer approval at the time of each qualifying incident while preserving SOC review and incident reporting. Huntress reports that average incident resolution time fell from 10 days to 19 hours among users of Auto-Remediation, a 92.5% reduction; these are company-reported results.

People

James O’LearyAuthor of the article announcing Huntress Auto-Remediation.

Vendors

HuntressWith Auto-Remediations, Huntress can automatically remediate low-severity threats like potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) or malware artifacts as soon as they are identified by our SOC.

Products

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