Huntress Acquires Level Effect EDR to Beef Up Platform

By | Managed Services News

Jan 12

Level Effect will continue to operate as its own independent business.

Huntress has acquired Level Effect EDR technology to enhance the capabilities of its platform.

Recon, Level Effect’s EDR solution, merges endpoint forensics with network traffic visibility — with no appliance required. Recon can see what’s happening to protected endpoints both internally and externally. It provides visibility and detection of attacker behavior, including payload downloads, lateral movement and more.

Broader Cybersecurity Use Cases

The acquisition will enable Huntress to expand and strengthen its detection and response capabilities; therefore, Huntress partners can capture more holistic views of endpoint security and better protect their end customers.

Huntress' Kyle Hanslovan

Huntress’ Kyle Hanslovan

“We’re thrilled to bring Level Effect’s Recon technology to Huntress,” said Kyle Hanslovan, Huntress‘ founder and CEO. “Our core telemetry today focuses primarily on persistence-enabled attacks. By integrating Recon, our platform will respond to malicious network sessions, event logs and non-persistent threats, allowing us to support broader cybersecurity use cases and defend additional attack surfaces.”

As part of the acquisition, Level Effect co-founders Greg Ake and Robert Noeth will join the Huntress team. They’ll support the initial integration and ongoing development of the Level Effect EDR software. Like the founding team at Huntress, both Ake and Noeth have strong backgrounds in the U.S. intelligence community.

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“The combination of Recon’s correlated network and endpoint visibility with Huntress’ advanced detection and response capabilities will be a game-changer for security monitoring and response,” Ake said. “We’re really excited about this acquisition and what it means for partners who are fighting to defend their technology environments and protect customers.”

While Huntress has acquired the Recon technology and related IP portfolio, Level Effect will continue to operate as its own independent business. It will provide cybertraining services to security practitioners looking to increase their knowledge.

Huntress partners will get more information regarding planned service and feature enhancements as it becomes available. Initial updates are expected in the third quarter

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