Why FutureSafe Made Petra Its Front Line for M365 BEC Protection
- 8+ days
- Of attacker access prior to deploying Petra
- Top 2
- SOCs Jason Whitehurst rates as the best he has ever worked with
“Petra is a generation ahead of anybody else in M365 security. The machine learning, the discovery, and how the data is presented is what I expect other platforms to have in the next generation. You guys are already there.”
FutureSafe is a managed security services partner for MSPs, working behind the scenes to deliver white-glove SecOps, escalation, and incident response. Over 300 MSPs across the US, Canada, and Australia run their cybersecurity offering through FutureSafe Safeguard.
The Stack
FutureSafe was already running a strong stack, then a partner brought Petra to the table.
FutureSafe has spent years vetting the cybersecurity tools they put in front of MSPs. They've partnered with Blackpoint since 2024 and rolled out Blackpoint Cloud Response early. “We were using Blackpoint, Blackpoint Cloud Response, and we felt pretty good with what we were getting,” says Jason. “And as often happens, one of my clients came to me and said, ‘you gotta look at this platform.’”
Their initial Petra Scan surfaced something interesting: a compromise that Petra had caught in the partner's environment that Blackpoint Cloud Response had missed. FutureSafe's typical vendor evaluation runs three months. Petra got fast-tracked.
We found all that forensic detail from that compromise that Blackpoint missed. For me, that was a buy-it-now epiphany.
The Differentiator
What closed the deal is how Petra surfaces the full story around the incident.
Jason's clients — MSPs themselves — need something they can hand to a non-security customer and walk them through. “The differentiation for us was how quickly you guys picked things up, and how you laid out the storyline.”
Petra built the storyline in a way that nobody else has ever done. In a way that we could immediately, quickly, and intuitively understand what you discovered, what you did, and why you did it. Nobody else I've ever used has gotten close.
Petra Performance
Since adopting Petra, FutureSafe has consistently seen Petra catch attacks Blackpoint Cloud Response missed.
The original compromise wasn't a one-off. Jason says they've continued to see Petra surface attacks Blackpoint Cloud Response didn't catch — and surface them faster. He even sent the original missed-compromise case back to Blackpoint.
We have a very good relationship with Blackpoint. I sent them the first case they missed and they came back and said, 'yeah, we missed it, and Petra's done a great job.' Those were Blackpoint's exact words.
The Takeaway
Petra is the front end for BEC, the #1 attack vector hitting FutureSafe's MSP partners.
All the threats are moving to BEC. I tell people: change your budget spend. Move your spend to BEC protection. That's where attacks are happening.
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