Petra Security vs
Huntress ITDR
Petra rebuilt detection from the ground up to fill the gap between how attackers operate today and what traditional tools are able to catch. Our behavioral-based approach to detection means we catch more attacks, faster, and with fewer false positives than any other provider.
7
Live attackers discovered by Petra, missed by Huntress ITDR
32.9 days
Average time Huntress ITDR caught attacks late
92.6 days
Average time live attackers lurked undetected by Huntress
51 sec
New mean time to respond with Petra
Switched from Huntress
How Petra stopped 7 attackers that Huntress ITDR missed.
“We'd thought attacks were being caught fast, but we had a rude awakening. Now we know what fast really looks like.”
David Xiong — CTO, M-Cubed Technologies
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Capability
Huntress ITDR
Detection
Detection approach
Behavioral ITDR (all M365 activity)
Location-based ITDR (logins, inbox rules, SharePoint)
Detects known-bad IPs in login logs
Attacker intent analysis in Exchange & SharePoint
Detects residential proxies
Dynamic tuning for per-client VPN usage
Catches credentials blocked by MFA or Conditional Access
No manual tuning needed
Moderate (travel allowlists, VPN whitelists)
24/7 US-based SOC
Remediation
Disables account & revokes sessions
Removes malicious inbox rules & forwarding
Reset password in the portal
Fleet-wide phishing email retraction
Reverses attacker activity in SharePoint
Reverses malicious MFA & device registrations
Forensics
Finds root-cause phishing email
Shows IP address of attacker sign-in
Complete attacker timeline across M365
Generates client-ready PDF
Logs & Data Retention
M365 SIEM included with ITDR
Separate product
Log retention & search window
12 months searchable
1 mo. hot / 12 mo. cold
Reporting & Sales Enablement
Targeting analytics per client
Pre-sales incident response report
Anonymized incident library for sales
Platform Coverage
M365
Google Workspace
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