CYFLARE VS. HUNTRESS
Why MSPs move from Huntress to Cyflare when their security practice grows
Huntress is a strong detection layer for SMBs. If you need a security operations system that responds within 8.3 minutes on critical cases and builds a compliance-ready evidence trail, that’s a different conversation.
8.3 min
MTTR on critical cases
<1%
False positive rate
400+
Security integrations
670+
Detections built on pre-built playbooks
LET'S BE STRAIGHT
Huntress is a good tool. It's not a security operations system.
Huntress built something MSPs genuinely trust: a lightweight agent, human-reviewed alerts, and clean remediation instructions your tier-one tech can follow. For an MSP that wants a simple detection layer on top of an AV, it works.
The gap shows up when the conversation gets harder. A client asks for a compliance report. A breach happens at 2 a.m. and the question is who’s taking the call. A partner tries to build a security practice that scales without adding headcount for every new client.
Huntress doesn’t have answers for those problems. Cyflare does.
HOW THEY COMPARE
Five areas that separate a detection tool from a security operations platform
Response model
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
Human-reviewed alerts flag likely threats and hand your team the remediation steps. | A 24/7 SOC investigates and responds directly, 8.3 minutes on critical cases. |
Detection depth
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
EDR, ITDR, and SIEM run as separate products, each built and tuned on its own. | 670+ detections across curated playbooks, maintained as one connected system. |
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
Detection, identity, and posture sold and run separately. MSPs package the bundle themselves. | Individual SKUs, but every one runs through Cyflare ONE, a single operational view. |
Platform consolidation
Coverage model
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
Centers on identity and endpoint, visibility elsewhere varies by what’s connected. | 400+ integrations, tool-agnostic by design, ingests from what you already run. |
Compliance evidence
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
Per-seat pricing across modules adds a line item every time a client’s needs grow. | CMMC Level 2 certified, 110/110 score. Every response carries a built-in audit trail. |
Partner economics
| Huntress | Cyflare |
|---|---|
Per-module pricing that compounds every time you add a product. | 40%+ partner margins in one relationship, no added tax as the practice grows. |
NOT JUST MANAGED, CYFLARE
Why the math favors Cyflare specifically
<1%
Alerts your team can trust
False positive rate (0.5% FP, YTD 2026 average). What fires is a real threat, not noise for an analyst to sort through.
91.3%
Signal, not noise
Noise reduction from raw ingestion to real incidents, so analyst time goes to actual threats, not alert volume.
670+
Coverage that's already built
Detections are mapped to roughly 450 curated response playbooks, so incidents get a tested response, not an improvised one.
$0
Liability that doesn't land on you
Breach Response Retainer, backed by the Beckage Firm. A legally guided response is in place before you need it, not after.
THE PART THAT GETS UNDERESTIMATED
Why "just hire someone" doesn't get you real 24/7 coverage
True around-the-clock coverage means someone watching the queue for all 8,760 hours in a year. One analyst can’t do that alone. Once you account for shift rotations, PTO, and the training time that pulls people off the floor, covering a single seat continuously takes real redundancy, not one hire.
For an MSP, that number doesn’t get smaller as you take on more clients. It holds whether you’re covering ten environments or four hundred.
DO THE MATH
Run the numbers for your own book of business
Enter your own figures. This uses $1.3M in annual SOC staffing costs as the baseline, not a Cyflare price quote.
Run the numbers for your book of business
Enter your own figures. This uses $1.3M in annual SOC staffing costs as the baseline, not a Cyflare price quote.
Where does the $1.3M baseline come from?
This is salary only, before benefits, overhead, SIEM, EDR/XDR, or case management tooling, all of which push the real number higher. Both figures come from independent, vendor-neutral research, not a security vendor's own estimate. Staffing figure: SANS, 2025 SOC Survey. Salary figure: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, median annual wage for Information Security Analysts, May 2025 (most recent OEWS release, published 2026).
Enter a value in both fields to calculate your numbers.
Baseline: $1.3M in annual salary alone to staff an in-house SOC to industry standard. See "Where does the $1.3M baseline come from?" above for the full breakdown and sources. This is a directional estimate based on the figures you enter, not a quote.
COMMON QUESTIONS
What MSPs ask before they build the ROI slide
How do you calculate cybersecurity ROI for MSPs?
Start with what you're avoiding, not what you're spending. Add up the cost of a breach you didn't have, the SOC headcount you didn't hire, and the clients you didn't lose because your security story held up in a sales conversation. Cyflare gives you the numbers for all three so you're not guessing.
What counts as "cost avoided" in security ROI calculation?
Three things carry the most weight: breach costs (averaging $4.44M globally, $10.22M in the US), the annual cost of staffing an internal SOC (upwards of $1.3M in salary alone), and the revenue at risk from a client walking after a bad incident or a failed audit.
Is it cheaper to build an in-house SOC or buy managed SOC services?
For almost every MSP, buying wins, and not by a small margin. A minimally staffed SOC runs about $1.3M a year in salary alone, before tools, benefits, or the 24/7 coverage math actually requires. You're also not scaling that cost per client. Managed SOC services spread that same coverage across your whole book, so the cost per client drops as you grow instead of climbing with headcount.
How fast can we start showing clients ROI?
Most partners can put real numbers in front of a client inside the first billing cycle. Onboarding is standardized, so you're not waiting on a custom build before you have something to show.
Does this replace the tools we already have in place?
No, and it's not supposed to. Cyflare runs on top of what you've already got. The ROI isn't "rip and replace," it's turning the tools you're already paying for into a coordinated system instead of a pile of alerts nobody has time to chase.
How does this show up in a QBR or renewal conversation?
As the answer to "what am I actually paying for." Instead of a vague security line item, you walk in with a specific number: what a breach would have cost, what an in-house SOC would have cost, and what they got instead. That's a renewal conversation, not a discount negotiation.
The cost of doing nothing is still a cost.
Every quarter a client goes without a real security program, the $1.3M-a-year number gets closer to being their problem instead of a hypothetical. Bring them the math instead of the pitch.
