Huntress Doubles Down On Identity Security With Acquisition Of Inside Agent

The vendor announced the next major step of its identity protection strategy with the acquisition of Inside Agent, a startup that provides capabilities for identity security posture management.

Huntress announced Tuesday the next major step of its identity protection strategy with the acquisition of Inside Agent, a startup that provides capabilities for identity security posture management.

Terms of the acquisition deal for the company, which was founded in 2024 and is based in London, were not disclosed.

[Related: Huntress Will Need To Disrupt Itself To Protect SMBs: CEO Kyle Hanslovan]

The acquisition brings additional capabilities for protecting against identity-related threats in Microsoft 365 environments to the Huntress managed cybersecurity platform, the company said in a news release.

The vendor said it plans to roll out Huntress Identity Security Posture Management, based upon the technology from Inside Agent, which “will assess over 100 checks and balances across environments based on industry-recognized standards.”

Key capabilities include continuous monitoring for misconfigurations and excess privileges as well as for unused accounts, all of which are issues often exploited in cyberattacks, Huntress said.

Huntress has been increasingly focused on identity in recent years, including through its identity threat detection and response offering, which currently protects more than 8 million identities, according to the company.

The addition of identity security posture management will enable Huntress to make “full-spectrum identity security accessible to organizations of all sizes,” the vendor said in the release.

In a recent interview with CRN, Huntress Co-Founder and CEO Kyle Hanslovan said that while the first decade in business for Huntress has seen a massive expansion of its managed cybersecurity platform, the company expects to continue rapidly adapting even if it means disrupting its existing offerings in some cases.

Getting ahead of the ever-worsening cyberthreats faced by SMBs will likely mean disrupting the very products and playbook that built the vendor’s success, Hanslovan said.

“The current version of Huntress needs to be put out of business by the future version of Huntress,” he said.

Huntress surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue a year ago and employs more than 600, as well as working with thousands of solution and service provider partners.