--- title: "Webinar Recap: How to Stop Cybersecurity Threats with Managed EDR – DataYard" description: "On June 17, 2026, DataYard and Huntress hosted a live webinar on managed EDR and modern cybersecurity threats. This recap covers the key takeaways, including how managed EDR works, a real-world incident resolved in 52 minutes, a Huntress platform demo, and what deployment looks like for your organization. Plus, you will get exclusive access to the webinar video." language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/cybersecurity/webinar-recap-managed-edr/" source_url: "https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/cybersecurity/webinar-recap-managed-edr/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- ## Key Takeaways - Dwell time — how long attackers stay undetected after gaining access to systems — rose from 11 to 14 days in 2026 (Google’s M-Trends 2026 report). - After a breach is discovered, remediation now takes an average of 43 days (Verizon DBIR 2026). - Antivirus catches known threats. It wasn’t built to detect behavioral anomalies, lateral movement, or credential-based attacks. - Managed EDR combines continuous endpoint monitoring with a 24/7 human SOC team that investigates and responds — not just detects. - When a threat hit one of our clients’ endpoints, DataYard and Huntress had it contained and resolved in 52 minutes. ## Why Cybersecurity Matters More Right Now The cyber threat landscape is shifting significantly. A few numbers from research shared during the webinar put this shift into context. 14 days Global median dwell time in 2026, up from 11 days (Google M-Trends 2026) 43 days Average remediation time after breach discovery, up from 32 days (Verizon DBIR 2026) $4.4M Global average cost of a data breach in 2025, up 9% year-over-year (IBM) [Google’s M-Trends 2026 Report](https://cloud.google.com/security/resources/m-trends) found that global median dwell time rose from 11 days to 14 days. Dwell time is how long a bad actor spends inside a network after gaining access before being detected. The longer that window stays open, the more damage can occur — including data exfiltration, operational disruption, and full system compromise. [Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report](https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/) found that remediation time increased from 32 days to 43 days. Add dwell time to remediation time and you’re looking at nearly two months of a cyberattack affecting your business. The global average cost of a data breach was $4.4 million in 2025, up 9% from the year before, according to [IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report](https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach). AI is accelerating the problem. The World Economic Forum identified AI-related vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cyber risk category. IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026 reported a 44% year-over-year increase in exploitation of public-facing applications and a 49% increase in active ransomware groups. Their recommendation: shift toward threat detection and response services. Here’s how attackers are using AI today: - **AI-generated phishing** — Attackers are creating personalized, grammatically clean emails in seconds using real business context and AI. The old “look for the typos” advice doesn’t hold up anymore. - **Credential and identity abuse** — Attackers are using stolen credentials combined with legitimate tools, so there’s no obvious malware signature to flag. - **Automated reconnaissance** — AI helps attackers find and exploit vulnerabilities faster and at a greater scale than manual methods ever allowed. The shift isn’t just in volume. It’s in how fast attacks move and how hard they are to detect with traditional tools. ![WEF chart showing AI vulnerabilities as the top growing cyber risk category — 87% of respondents reported an increase](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/170.avif) This figure from WEF shows the perception of increase or decrease in cyber risks. AI vulnerabilities is at the top of the increase list with 87%. ## So, What Does This Mean for Your Business? That’s a lot of stats, but taken together, these trends point to a significant shift in cybersecurity risk. Attackers are gaining access faster, staying hidden longer, and using increasingly sophisticated techniques that often bypass traditional security tools. At the same time, organizations are taking longer to fully recover once a breach occurs. For business leaders, the takeaway isn’t that cyberattacks are inevitable. It’s that prevention alone is no longer enough. Traditional security tools like antivirus remain important, but they’re designed primarily to stop known threats. Today’s attacks increasingly rely on legitimate tools, stolen credentials, and behaviors that can look normal until damage is already underway. That means organizations need the ability to quickly detect suspicious activity, investigate it, and respond before a minor incident becomes a major disruption. The question is no longer whether your environment can block every threat. It’s how quickly you can identify and contain one when it gets through. That’s where managed EDR fits into the picture. ## EDR vs. Antivirus: What’s the Difference? Antivirus is still worth having. It detects known threats using signature matching and provides an important baseline layer of protection. But it has real limits — antivirus wasn’t designed to catch unknown threats, behavioral anomalies, or credential-based attacks that use legitimate system tools. **Managed EDR is built for what antivirus misses.** EDR continuously monitors work endpoints — laptops, desktops, and servers — for suspicious behavior rather than matching against a known threat library. The “managed” part matters: instead of an alert sitting in a queue, a 24/7 SOC team investigates, contains, and helps remediate the threat. The Managed EDR process works in four stages: 1 Detect Suspicious behavior is flagged at the endpoint 2 Investigate SOC analysts review the alert and validate the threat 3 Respond The endpoint is isolated to prevent lateral spread 4 Remediate The threat is removed and the system is restored Modern attacks increasingly rely on PowerShell, Windows Management Instrumentation, and stolen credentials — tools that look legitimate right up until they don’t. That’s the gap managed EDR is built to close. [More About Managed EDR →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/managed-endpoint-detection-response/) ## A Real Incident: Contained in 52 Minutes One of our clients deployed managed EDR across all their endpoints as a proactive measure against lateral threat spread. After a few months a threat was alerted on Huntress EDR. An employee unknowingly clicked a link that activated a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool. Antivirus didn’t flag it, because it was an unknown threat operating through a legitimate tool. Here’s what happened next: 0:00 Employee clicks a malicious link; RMM tool activates silently ~0:15 EDR flags suspicious behavior at the endpoint ~5:00 Huntress SOC validates the threat is real; DataYard contacts client ~10:00 Endpoint is isolated; lateral spread is cut off ~52:00 Threat is remediated; endpoint is back online DataYard was in contact with the client throughout. We coordinated with Huntress on remediation, kept the client informed at every step, and had the system restored in under an hour. Without managed EDR, that threat could have moved across every connected system. Full environment cleanup from lateral spread can take weeks, and that’s before accounting for data loss, operational downtime, and the cost of rebuilding client trust. [Managed EDR Case Study →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/about-us/clients/managed-edr-security-incident/) ## Why DataYard Chose Huntress Huntress was founded by former NSA contractors — people whose job was breaking into systems. When they eventually asked themselves what it would take to stop someone like them, the original Huntress EDR platform was the answer. That background shapes how the product works: it’s built around the SOC team, giving detection engineers and analysts every piece of context they need when a threat appears, not just an alert to investigate blindly. On DataYard’s end, we spent months researching and vetting managed EDR providers before selecting Huntress. The deciding factors came down to alignment. Huntress approaches security the same way DataYard approaches client support: fast response, human accountability, and clear communication. A few other things made them stand out as well: - **10 million endpoints, shared threat intelligence.** Huntress runs across 10 million agents globally. When a threat actor reuses infrastructure — the same hostnames, the same devices — Huntress flags it across every environment simultaneously. What hits one client informs protection for all of them. - **Internal SOC, no contractors.** Huntress employs their own SOC analysts distributed around the world working different hours. Every alert is reviewed by a human before any action is taken — which is why their false positive rate stays low and their mean time to response is among the lowest in the industry. - **Built to catch what antivirus can’t.** Attackers typically want the same things: get in, exfiltrate data, move laterally. Huntress watches for those behaviors — including legitimate tools being used in illegitimate ways — rather than matching against known threat signatures. - **Clear reporting after every incident.** After containment, Huntress delivers a packaged incident report: what was detected, when, how, and what was done. That report is useful for cyber insurance documentation and compliance needs, not just internal review. Huntress handles detection and SOC-level response. DataYard handles your environment, your deployment, threat remediation and direct communication when something happens. We treat your business’ security like our own. ## Watch the Managed EDR Webinar Recording ![DataYard and Huntress managed EDR partnership — 24/7 SOC team monitoring and responding to endpoint threats](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Horizontal-DataYard-Webinar-The-Hub-TV-Image-169-2.avif) On June 17, 2026, DataYard and Huntress hosted a live session on stopping cybersecurity threats using managed endpoint detection and response. Mike Beagles, DataYard’s VP of IT Operations, walked through the current threat landscape and a real 52-minute incident response. Andrew Pantaleon, Technical Account Manager at Huntress, followed with a live walkthrough of the Huntress EDR platform. Watch the full recording below. The demo is the clearest way to see how managed EDR actually works. Watch the full recording on our webinar page. [Watch the Webinar Video →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/managed-edr-webinar/) ## Who Should Consider Managed EDR? Managed EDR is most valuable for organizations that have critical systems, lean IT teams, and limited capacity to monitor and respond to threats around the clock. **Manufacturing companies** Production downtime is expensive. A threat that spreads laterally across operational systems can shut down a floor. **Web agencies and digital firms** Managing client environments means a breach doesn’t just affect your business — it affects everyone downstream. **Legal and financial organizations** Sensitive client data and regulatory exposure make fast detection and response essential. **Software developers and technology firms supporting regulated industries** Security incidents can affect both application availability and client trust. **Healthcare-adjacent organizations** Compliance requirements and the sensitivity of patient data raise the stakes for any security incident. **Any organization that can’t afford extended downtime** If your systems stop, your business stops. If your IT team is already stretched thin, managed EDR provides continuous security monitoring and response without requiring you to build an internal security operations center. ## What Managed EDR Deployment Looks Like If you’re considering managed EDR, the deployment process is straightforward. - **Review your current security posture** We begin by evaluating your existing endpoint protection, monitoring capabilities, and visibility gaps. - **Deploy Huntress agents** DataYard handles deployment across your Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints with minimal disruption to users. - **Validate visibility and coverage** We confirm that endpoints are reporting correctly and that monitoring is functioning across the environment. - **Establish response workflows** DataYard and Huntress work together to ensure alerts, communication paths, and remediation procedures are clearly defined. - **Begin 24/7 monitoring and response** Once deployed, Huntress continuously monitors your endpoints while DataYard remains actively involved in communication, remediation, and ongoing security guidance. **Get a Complimentary Security & Managed EDR Consultation** If you’re not fully confident in what’s protecting your endpoints today, this is a great place to start. This free consultation includes a review of your current security posture, identification of visibility or response gaps, and honest recommendations from our team — including how quickly your organization could detect and contain a threat today. [Learn More About Managed EDR →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/managed-endpoint-detection-response/) [Schedule a Consultation →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/contact/) ## FAQ: Managed EDR Does managed EDR replace antivirus? No, and we’d recommend keeping both. Antivirus handles known threats effectively before they can enter your systems. Managed EDR catches what antivirus misses: unknown threats, behavioral anomalies, and credential-based attacks. They work better together. What endpoints does this cover? DataYard deploys Huntress on Windows, Linux, and macOS — including servers and user endpoints like laptops, desktops, and servers. We can deploy your team’s EDR protection on-site, remote, or both. Is this only for large companies? No, Huntress is also built for small to mid-size environments. Organizations with lean IT teams benefit most, because the SOC team functions as an extension of your internal capability without requiring you to hire dedicated security staff. What’s required to deploy? Deployment is low-friction. DataYard handles configuration and rollout. Most clients see minimal disruption during the process. How does this work against AI-driven attacks? Managed EDR focuses on behavior, not signatures. It’s designed to catch the kinds of attacks AI enables — fast-moving, credential-based, using legitimate tools — because it’s watching for anything that behaves abnormally, not matching against a known threat list. Do small businesses really need this? If you store client data, run business-critical applications, or would lose revenue from an extended outage, managed EDR is worth considering. The average cost of a data breach is measured in millions of dollars, while the operational impact of even a smaller incident can be significant. For most organizations, the cost of recovering from a successful attack far exceeds the cost of proactive detection and response. Managed EDR helps reduce the likelihood that a security incident becomes a business disruption. ## Ready to Strengthen Your Endpoint Security? DataYard helps organizations improve operational resilience through managed EDR, 24/7 infrastructure monitoring, endpoint protection, backup and disaster recovery, and secure cloud architecture. If you’d like to review your current security posture or explore managed EDR options, our team is happy to help. [Explore Managed EDR →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/managed-endpoint-detection-response/) [Contact Us →](https://qoxxaadhnztfjmt.onstatic.studio/contact/) ### References - [Google Cloud. M-Trends 2026: Data, Insights, and Strategies From the Frontlines.](https://cloud.google.com/security/resources/m-trends) - [IBM. Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025.](https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach) - [IBM. X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026.](https://www.ibm.com/reports/threat-intelligence) - [Verizon. 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report.](https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/) - [World Economic Forum. Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 Insight Report. January 2026.](https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026/)