Case Study: Clear Guidance Partners averts a major ransomware attack and restores operations within 30 hours with Huntress Managed EDR

Clear Guidance Partners Leverages Huntress To Save a Client From a Dangerous Ransomware Attack

Clear Guidance Partners, a Texas-based MSP, needed advanced endpoint detection beyond basic antivirus to protect its SMB clients from evolving threats. After partnering with Huntress in 2019, Clear Guidance adopted Huntress Managed EDR (and its ThreatOps service) to gain an integrated, cost-effective EDR that auto-tunes and reduces noise while providing the visibility their existing tools lacked.

Huntress’ Managed EDR and ThreatOps detected abnormal east‑west traffic and malicious scripts missed by antivirus, confirmed the ransomware incident, and used Host Isolation to block the attacker. With Huntress’ remediation guidance and forensic data, Clear Guidance purged the threat and restored client operations within 30 hours, identified stolen credentials as the entry point, and reduced false positives—saving hours (and significant cost) each week.

Clear Guidance Partners

Anthony Cabral

Chief Information Security Officers