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Threat Hunting
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Threat Hunting

Proactive, hypothesis-driven hunts for adversaries who have already evaded automated detection and are sitting quietly inside your environment.

Overview

Understanding This Service

What It Is

A proactive, hypothesis-driven hunting engagement that searches for adversaries who have already evaded your automated detection and are sitting quietly inside your environment.

Who It's For

Organizations with mature detection tooling who want assurance that nothing has slipped through, or companies in high-target industries where dwell time carries outsized risk.

When It's Needed

After deploying detection tooling that's never been stress-tested, following industry-specific threat intelligence about active campaigns, or as a recurring layer of assurance alongside existing monitoring.

Common Challenges

Why Clients Request This Service

Undetected Dwell Time

Detection Tooling Blind Spots

Targeted Industry Threats

Over-Reliance on Automated Alerts

What's Included

Scope of Testing

Scope is tailored per engagement, but most hunts draw from the following.

Hypothesis Development

Hunt hypotheses built from threat intelligence relevant to your environment.

Manual Hunting

Analyst-led investigation across endpoint, network, and log data.

Indicator Validation

Confirming or ruling out suspicious activity uncovered during the hunt.

Detection Gap Identification

Surfacing blind spots in existing detection coverage.

Reporting

Findings documented with evidence, scope, and remediation guidance.

Our Approach

How We Run This Engagement

1

Planning

Hypothesis development based on relevant threat intelligence.

2

Hunting

Manual investigation across endpoint, network, and log data.

3

Validation

Confirming or ruling out suspicious findings uncovered during the hunt.

4

Reporting

Findings delivered with evidence, scope, and remediation guidance.

5

Recurring Hunts

Revisiting new hypotheses on a monthly or quarterly cadence.

Deliverables

What You Walk Away With

Hunt Findings Report

Documented results of each hunt, including confirmed and ruled-out leads.

Detection Gap Analysis

Identified blind spots in existing detection tooling and coverage.

Indicator Evidence

Supporting evidence for any confirmed malicious activity found.

Remediation Guidance

Specific, actionable fixes for any gaps or findings uncovered.

Hypothesis Log

A record of hunt hypotheses tested across engagements over time.

Recurring Summary

A rolling view of hunt coverage and findings across the retainer.

Related Frameworks

This service commonly supports requirements under:

SOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
PCI DSS
Why Our Approach

What Makes Our Testing Different

Senior-Led Engagements
Hypothesis-Driven Hunting
Fast Turnaround
Business-Focused Reporting
Faqs

Questions About Threat Hunting

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