Managed Security

Threat Hunting

Hypothesis-driven hunts surfacing threats that evade automated tooling.

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What it is

Hunting assumes the alert never fired. Rather than waiting for a detection, we form hypotheses about how an attacker would operate in your environment and go looking for the evidence — the persistence, the beacon, the credential reuse that has been sitting in your logs unqueried.

How we do it

  1. 1

    Hypothesis development

    We start from specific, testable propositions grounded in ATT&CK techniques relevant to your sector and stack.

  2. 2

    Data sufficiency check

    Whether your telemetry could evidence the hypothesis at all — a gap here is itself a finding worth having.

  3. 3

    Hunting execution

    Queries across endpoint, network, identity and cloud telemetry looking for the technique rather than a signature.

  4. 4

    Anomaly investigation

    Each lead run down to a conclusion: benign, misconfiguration, or genuinely malicious.

  5. 5

    Detection handoff

    Anything found becomes a permanent detection rule so the same technique alerts automatically next time.

  6. 6

    Coverage reporting

    Which techniques were hunted, what was found, and where telemetry gaps blocked the hunt.

What's included

  • Hypothesis-led hunting, not alert review
  • ATT&CK technique coverage per hunt cycle
  • Endpoint, network, identity and cloud telemetry
  • Telemetry gap identification
  • New detections written from what is found
  • Documented hunt outcomes either way

Who needs it

  • Organisations with monitoring in place wanting assurance it is sufficient
  • Teams with reason to suspect undetected activity
  • Businesses in sectors under active targeting

Deliverables

  • Hunt report per hypothesis, including negative results
  • New detection rules ready to deploy
  • Telemetry gap analysis
  • ATT&CK coverage heat map

Compliance relevance

NIST CSFISO 27001SOC 2

Frequently asked questions

That is a legitimate and useful result, provided the telemetry was sufficient to have found something. The report says which techniques were genuinely ruled out and which could not be, and the second list is often the more valuable one.
A SOC responds to what the tooling raises. Hunting deliberately looks for what the tooling would not raise. They are complementary, and the hunt usually improves the SOC by producing new detections.
Quarterly cycles work for most organisations, with additional hunts triggered by relevant threat intelligence or a suspicious event.
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