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Threat Hunting

Do not wait for alerts. Hunt the threats.

Advanced attackers operate below the threshold of automated detection. Our threat hunters proactively search your endpoint fleet for indicators of compromise, dormant implants, and attacker activity that your security tools have not flagged.

Hypothesis-Driven Hunts
MITRE ATT&CK Aligned
Assurance Reporting
UK-Based Analysts
What We Hunt For

Threats that hide. Analysts that seek.

Our threat hunters combine deep technical expertise with live threat intelligence to find what automated tools miss across your endpoint environment.

Hypothesis-Driven Hunting

Our analysts develop threat hypotheses based on your industry, threat landscape, and known attacker techniques. Each hunt is targeted and purposeful, not random searching.

Hypothesis-DrivenIndustry-SpecificMITRE ATT&CK

IOC and TTP Hunting

We hunt for specific indicators of compromise and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures across your entire endpoint fleet using live threat intelligence.

IOC HuntingTTP AnalysisThreat Intelligence

Behavioural Anomaly Analysis

Analysts review behavioural data across your endpoints looking for patterns that deviate from your baseline. Subtle anomalies that automated tools score as low risk are investigated in depth.

Behavioural AnalysisBaseline DeviationLow-Signal Threats

Persistence Mechanism Detection

We specifically hunt for persistence mechanisms that attackers use to maintain access after initial compromise. Registry modifications, scheduled tasks, and startup entries are all reviewed.

Persistence DetectionRegistry AnalysisStartup Review

Lateral Movement Investigation

Analysts trace lateral movement paths across your network, identifying accounts, credentials, and systems that may have been accessed by an attacker moving through your environment.

Lateral MovementCredential AnalysisPath Tracing

Hunt Reporting and Recommendations

Every hunt produces a detailed report covering methodology, findings, and recommendations. Confirmed threats are escalated immediately. Clean hunts provide assurance evidence.

Hunt ReportsAssurance EvidenceRecommendations
How It Works

Structured hunting. Measurable outcomes.

Every threat hunt follows a rigorous methodology from intelligence-led hypothesis development through to findings reporting and detection improvement.

01

Threat Intelligence Review

We review current threat intelligence relevant to your industry and geography. Recent attacker campaigns, new TTPs, and active threat groups inform our hunting priorities.

02

Hypothesis Development

Based on threat intelligence and your environment profile, we develop specific hunting hypotheses. Each hypothesis defines what we are looking for and why.

03

Data Collection and Analysis

We collect and analyse endpoint telemetry, logs, and behavioural data relevant to our hypotheses. Advanced queries and analytics are applied to surface relevant activity.

04

Investigation and Validation

Suspicious findings are investigated in depth to determine whether they represent genuine threats or benign activity. Context is everything in threat hunting.

05

Escalation or Clearance

Confirmed threats are escalated immediately with full context and recommended response actions. Clean hunts are documented as assurance evidence for your records.

06

Detection Improvement

Hunt findings are used to improve automated detection rules. Threats found manually today become automatically detected tomorrow, continuously raising your security baseline.

Real Results

Threats found before they caused damage.

Advanced Persistent Threat

A UK technology company suspected they had been targeted by a nation-state actor following a sector-wide advisory. Automated tools had not raised any alerts.

Threat hunt identified a dormant implant that had been present for 6 weeks. Removed before any data exfiltration occurred. Full forensic report provided.

Post-Breach Assurance

A financial services firm had experienced a phishing compromise and needed assurance that the attacker had not established persistence or moved laterally.

Comprehensive hunt across all endpoints confirmed no persistence mechanisms or lateral movement. Clean bill of health provided for board and regulator.

Compliance-Driven Hunt

A healthcare organisation needed to demonstrate proactive threat hunting as part of their ISO 27001 certification and NHS DSPT compliance programme.

Quarterly hunting programme established. Hunt reports provided as compliance evidence. ISO 27001 certification achieved.

Find Hidden Threats

Are there threats in your environment right now?

Most organisations that have been compromised do not know it for months. A targeted threat hunt gives you confidence that your environment is clean, or finds what is hiding.