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Threat Hunting

Do not wait for alerts. Hunt the threats yourself.

The average attacker dwell time in a network is over 200 days. Automated tools do not find everything. Our threat hunters proactively search your environment for indicators of compromise that alerts miss, before attackers cause damage.

Intelligence-Led Hunts
MITRE ATT&CK Aligned
Cloud and On-Premise
Hunt Report Included
Hunting Capabilities

Finding what automated tools cannot see.

Our threat hunters combine intelligence, experience, and deep technical knowledge to find attackers hiding in your environment.

Hypothesis-Driven Hunting

Structured threat hunts based on intelligence-driven hypotheses. We ask the question "what if an attacker is already in your environment?" and go looking for the answer.

Hypothesis-DrivenIntelligence-LedStructured Hunts

Lateral Movement Detection

Hunting for signs of lateral movement, credential abuse, and privilege escalation that automated tools often miss during the dwell time before an attack activates.

Lateral MovementCredential AbusePrivilege Escalation

Living-off-the-Land Detection

Detection of attackers using legitimate system tools to avoid detection. PowerShell abuse, WMI persistence, and LOLBin usage identified through behavioural analysis.

LOLBinsPowerShell AbuseWMI Persistence

Insider Threat Hunting

Proactive hunting for indicators of malicious or negligent insider activity, including data exfiltration, policy violations, and unusual access patterns.

Insider ThreatsData ExfiltrationAccess Anomalies

Cloud Environment Hunting

Threat hunting across cloud environments including Azure, AWS, and Microsoft 365. Misconfiguration exploitation, identity abuse, and cloud-native attack techniques.

Cloud HuntingAzureM365 Threats

Hunt Findings and Reporting

Every hunt produces a findings report. Confirmed threats are escalated immediately. Negative hunts provide assurance evidence for compliance and audit purposes.

Hunt ReportsAssurance EvidenceCompliance Support
How We Hunt

A structured methodology. Repeatable results.

Every threat hunt follows a structured process. You know what we are hunting for, how we are hunting, and what we found.

01

Threat Intelligence Review

We review current threat intelligence relevant to your sector and environment to identify the most likely attack scenarios to hunt for.

02

Hypothesis Development

Structured hunting hypotheses developed based on threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and your specific environment characteristics.

03

Data Collection and Analysis

Relevant log data, endpoint telemetry, and network traffic collected and analysed to test each hypothesis systematically.

04

Anomaly Investigation

Anomalies and suspicious patterns investigated in depth. Each finding assessed for genuine threat versus benign explanation.

05

Threat Confirmation and Escalation

Confirmed threats escalated immediately with full context and recommended response actions. Incident response engaged if required.

06

Hunt Report and Detection Improvement

Hunt findings documented. New detection rules created based on hunt outcomes. Your detection capability improves with every hunt.

Real Results

What we have found in UK environments.

Financial Services

A UK investment bank wanted assurance that their environment was clean following a sector-wide threat campaign. Their SIEM had not raised any alerts.

Threat hunt identified a dormant implant that had been present for 6 weeks. Removed before activation. Full forensic investigation completed.

Technology Company

A UK SaaS provider needed to demonstrate proactive threat hunting to satisfy enterprise customer security requirements during a contract renewal.

Monthly hunting programme documented and evidenced. Contract renewed. No threats found, but assurance evidence provided to the customer.

Public Sector

A UK local authority needed proactive threat hunting following NCSC guidance issued after a series of attacks on similar organisations.

Hunting programme established. Suspicious scheduled task identified and removed. NCSC guidance met. Ongoing quarterly hunts in place.

Start Your First Hunt

Is an attacker already in your environment?

Most organisations do not know until it is too late. A proactive threat hunt gives you confidence that your environment is clean, or finds the threat before it activates.