Service · Threat Hunting

Find what got past the alerts.

Hypothesis-driven hunts for adversary behavior that doesn't trip standard detection rules. We look for dormant persistence, slow lateral movement, and the patterns attackers use to stay hidden for months.

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What Threat Hunting Covers

Detection rules find known patterns. Threat hunting finds the rest. We work from a hypothesis (what an attacker might be doing) and look for evidence in your environment that confirms or rules it out.

Behavioral

First-Seen Process Analysis

Binaries and scripts that have never executed in your environment before. The first sign of staged attacker tooling.

Identity

Credential Misuse Patterns

Authentication anomalies, impossible-travel logins, and service account behavior that doesn't match its baseline.

Persistence

Dormant Persistence

Scheduled tasks, registry run keys, WMI subscriptions, and other persistence mechanisms attackers leave behind for later use.

Lateral

Slow Lateral Movement

Quiet movement across your network using legitimate tools. The kind that evades behavior-based detection until it's too late.

Exfiltration

Long-Duration Data Staging

Files being slowly aggregated, archived, or staged for exfiltration over days or weeks. Below the threshold of volume-based alerts.

Process

Rare Parent-Child Chains

Process execution chains that almost never happen in your environment. Often the signature of living-off-the-land attacker techniques.

How a Hunt Runs

Each hunt starts with a hypothesis. Each hunt ends with a documented finding, a refined detection rule, or both.

Step 1

Hypothesis

Start with a specific attacker technique or behavior pattern. We document what we're looking for and why.

Step 2

Hunt

Query telemetry across endpoints, identity, cloud, and network signals for evidence of the hypothesis.

Step 3

Validate

Findings are validated by engineers. False positives are documented to prevent future noise. Confirmed findings escalate to response.

Step 4

Codify

Successful hunts get converted into detection rules. The hunt becomes automated coverage going forward.

Why Threat Hunting Matters

Detection rules are necessary but not sufficient. Hunting closes the gap.

Rules Have Blind Spots

Every detection rule is built around known attacker patterns. Adversaries innovate. Hunting finds what rules can't.

Dwell Time Is the Real Cost

The longer an attacker is in your environment, the more they steal, encrypt, or exfiltrate. Hunting compresses dwell time.

Compliance Increasingly Requires It

Frameworks like NIST CSF 2.0 increasingly expect documented threat hunting as part of mature security programs.

We Codify What We Find

Each successful hunt becomes a new detection rule. Your detection content gets stronger every month, not just when vendors push updates.

How to Get Threat Hunting

Included with Fortress

Included

Continuous threat hunting is included in the Fortress tier at no additional cost.

Monthly hypothesis-driven hunt engagements
Findings reported in your monthly posture report
New detection rules deployed from successful hunts
Available immediately on Fortress activation

Standalone Engagement

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One-time or recurring threat hunts available outside Fortress, including for environments not currently under Carbynix monitoring.

Scoped engagement: typically 2 to 6 weeks
Specific hypothesis or full environmental sweep
Detailed findings report with evidence and recommendations
Optional retainer for quarterly recurring hunts

Common Questions

How is threat hunting different from continuous monitoring?

Monitoring is automated detection of known patterns. Hunting is human-driven investigation of suspected patterns that automation might miss. They're complementary, not redundant.

How often do hunts find something real?

Most hunts confirm that a hypothesis is not present. That's still a valuable finding. When hunts do find something, it's typically dormant persistence, dormant credentials, or staged tooling that automated detection didn't flag.

Can you hunt in an environment you don't monitor?

Yes. Standalone hunts can be scoped against environments not currently on Carbynix MDR. You provide telemetry access, we provide the hunt.

What do hunt findings look like?

Each finding includes the hypothesis tested, the evidence collected, the verdict (confirmed, suspicious, or ruled out), and recommended actions. Findings suitable for sharing with leadership, counsel, or auditors.

Find what your alerts are missing.

Threat hunting is included with Fortress. Standalone engagements available for non-Fortress environments. Schedule a consultation to scope what makes sense.

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