Threat Hunting Basics

Summary

Proactively searching for signs of compromise that automated alerts missed — a hypothesis-driven investigation, rather than waiting passively for a SIEM alert to fire.

• 1Form a hypothesis (e.g. 'is there unusual PowerShell activity?') and search sample data to test it.
• 2Learn why threat hunting complements, but doesn't replace, automated detection.
• 3Understand this skill typically develops after strong log analysis fundamentals.