Hunting Initial Access: Catching the Breach Before It Begins
How to hunt for the techniques adversaries use to gain their first foothold, before it turns into a deeper compromise.
How to hunt for the techniques adversaries use to gain their first foothold, before it turns into a deeper compromise.
How to hunt for adversary infrastructure being staged and developed, catching signals of an attack before it's actually launched.
Hunt external scanning, enumeration, and social-engineering preparation as early-warning signals before an intrusion.
Mastering MITRE ATT&CK Navigator as a real hunt planning and documentation tool, not just a reference chart on the wall.
A capstone exercise running three full end-to-end threat hunts using intelligence-driven, behavioural, and TTP-based methodologies.
How intelligence analysis methods like ACH and devil's advocacy help hunters catch their own cognitive bias before it costs an investigation.
Why hunting attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures instead of artefacts produces the most durable, hardest-to-evade detections.
Use behavioral baselines and contextual anomalies to investigate threats that have no known signature or indicator.
How to use indicators of compromise as a genuine starting point for behavioural investigation, instead of a binary match-or-don't-match check.
A full framework for running threat hunts entirely driven by structured cyber threat intelligence, with minimal untested assumptions.