Threat Hunting Guide

Proactive threat hunting helps security teams detect advanced threats 11 days earlier and save an average of $1.3M per incident (Gartner, Prioritize Threat Hunting for the Early Detection of Stealthy Attacks, Oct 2025).

This comprehensive guide shows you how to operationalize hunting with the Vectra AI Platform—using AI-enhanced metadata, AI assisted search, pre-built queries, and repeatable workflows to uncover hidden attacker behaviors before they escalate.

In this guide, you will:

• Learn how to hunt for attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to detect stealthy behaviors that evade traditional alerting, such as coerced authentications, DPAPI key retrieval, or non-standard SSH usage.
• Explore compliance-based hunts that surface outdated protocols, insecure configurations, and unauthorized AI service usage before they create audit or regulatory risks.
• Discover how to search for indicators of compromise (IOCs), including malicious domains, IPs, and file hashes, to validate exposures and confirm containment.
• See how AI-enhanced metadata accelerates investigation and enables deeper visibility across network, identity, and cloud.