Threat hunting is a proactive search for threats that may bypass automated security tools or display previously unobserved tactics and techniques. At Fortra, our threat hunting goal is simple: Detect potential threats early and escalate timely alerts, keeping your environment secure.
A key strength of our approach is our ability to hunt across multiple customer environments rather than in isolation. This broad perspective gives analysts unparalleled visibility into diverse threats that many competitors never encounter. It enables them to spot emerging attack patterns, correlate activity across industries, and refine hunting techniques to scale effectively while staying relevant. By analyzing data from multiple clients, we proactively detect sophisticated threats that might otherwise go unnoticed, ultimately delivering stronger security outcomes for everyone.
How Fortra Delivers Smarter, Scalable Threat Hunting
Fortra takes three complementary approaches to threat hunting: structured, situational, and exploratory hunting. Each approach serves a distinct purpose, and together they form a unified, end-to-end defense against threats.
STRUCTURED HUNTING
SITUATIONAL HUNTING
EXPLORATORY HUNTING
Structured Hunting: Framework-driven precision
Structured hunting leverages industry-standard frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK and NIST, combined with proprietary methodologies engineered by our experts to ensure precise and effective outcomes. Our analysts track threats using dedicated review boards that track log data, IDS signature-based detections, and insights from the Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts team. Continuous monitoring identifies emerging and ongoing threats early and escalates them when necessary.
When suspicious activity is detected, it triggers targeted hunts that lead to confirmed findings, which are clearly tagged in the incident console for rapid correlation. This structured process enables us to capture, analyze, and communicate every potential threat efficiently and thoroughly, leaving nothing to chance and ensuring our clients remain protected in a constantly evolving threat landscape.
Situational Hunting: Rapid response to emerging threats
Situational hunting focuses on responding to emerging threats, such as newly disclosed vulnerabilities or zero-day exploits. Our analysts proactively monitor threat intelligence feeds, security news sites, and forums to stay ahead of potential risks. When a new vulnerability is identified, the team rapidly assesses its potential impact across customer environments and initiates targeted hunts for related indicators of compromise (IOCs) and attacker behaviors.
This type of hunting goes beyond immediate response as it drives deep post-incident investigations to uncover hidden attack vectors, lateral movement, and any overlooked compromises. Building on root cause analysis (RCA) from confirmed incidents, this approach eliminates residual attacker activity and strengthens defenses. Every insight gained enriches Fortra’s threat intelligence, ensuring future protection is smarter and more resilient.
Exploratory Hunting: Analyst-led discovery beyond automation
Exploratory or unstructured hunting leverages the experience, intuition, and skill of our analysts. Differing from the structured approach, exploratory investigations explore anomalies and deviations from expected behavior.
Our analysts correlate log data, telemetry, and contextual intelligence to uncover threats that automated systems might miss. Our custom-built applications support this work, enabling analysts to identify and track evolving adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures in real time. By reviewing early signals from intrusion detection systems and analyzing them within a broader context, our team can detect subtle threats before they evolve and escalate timely alerts when necessary.
Proactive Threat Hunting for Today’s Threat Landscape
The combination of structured, situational, and exploratory threat hunting delivers multi-layered, proactive protection for your environment. Even if no alerts appear directly into your environment, your data strengthens detection across all Fortra customers. Each hunt drives continuous improvement, enhancing our ability to detect evolving threats and ensuring timely alerts keep you informed and protected.
Fortra’s threat hunting is systematic, adaptive, and built for today’s evolving threat landscape. It gives you peace of mind knowing potential risks are detected early, escalated appropriately, and that your environment benefits from collective intelligence powering protection across all our customers.
