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Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
Extend proactive threat hunting beyond the endpoint.
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Augment your security operations center (SOC) team with leading end-to-end protection, threat intelligence, and expertise.
Proactive, comprehensive threat hunting
Unify cross-domain security signals that go beyond the endpoint with Defender Experts for Hunting.
Access expertise on demand
Consult with our experts on specific incidents, context clarity, and additional threat intelligence.
Benefit from cross-domain hunting
Get a full picture of the attack story as we reason over 43 trillion cross-domain threat signals around the clock.
Prioritize significant threats
Improve SOC response with timely notifications and analysis of what we investigated and found.
Our proactive threat hunting process
Threat Hunting Survival Guide
Threat hunters, like wilderness survival experts, must remain vigilant. Learn how to identify human-operated attacks and hunt for threats like an expert.
Included capabilities
Threat hunting and analysis
Let Microsoft threat hunting experts look deeper to expose advanced threats and correlate across the stack.
Experts on Demand
Consult a Microsoft security expert about a specific incident, nation-state actor, or attack vector.
Defender Experts Notifications
Receive incident notifications in Microsoft 365 Defender to help improve your SOC response.
Hunter-trained AI
Improve threat discovery and prioritization with automated tools trained by our security experts based on their learnings.
Interactive reports
Receive an interactive experience showing what we hunted and our findings, threat categorizations, and adversary tactics according to the MITRE framework.
Get more protection with Defender Experts for XDR
Help your team triage, investigate, and respond to incidents with Defender Experts for XDR, a managed XDR service that helps stop attackers and prevent future compromise.
Industry recognition
Industry-leading managed detection and response
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is a Leader in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services.
Bridgewater goes all in on Microsoft Defender Experts
“Only Microsoft offers a coherent architecture that combines end-to-end security solutions with such a high and broad degree of productivity, hardware, and tight interoperability.”
Igor Tsyganskiy, CTO, Bridgewater Associates
DGS Law raises the security bar with Microsoft Defender Experts
“This threat hunting service could work for many kinds of organizations needing a turn-key solution they can get up and running in days without a full security team.”
Chad Ergun, CIO, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
Learn threat hunting basics in this Forrester report
Kickstart your threat hunting program and reap the benefits to improve your overall SOC response.1
Additional resources
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Improve your overall SOC response with managed threat hunting from Microsoft.
What Security Teams Want from MDR Providers
Learn the latest trends and state of managed detection and response (MDR) services from the survey by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group.2
Threat hunter webcast
Watch Tracking the Adversary, a webcast for new security analysts and seasoned threat hunters.
Watch a threat hunting story
See how Defender Experts for Hunting helps protect customers from an adversary-in-the-middle attack.
Defender Experts for Hunting
Find out how Microsoft can help provide proactive threat hunting that extends beyond the endpoint.
- [1] Forrester, Threat Hunting 101: Providing A Meaningful Definition For Threat Hunting. Jeff Pollard, Allie Mellen, with Joseph Blankenship, Alexis Bouffard, Peggy Dostie. July 15, 2022.
- [2] TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group Research Report, What Security Teams Want from MDR Providers. Dave Gruber, September 2022.
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