Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
Stay ahead of emerging cyberthreats with around-the-clock, proactive threat hunting across endpoints, identities, emails, cloud apps, and cloud workloads.
Proactive threat hunting across cloud workloads
Announcing Defender Experts for Hunting expanded coverage for cloud workloads, starting with hybrid and multicloud servers in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Always-on, cross-domain threat hunting
Uncover novel threats earlier with around-the-clock, proactive threat hunting across domains.
Access expertise on demand
Consult with our experts on specific incidents, context clarity, and additional threat intelligence.
Gain extensive hunting insights
Get the full cyberattack story as we analyze more than 84 trillion cross-domain cyberthreat signals.
Prioritize significant cyberthreats
Improve security operations center (SOC) response with timely notifications and investigation analysis.
Our proactive threat hunting process
Threat Hunting Survival Guide
Learn how to identify human-operated cyberattacks and hunt for cyberthreats like an expert.
Included capabilities
Threat hunting and analysis
Let Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting look deeper to expose advanced cyberthreats and correlate across the stack.
Experts on Demand
Consult a Microsoft security expert about a specific incident, nation-state actor, or cyberattack vector.
Notifications from experts
Receive incident notifications in Microsoft Defender XDR to help improve your SOC response.
Hunter-trained AI
Improve cyberthreat 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, cyberthreat categorizations, and adversary tactics according to the MITRE framework.
Get more protection with Defender Experts for XDR
Let us triage, investigate, and respond to incidents for you with Defender Experts for XDR, a managed extended-detection-and-response (XDR) service that helps stop cyberattackers and prevent future compromise.
Industry recognition
Industry-leading managed detection and response
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR demonstrated excellence in the latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services.
LTIMindtree prevents security breaches with Defender Experts for Hunting
“By implementing Defender Experts for Hunting, we enhanced our cybersecurity posture by having experts who continuously look for hidden threats, ensuring the safety of our data, reputation, and customer trust.”
Chandan Pani, Chief Information Security Officer, LTIMindtree
DGS Law raises the security bar with Microsoft Defender Experts
“The Microsoft Defender Experts 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
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
A 2023 study found a return on investment of 96% and a net present value of $449K over three years with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting.1
Scaling Your Security Program with MSSP and MDR
Learn how to support your team with managed security service providers (MSSPs) and managed detection and response (MDR) services.2
Additional resources
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Improve your overall SOC response with managed threat hunting from Microsoft.
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