Threat Hunting
Hypothesis-driven hunts for threats your detections missed
What this engagement covers
The service
Proactive, analyst-driven hunts through your telemetry looking for adversary activity that automated detections did not catch. Mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, delivered as both findings and reusable detections.
What we test
Targeted hunts across EDR telemetry, identity logs, cloud audit logs, DNS, proxy, and email - organized around concrete hypotheses tied to ATT&CK techniques and recent threat intel.
Scoping & Assessment Depth
Black Box Assessment
Zero-KnowledgeSimulates an external adversary targeting Threat Hunting with no internal credentials, source code, or architecture documentation. Assesses perimeter exposure, unauthenticated attack paths, and edge resilience.
Gray Box Assessment (Recommended)
CredentialedSimulates an authenticated user, tenant, or insider threat within Threat Hunting. We evaluate role segregation, authorization boundaries, privilege escalation, and business logic flaws across user tiers.
White Box / Source-Assisted
Full-KnowledgeConducted with direct access to architecture schematics, configuration files, and API/code documentation. Eliminates blind spots and provides exhaustive coverage of security mechanisms governing Threat Hunting.
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Vectors
Living-off-the-land binary abuse
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Living-off-the-land binary abuse across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Persistence via scheduled tasks
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Persistence via scheduled tasks across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Suspicious OAuth grants
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Suspicious OAuth grants across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Anomalous service account behavior
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Anomalous service account behavior across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Covert C2 over legitimate services
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Covert C2 over legitimate services across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Dormant backdoors
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Dormant backdoors across your Threat Hunting environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
How we run it
Quarterly or monthly hunt campaigns with published hypotheses, executed by senior analysts, delivering written narratives, IOCs, and SIEM/EDR detection content ready to deploy.
Hypothesis development from threat intel
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting hypothesis development from threat intel across your threat hunting deployment.
Data source validation
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting data source validation across your threat hunting deployment.
Analyst-driven querying
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting analyst-driven querying across your threat hunting deployment.
Finding triage and escalation
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting finding triage and escalation across your threat hunting deployment.
Detection content authoring
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting detection content authoring across your threat hunting deployment.
Campaign retrospective and handoff
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting campaign retrospective and handoff across your threat hunting deployment.
What you receive
Findings land in your tracker as you go, not only in a PDF at the end. Retest is in scope, not a change order.
- Campaign-scoped hunt hypotheses
- Written hunt narrative and findings
- IOCs discovered and scope of impact
- Deployable detection content
- MITRE ATT&CK coverage report
- Executive summary per campaign
What we usually find
The issues this engagement surfaces most often. Yours will differ, but this is the shape of it.
Who this is for
Auditor-Ready Compliance Crosswalk
| Framework | Control Section | Testing Evidence & Report Deliverable |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | CC4.1, CC7.1, CC7.2 | Technical testing evidence validating system boundaries, access restrictions, and vulnerability identification controls. |
| NIST Cybersecurity Framework | PR.AC, DE.CM, RS.AN | Technical testing verifying access controls, anomaly detection efficacy, and incident response mitigation capabilities. |
| PCI DSS v4.0 | Requirement 11.4 & 11.4.3 | Adversary-driven external and internal penetration testing with application-layer validation and vulnerability remediation verification. |
| HIPAA Security Rule | 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(8) | Formal technical evaluation verifying the integrity of ePHI safeguards, network segmentation, and privileged access safeguards. |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | Control A.8.8 & A.8.20 | Management of technical vulnerabilities and network security verification through independent technical assessments. |
Findings are mapped to SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, so the report drops into an audit package rather than needing to be translated first. If you need the readiness work behind one of those, that is a separate engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers on scoping, methodology, compliance validation, and deliverables.
Our Threat Hunting service combines deep manual testing with automated verification. We cover: Campaign-scoped hunt hypotheses, Written hunt narrative and findings, IOCs discovered and scope of impact, Deployable detection content, MITRE ATT&CK coverage report. Every engagement includes reproducible proof-of-concept exploits, developer-ready remediation guidance, and a free retest.
Yes. Findings are directly mapped to SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001 control requirements. The resulting report is auditor-ready and formatted for immediate submission to SOC 2 CPAs, PCI QSAs, and enterprise vendor risk assessment teams.
Yes. Every Lorikeet Security engagement includes free retesting within 30 to 60 days to validate that your remediation patches successfully resolve the identified vulnerabilities before your final report is issued.
Typical active testing turnaround is Campaign-based (2-6 weeks per campaign), with critical findings reported immediately via your Talon portal so your engineering team can begin remediation without waiting for the final PDF.
Pricing starts from $14,000 per campaign. We scope the engagement in one call based on your environment's surface area, user roles, and complexity, providing a transparent, fixed-price quote with no hidden change orders.
Scope it in one call
Tell us what is in scope and we come back with a fixed price and a start date. No discovery-call maze, no hourly estimate that moves.
