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Proactive threat hunting

Find suspicious activity that alerts may have missed.

Investigate a security question beyond the alerts already in the queue. Nova supports focused Threat Hunting with reports that bring the hypothesis, examined activity, findings, affected entities, and follow-up suggestions together. Threat Relevance helps analysts assess which threats matter to their environment, while coverage and confidence explain how far the available evidence supports a conclusion.

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Proactive Threat Hunting Investigate a security question beyond the alerts already in the queue. Nova supports focused Threat Hunting with reports that bring the hypothesis, examined activity, findings, affected entities, and follow-up suggestions together. Threat Relevance helps analysts assess which threats matter to their environment, while coverage and confidence explain how far the available evidence supports a conclusion.

01Related alertsStart with suspicious behavior

Use a complete set of related alerts and supporting evidence before starting a hunt.

Related alerts checked

02Risk and behavior reviewFocus on significant behavior changes

Qyronis can raise the priority of a hunting hypothesis when unusual behavior or a growing risk supports further investigation. Timing alone is not enough.

Evidence and behavior checked

03Search event historyLook for activity that did not trigger alerts

Search related events for repeated behavior and matching activity that did not trigger alerts. Check the available coverage.

Validation required

Threat Hunting resultsReview hunting suggestions, runs, findings, Hunt Insights and reports.

A hunt suggestion still needs investigation

Investigate the suggested pattern across a wider set of events and review any changes over time. Matching activity without an alert may deserve attention, but it does not by itself prove an attack or a missing detection rule.

Hunting inquiry path

Hypothesis
Evidence
Validate

Product experience

See how work moves through Nova

Move through current product views one step at a time. Each view answers a different security question and keeps the available evidence and limits visible.

Threat intelligence feeds Assess 90 days of indicator activity, high-risk intelligence, source contribution and geographic concentration without treating map location as attacker attribution.

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Connected behavioral intelligence

From unusual behavior to a focused threat hunt.

Qyronis can help prioritize hunting hypotheses when unusual behavior or a growing risk warrants closer inspection. Proactive Hunting then searches related events for repeated behavior, supporting evidence and activity that did not trigger alerts.

QYRONIS

Intelligence question

What behavior is deviating, and where might it be heading?

Learns normal behavior for identities and assets, then identifies unusual activity and changes that may indicate a growing threat.

Selective bridge Qualified patterns only

Semantic anomaly
Progressive intent
Materially rising trajectory

Timing alone does not advance a candidate.

Independent support + drift checks

PROACTIVE HUNTING

Validation question

Does the same behavior appear in other events, including activity that did not trigger an alert? What should an analyst check next?

Searches beyond the original alerts for repeated behavior and matching activity, then reports the evidence found and any gaps in coverage.

Governed hunt trail

Suggestion
Execution
Finding
Hunt Insight
Report

Use behavior analytics to focus threat hunts, then review the results in context.

Explore Qyronis behavior intelligence

Related alerts

Investigate the pattern behind related alerts.

A hunt starts from a supported pattern in the available alerts. Qyronis can add behavioral context that helps prioritize the review, but an anomaly score alone does not create a hunt.

Explore Qyronis behavior intelligence

Alert operations Manage alert workload by status, severity, score, owner and investigation progress while keeping the source evidence available for triage.

Search related events

Look beyond the original alerts.

Search for recurring activity and events that did not generate alerts. Check the available time range and missing data before drawing conclusions.

Explore investigations

Security event search Search 90 days of retained security activity with NQL, field filters and a normalized event table to validate the evidence behind an alert or investigation.

Hunt findings and review

Carry suggestions, executions, findings, Hunt Insights and reports into analyst review.

Analysts review hunt findings before deciding on further work. Proactive Hunting does not automatically create alerts, confirm a detection gap, or carry out remediation.

Explore evidence-led investigations

Proactive threat hunting Review 90 days of proactive hunting reports, suggested investigations and supporting evidence so analysts can choose the next hunt with clear context.

Threat Hunting results

Test a threat hypothesis. Review the matching activity.

QUALIFY

Complete, qualified starting patterns

Start with related alerts and enough supporting information to investigate a specific pattern.

RECURRENCE

Behavior recurrence across broader evidence

Check whether the same behavior appears in events beyond the original alerts.

UNALERTED

Unalerted matching activity kept honest

Surface matching activity for validation without presenting it as a proven detection gap.

GOVERN

Hunt results

Keep suggestions, executions, findings, Hunt Insights and reports connected to analyst validation.

FAQ

Questions about Proactive Threat Hunting.

How does Proactive Hunting work?

Does every Qyronis anomaly become a hunt?

No. A hunt must first have support from related alerts. Qyronis can help prioritize it when unusual behavior or a significant change adds useful information. An anomaly score or a timing change alone does not create a hunt.

Does unalerted matching activity prove a detection gap?

No. It is evidence for analyst validation, not proof of a detection gap. Only direct rule-evaluation evidence can support that conclusion.

How are Qyronis and Proactive Hunting different?

Qyronis identifies behavior that differs from the usual pattern. Proactive Hunting searches a wider set of events to see whether suspicious behavior repeats, including activity that did not generate an alert. Analysts review the results of both.

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