# Threat Hunting — that never sleeps

TandemTrace hunts your environment 24/7 — autonomously, continuously, multi-SIEM, MITRE-mapped. Not a quarterly project. Not a single-tool query. A living hunt program that runs while you sleep.

For Heads of SOC and hunting teams.

## Hunting is the work that never gets done

Every CISO (Chief Information Security Officer — the executive responsible for an organization's security posture) will tell you their team should hunt continuously. Almost none do. Hunting is episodic, single-tool, dependent on the few seniors who have the time and the headspace — and those people are the first ones offered jobs elsewhere. Meanwhile, AI-enabled adversary activity is up **89% YoY** and dwell time has barely moved.

**How hunting happens today — episodic, single-tool, senior-only:**

- A "hunt" is a calendar event, not a state. Most teams hunt monthly at best.
- Each hunt runs in one tool — Splunk OR Sentinel OR CrowdStrike — never across all of them at once.
- Detection rules go stale silently. No one notices until the breach proves it.
- MITRE coverage exists in a spreadsheet, not in the live environment.
- When the senior hunter leaves, the institutional knowledge leaves with them.

**What TandemTrace does instead — continuous, multi-SIEM, always-on:**

- Hunts run 24/7 — generated, prioritized, executed, and re-run autonomously.
- Correlates across every connected SIEM and EDR in a single hunt, not one tool at a time.
- Living MITRE coverage map — gaps surface the moment they appear.
- Every finding lands in your queue with full evidence and reasoning attached.
- Your seniors review and tune. They don't write queries from scratch.

## What an autonomous hunter actually does

1. **CONTINUOUS — always hunting, never idle.** No "hunt window." TandemTrace runs hypothesis-driven and TTP-based (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures — the adversary behaviors catalogued in MITRE ATT&CK) hunts around the clock, re-running them as new telemetry arrives.
2. **MULTI-SIEM — correlates across your entire stack.** A single hunt joins identity from your IdP, network from your SIEM, process telemetry from your EDR, and cloud events from your CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform). One signal, many sources.
3. **MITRE-MAPPED — living ATT&CK coverage.** Every hunt maps to a technique. Coverage is computed from what your environment actually exercises — not what your spreadsheet claims.
4. **HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN — hunts that ask why, not just what.** TandemTrace generates and tests hunting hypotheses based on threat intel, your environment's posture, and what's already been seen — like a hunter would.
5. **EVIDENCE-FIRST — findings come with the receipts.** Every escalation includes the queries run, the data inspected, the pivots taken, and the reasoning that led to the verdict. Auditable end-to-end.
6. **TUNABLE — senior hunters stay in control.** Your team approves new hunt logic, tunes priorities, and adds environment-specific context. The agent learns your stack — it doesn't impose a template.

**Live MITRE coverage example** (highlighted = currently exercised by autonomous hunts in a sample environment):

✓ Initial Access · ✓ Execution · Persistence · ✓ Privilege Escalation · ✓ Defense Evasion · Credential Access · ✓ Discovery · ✓ Lateral Movement · Collection · ✓ Command & Control · Exfiltration · ✓ Impact

## How it works

Three steps. Live in days.

1. **CONNECT — plug into every data source.** Read-only API into your SIEMs, EDRs, identity, and cloud telemetry. No log re-routing, no rip-and-replace. Multi-tenant from day one.
2. **HUNT — hunts run autonomously, 24/7.** TandemTrace generates hypotheses, executes hunts across all connected sources, validates findings, and re-runs them as data evolves. MITRE coverage updates live.
3. **ESCALATE — findings reach the right human.** Confirmed findings escalate with full evidence and reasoning. Your senior hunters review, tune, and direct — they don't write queries from scratch.

## AI you can actually trust — engineering invariants

- **GROUNDED — zero hallucinated IOCs.** Every IOC and finding is grounded in your actual telemetry. We surface what's there — never synthesize what isn't.
- **AUDITABLE — every hunt, with the receipts.** Each finding includes the queries run, the data inspected, the pivots taken, and the reasoning. You can replay any decision the agent made.
- **GOVERNED — human-in-the-loop by default.** Your senior hunters approve new logic, tune priorities, and override decisions. Nothing acts autonomously that you don't ratify.

## Built by people who've spent careers hunting

> "The honest constraint isn't tooling — it's that hunting only happens when a senior analyst has spare time. Spare time is the thing none of us have. The only way to hunt continuously is to delegate the labor to something that doesn't run out of it."

Founding team alumni: Symantec (acquired), ESET, Microsoft, Devo, Cisco. 100+ years of combined SOC, detection, and threat-hunting experience.

Independent research:

- [SANS Whitepaper — AI-Human Collaboration in Modern SOCs](https://tandemtrace.ai/papers/sans-ai-human-collaboration.md)
- [EU SOC Survey — 200+ leaders, BridgerWise Research](https://tandemtrace.ai/papers/bridgerwise-ai-soc-europe.md)
- [All research](https://tandemtrace.ai/research.md)

## Talk to us

20 minutes. Real hunts. No slides. We'll show you autonomous hunts running on a sample environment, walk through the MITRE coverage view, and answer the integration questions specific to your stack. Email [hello@TandemTrace.ai](mailto:hello@TandemTrace.ai) — we answer in hours.

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*Canonical URL: https://tandemtrace.ai/threat-hunting*
*Last updated: 2026-05-16*