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Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting

Stay ahead of emerging cyberthreats with around-the-clock, AI-powered threat hunting across endpoints, identities, emails, cloud apps, and cloud workloads.
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OVERVIEW

Expose cyberthreats before they escalate

Defender Experts for Hunting uncovers novel threats early with around the clock, proactive hunting across domains.
  • Get a comprehensive view of the cyberattack story with insights from over 100 trillion daily signals analyzed by our experts.
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  • Get insights from our experts on specific incidents and the latest threats.
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  • Improve security operations center (SOC) response with timely notifications and investigation analysis.
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CAPABILITIES

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Threat hunting and analysis

Expose new cyberthreats and correlate signals across your environment.
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Experts on demand

Engage with our experts to learn more about a specific incident, nation-state actor, or cyberattack vector.

Notifications from experts

Receive incident notifications in Microsoft Defender to help improve your SOC awareness and response.

Hunter-trained AI

Improve threat discovery and prioritization with insights as well as automated tools trained by our experts.

Interactive reports

Receive comprehensive details on scope, impact, and analysis for each hunt conducted.

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Discover how we hunt for threats

From hypothesis to action, Microsoft detects, analyzes, and reports critical threats with expert guidance.

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“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

Frequently asked questions

  • Powered by threat intelligence, Defender Experts for Hunting provides around-the-clock, AI-assisted threat hunting across domains.

    Defender Experts for Hunting is included in Defender Experts for XDR and available as a standalone.
  • Defender Experts for Hunting works across Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Entra ID Protection, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  • During threat hunting investigations, our analysts refrain from taking direct actions on customer assets. Instead, they provide detailed information, including a threat summary and hunting queries that show the timeline of events for the identified cyberattack and remediation action recommendations. Defender Experts Notifications provide guidance on how to review and address the novel threat.
  • Submit questions about specific alerts, threats affecting your organisation, and notifications you receive. Ask Defender Experts is not intended to answer inquiries related to custom detections, bugs in your product experience in the Defender portal, or those related to security incident response services.

    Learn more about sample questions you can ask Defender Experts.
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