Cyber Threat Hunting Skills: Detect, Analyze & Respond

cyber threat hunting skills

Develop essential cyber threat hunting skills to proactively detect, analyze, and respond to advanced threats in modern enterprise environments. This course is designed for cybersecurity professionals who want to move beyond reactive defense and take a proactive approach to threat detection. Learn how to use threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and forensic tools to uncover hidden threats before they cause harm.

What You’ll Learn

• Understanding the threat hunting lifecycle and methodologies
• Identifying indicators of compromise (IOCs) and attack techniques
• Using SIEM tools like Splunk and ELK for log analysis
• Leveraging threat intelligence feeds and MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Performing behavioral and anomaly-based detection
• Creating hypotheses and hunt queries to find threats
• Conducting incident response and root cause analysis
• Automating hunting tasks with Python and scripts

Requirements

• Basic understanding of networking and operating systems
• Familiarity with cybersecurity fundamentals and common threats
• Experience with tools like Wireshark, Linux CLI, or PowerShell is helpful

Course Description

This cyber threat hunting skills course empowers you to actively seek out cyber threats lurking within networks, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure. Unlike traditional monitoring, threat hunting involves hypothesis-driven investigation and deep analysis of data to uncover stealthy and persistent adversaries.

You will explore real-world attack scenarios and hands-on labs using popular tools and frameworks. Learn to build hunt hypotheses, analyze logs and behaviors, and document findings for rapid incident response. With a focus on proactive defense, this course prepares you to hunt threats in modern enterprise environments using the latest techniques and intelligence sources.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence and technical capability to conduct independent threat hunts and support blue team security operations.

About the Instructor

This course is led by experienced threat hunters and incident response experts with backgrounds in enterprise cybersecurity, government defense, and red/blue team operations. Their real-world experience ensures practical and actionable insights for learners.

Explore These Valuable Resources

• MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• SANS: Beginner’s Guide to Threat Hunting
• CrowdStrike: What is Threat Hunting?

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• Network Security Fundamentals
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