Introduction to Threat Hunting Workflows
Learn how to move from alert review into structured hunting by building hypotheses, validating activity, and documenting findings.
Read lab →Step-by-step exercises on investigations, attack patterns, hunting techniques, and useful KQL workflows.
Browse category →Use this category page to organize practical investigations, threat hunting walkthroughs, and query-driven exercises for defenders.
Learn how to move from alert review into structured hunting by building hypotheses, validating activity, and documenting findings.
Read lab →Practice practical KQL for sign-ins, suspicious process activity, email abuse, and investigation pivots across Microsoft security data.
Read lab →Start with one detection and work outward through users, hosts, processes, timestamps, and related activity to tell the full story.
Read lab →Walk through phishing, credential abuse, and suspicious remote access patterns to understand how attackers first get a foothold.
Read lab →Examine parent-child process relationships, command lines, and execution context to identify suspicious behavior beyond single alerts.
Read lab →Follow a realistic scenario involving inbox rules, mailbox changes, sign-in anomalies, and message activity to validate compromise.
Read lab →This section helps readers quickly understand the kind of hands-on security content they can expect before they dive into individual labs.