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Threat Hunting & Monitoring

Hunting IOCs directly in your backups: hashes, YARA rules and malicious patterns searched through your data history — to find the truly clean recovery point.

FOCUS · RECOVERY WITHOUT REINFECTIONRestoring malware along with the data is the classic: here you hunt BEFORE restoring
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01 · What it is

Threat Hunting & Monitoring, made clear.

After an attack there's one question: which is the last clean copy? Threat Hunting searches for indicators of compromise — file hashes, YARA rules, paths and patterns — directly in the snapshots, back in time, without touching production. Threat Monitoring does it automatically and continuously, with updated intelligence feeds: dormant malware is found before the restore, not after.

YARA
industry-standard rules: the same ones your IR team uses
Historical
the hunt goes back through the catalog: when did it get in?
Pre-restore
the certified clean point before restarting
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The hunt

Snapshots in the catalogdays, weeks, months back
IOC hashes
YARA rules
Paths & patterns
scanning on the copies · zero production load
Threat Huntingon-demand, IR-driven
Threat Monitoringcontinuous, with intelligence feeds
The certified clean recovery point

Always-fresh feeds

Threat Monitoring uses curated intelligence: new signatures searched in old copies too.

Targeted hunts

The IR team brings the incident IOCs: the platform says where and since when they exist.

Infection timeline

First appearance, spread, touched systems: the attack story written in the backups.

Quarantine

Malicious files flagged: restores skip them — reinfection avoided by design.

03 · In depth

IOCs in backups: why it is the right place to search

Backups are the complete historical photograph of the environment: hunting IOCs there answers 'since when are we compromised?' without infinite log retention; scans run on the cluster/platform with no production load and without tipping off the attacker; results flag infected snapshots and quarantine individual files; orchestrated restores exclude flagged objects: you restart clean, with evidence for post-incident and insurance.

  • Hashes & YARA — the incident response standards, applied to the copies
  • Historical scanning — months back without logs: the catalog is the memory
  • Quarantined files — flagged and excluded from restores: reinfection blocked
  • Zero noise — the attacker doesn't see the hunt: work happens on the copies
  • Evidence ready — reports for IR, auditors and insurance
  • IR integration — your team's IOCs or our NOC's, as direct input
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

T-zero
the date of first malware appearance, found
100%
of snapshots scannable, even old ones
0
production load during the hunt
1
certified recovery point: the right one
Restarting isn't enough: you must restart clean. Hunting in backups is how it's done seriously.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Post-incident

Since when are we compromised? Answer with a date.

Dormant malware

Found in the copies before it strikes again.

Cyber insurance

The clean-point evidence, documented.

The day of the attack is no time to improvise: let's prepare the hunt together — beforehand.