A wrong hypothesis can still be useful
A hunt that disproves its own theory has told you something real.
You now know that behaviour is not present in that data over that period, which narrows the field and can be recorded. It also frequently exposes a gap: the reason you could not confirm it was that the necessary telemetry does not exist. That finding is often worth more than the original question.
More on Threat hunting
- Hunting starts with a question, not a dashboardBring a question
- Absence of evidence depends on coverageOnly the lit part was searched
- Hunts can become future detectionsLeave a bell on the path
- Threat intelligence should change a question or actionDid it move the points? Intelligence is useful when it changes what you ask or what you do
- Entity context turns events into investigationsThread the beads
- Baseline means understanding normal variationNormal is a band, not a line