Performing Threat Hunting with Elastic SIEM

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• SOC teams need to proactively search for threats not caught by existing detection rules
• Threat intelligence reports describe new TTPs requiring validation against historical data
• Red team exercises reveal detection gaps that need hunting query development
• Periodic hunting cadence requires structured hypothesis-driven investigations

Do not use for real-time alert triage — that belongs in the Elastic Security Alerts queue with automated detection rules.

Prerequisites

• Elastic Security 8.x+ with Security app enabled in Kibana
• Data ingestion via Elastic Agent (Endpoint Security integration) or Beats (Winlogbeat, Filebeat, Packetbeat)
• Data normalized to Elastic Common Schema (ECS) field mappings
• User role with kibana_security_solution and read access to relevant indices
• MITRE ATT&CK framework knowledge for hypothesis generation