Hunt & Hackett - Outsmart your digital adversaries

Pressure is coming from every direction. Boards and regulators demand proof of resilience. Your tech stack grows more complex each year as you add more tools, dashboards and data, but you don’t get more certainty. Weakness lists grow, attack paths multiply, and your exposure grows with them.

Meanwhile, foreign interest in European know-how, innovation and capital is intensifying. Adversaries continue to refine their tactics, finding new and creative ways to exploit your weaknesses. As threat actors mature, the best don’t make noise; they reduce visibility and settle in. By the time they’re caught by standard monitoring solutions, the damage is already done.

Against this backdrop, CISOs face an almost impossible mandate: prevent material outages, IP theft and data loss; reduce accumulated technical debt and shrink the exploitable attack surface; control SIEM and data costs without flying blind; demonstrate resilience under DORA and NIS2; and keep board, IT and the business aligned on risk and a realistic path toward secure-by-design.

Too often, our industry has responded to these challenges with observation, not interdiction. Traditional tool-driven security leaves too many gaps in visibility, too much noise in alerts, and too little proof when regulators, auditors and boards come knocking. Modern threats demand a proactive approach informed by frontline experience, not an ever-expanding technology stack. This is where Hunt & Hackett comes in.

We assume a well-resourced adversary will get in at some point - so we design for the moment they're already inside. Our IR-led approach means the same people who respond to major breaches design and run our 24/7 MDR service. We build backwards from real incident experience: What do adversaries actually do once they're in? Which signals and controls matter along the kill chain? How do we automate detection and response based on what we've seen work in the field? The result isn't abstract "maturity advice" or generic best practices. For every major threat scenario, we tie together preventive controls, deep detection content, and concrete response playbooks - giving your IT team specific, implementable changes that strengthen resilience over time.

Managed Detection & Response (MDR)

24/7, threat-led monitoring across identities, endpoints, cloud, IT and OT networks with deep coverage of lateral movement and rapid containment.

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Incident Response (IR, IRR & DFIR)

Experienced responders on standby with guaranteed capacity through retainers for fast investigation, containment and recovery.

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Security strategy & resilience validation

Threat aligned roadmaps and production validation that turn detections and intel into concrete improvements and evidence for boards and regulators.

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IR-led MDR, not console-watching

Threat and sector-driven, not tool-driven

As-code & data-driven, not alert-driven

Enterprise-grade protection at a fraction of historic cost

Designed for Europe: DORA, NIS2, GDPR and sovereignty

IR-led MDR, not console-watching

Our MDR is led by SOC experts with deep incident-response experience. The same people who design our detections and run our 24/7 SOC regularly work on major IR cases. Our multi-tenant platform ingests all relevant security telemetry, enabling methodical root-cause analysis directly from the MDR environment — without waiting for a separate IR project.

Our analysts don’t just handle alerts; they continuously improve the system. Using our proprietary automation framework, they codify what they learn from real incidents into new detections, playbooks, threat hunts and data checks — so every case makes the MDR service smarter and more efficient for all customers. Behind them is a dedicated IR team for major or complex cases, but the first layer of forensic depth is deliberately built into the SOC.

Result: faster containment, deeper understanding of what happened, and evidence you can actually use with management, regulators and counsel.

Threat- and sector-driven, not tool-driven

We track hundreds of APT groups, ransomware crews and criminal campaigns targeting Europe. Their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) are mapped to your sector, crown jewels and architecture — and then to concrete controls, telemetry and use cases.

For finance, manufacturing, logistics, tech, and critical infrastructure, we design MDR, security controls and roadmaps around who is actually targeting you, not just generic best practices.

As-code & data-driven, not alert-driven

We run an as-code SOC: infrastructure, detections and playbooks are all managed via CI/CD. With our own data pipelines we reduce SIEM costs sharply while keeping the telemetry you need for investigations, audits and regulators.

Because we deliberately built and integrated the key layers ourselves, we have end-to-end control over data, detection-as-code, hunting, automation, forensics and attack-path analysis. That lets us:

Cut telemetry ingest by 50–80% while keeping the visibility needed for root-cause investigations and threat hunting.
Keep 12 months of hot data available for threat hunting and IR.
Generate offensive insights via attack graphs into network design, user access, key assets, vulnerabilities, attack paths and incidents.
Customise health monitoring and data-ingest validation so detection doesn’t “go blind”.
Continuously improve coverage and reduce noise across your environment.
Turn new threat intel into new detections and hunts in days, not quarters.
Use incident insights to recommend concrete security controls and reprioritise your security roadmap.

Enterprise-grade protection at a fraction of historic cost

Five years ago, this level of protection was typically reserved for organisations spending hundreds of thousands per year. By owning more of the stack and automating aggressively, we can now deliver comparable depth starting well below that — and we’re on a clear path to make it accessible to a much broader market, without diluting effectiveness.

Designed for Europe: DORA, NIS2, GDPR and sovereignty

We are a private Dutch company, operating under NIS2 and GDPR. Our architecture and governance are designed with EU data residency and sovereignty in mind, while remaining fully compatible with major platforms like Microsoft.

That gives you today’s flexibility — and a credible path to more European autonomy in security tomorrow.

Agritech & horticulture businesses running data-driven, highly automated production where outages or compromise directly impact yield, supply and food chains.
Digital platforms & SaaS providers that are deeply embedded in their customers’ operations.
Energy, utilities & other critical infrastructure operators where outages or compromise directly affect continuity and safety.
Financial services & pension administrators operating under DORA and other supervisory pressure.