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The university collects the reference material behind this guide in one place. Nine lessons in three tracks cover the basics of autonomous hunting, how to evaluate what a system produces, and how to run one once it is live. The glossary defines 40 terms, alphabetically and each with its own anchor. Lessons are written from public vendor material and published frameworks, and none of them ranks vendors.
Guide updated September 2026 · Autonomous Threat Hunting editors
Glossary
Foundations
What autonomous hunting is made of: the ladder, the hypothesis and the behaviors it looks for.
LESSON 1 · 3 MIN READ
The five rungs of the autonomy ladder in practice
What each level looks like during a week of use.
LESSON 2 · 3 MIN READ
From advisory to hypothesis: how an autonomous system reads intelligence
The first two stages of an autonomous hunt, and where they go wrong.
LESSON 3 · 3 MIN READ
Behaviors before indicators: why autonomous hunts look for TTPs
Why hunting for how an attacker works lasts longer than hunting for what they left behind.
Evaluating
How to judge what a system hands you: reports, corroboration and the step from hunt to rule.
LESSON 4 · 2 MIN READ
Evaluating an autonomous hunt report
Six things to check before you trust a finding, or a clean result.
LESSON 5 · 3 MIN READ
Corroboration in practice: what counts as a second source
How a single matching row becomes a finding worth a person's time.
LESSON 6 · 3 MIN READ
From hunt to production detection: the promotion step
What has to happen between a confirmed finding and a rule that runs every day.
Running it
What changes once it is live: approvals, review time and keeping hunts current.
LESSON 7 · 3 MIN READ
Designing a human approval step
Where a person should decide, and how to make that decision quick and on the record.
LESSON 8 · 3 MIN READ
Planning review capacity for autonomous hunting
Autonomous hunting moves work from running hunts to reviewing them. Plan for that work.
LESSON 9 · 3 MIN READ
Retiring and revising automated hunts
Automated hunts and the rules they produce need an owner and an end date.