How MSPs can offer threat hunting without adding a full hunt team.

The MSP opportunity

Many MSPs and MSSPs want to offer proactive threat hunting, but the staffing model can be difficult. Customers want better security outcomes, yet they may not be ready to fund a dedicated hunt team, detection engineer, and CTI analyst for every account.

Make the workflow repeatable

The key is to turn hunting into a repeatable service motion. CTI intake, prioritization, ATT&CK mapping, hunt generation, saved evidence, triage, and reporting should follow the same review path for every customer while still allowing customer-specific tuning.

Use CTI as the service trigger

Instead of waiting for alerts, MSPs can use fresh CTI, KEV updates, EDR context, and customer exposure to decide which hunts are worth running. Threat Foundry helps structure this by ranking intelligence and preserving analyst review before hunts become customer work.

Package outcomes, not queries

Customers do not need a pile of raw queries. They need to know what was hunted, why it mattered, what evidence came back, what was ruled out, and what should happen next. Saved hunts, triage states, and reporting views turn the work into a defensible service deliverable.

Where to start

Start with a small set of recurring hunt themes: credential access, PowerShell abuse, suspicious remote access, exposed critical assets, and KEV-driven activity. Build service tiers around frequency, reporting depth, and response handoff rather than promising unlimited custom analysis.

Build a repeatable managed hunt service around reviewed CTI and customer-ready evidence.