NewsAutonomy
Autonomous hunting announcements in 2026, grouped by what they change
Nine months of announcements, sorted by the part of the hunt they touch.
In one paragraph
Research notes go deeper than the guide on one question each. They are desk research from public sources, dated, with every source listed at the end. Vendors are quoted exactly and in alphabetical order, and no note ranks or scores anyone. Filter by tag to find notes on one theme.
Guide updated September 2026 · Autonomous Threat Hunting editors
TrialsHuman review
A two-week trial plan for an autonomous threat hunting system
What to set up, what to watch and what to break, in the order that gives you answers.
Vendor claimsAutonomy
Reading autonomy claims on vendor pages: five phrases and what they commit to
What the words on a product page promise about who starts a hunt, how far it goes and where a person steps in.
Vendor claimsBasics
Five myths about autonomous threat hunting, checked against vendor pages
What people assume about autonomous hunting, and what the vendors' own pages say.
CostBuying
What autonomous threat hunting vendors publish about price, and how to budget without it
No list prices are published. Here is what is, and how to build a budget anyway.
ATT&CKFrameworks
MITRE ATT&CK v19 and autonomous hunts: remapping after the Defense Evasion split
When the shared vocabulary changes, every automated mapping has to follow.
FrameworksATT&CK
Open frameworks for agentic hunting: Nebulock's ATHF, Sigma and ATT&CK
Three public resources that give hunting agents a method, a rule format and a shared vocabulary.
CostData access
Query cost and data scope when an agent hunts across your stack
Two questions that decide whether a trial becomes a deployment: what can the agent read, and who pays for what it runs.