Hunt & Hackett Joins Security Delta (HSD) as a Premium Partner!

They believe that organisations need more than technology alone to withstand today’s cyber threats: they need to understand the threats they face, identify how attackers could gain access and move through their environment, and continuously test whether their security measures work in practice.

From prevention to response

Hunt & Hackett works with organisations that could face targeted or semi-targeted attacks, helping them prevent, detect and manage cyber threats. Its approach often begins with a Security Program Gap Assessment, which provides insight into an organisation’s current resilience, critical systems and most significant risks. Based on this assessment, Hunt & Hackett helps organisations design and improve a security strategy tailored to their specific threat landscape.

Through Managed Detection & Response, the company monitors IT and, where required, OT environments around the clock. Rather than focusing solely on individual alerts, its analysts take a threat- and scenario-driven approach. Signals from identities, endpoints, networks, cloud environments and critical systems are correlated to identify potential attack paths and uncover blind spots in detection, data and processes.

This approach is complemented by Incident Response Retainers, ensuring that organisations can access specialist support immediately when an incident occurs. Hunt & Hackett supports clients throughout the incident lifecycle, from investigating what happened and containing the attack to crisis management, recovery and long-term improvement.

“Cyber resilience is about much more than technology. For organisations with significant economic, societal or strategic importance, cyber security is closely connected to business continuity, supply-chain dependencies and economic security.”

A natural connection with HSD

Hunt & Hackett’s relationship with HSD developed naturally through existing network contacts and HSD’s role in bringing together public, private and knowledge organisations around concrete security challenges. Hunt & Hackett recognised clear links between HSD’s sector-focused initiatives, including the Cyber Resilience Centres for the Greenport and manufacturing industries, and its own expertise in threat intelligence, security operations and incident response.

The shared ambition to make organisations more resilient in practice ultimately led to Hunt & Hackett joining HSD as a Premium Partner.

“We believe that cyber resilience requires collaboration. Threats do not affect individual organisations in isolation; they can impact entire sectors, supply chains and wider public interests. That is why it is important to us to share knowledge and practical experience with businesses, government organisations and knowledge institutions.”

As a premium partner, Hunt & Hackett sees an opportunity to contribute actively to the HSD ecosystem through knowledge sharing, sector-focused events and collaboration around concrete cyber resilience challenges.

Bringing real-world cyber expertise to the security cluster

One of Hunt & Hackett’s key contributions to the HSD community will be its practical experience from security operations, incident response and threat intelligence. The company brings first-hand insight into how attackers operate, which attack paths they use, where organisations are often vulnerable and how organisations can better protect themselves. This practical perspective is also central to what Hunt & Hackett sees as its distinction within the cybersecurity market.

Rather than focusing primarily on processing individual security alerts, the company starts by asking which threats are genuinely relevant to an organisation. Which business-critical systems need to be protected? Which adversaries could pose a risk? Through which routes could they gain access and move through the environment? By connecting signals across identities, endpoints, networks, cloud environments and critical systems, Hunt & Hackett aims to provide organisations with a more complete understanding of potential attacker activity. Its investigations look beyond whether an alert has been triggered, examining what happened before it, what the potential impact could be and which traces an attacker may have left behind.

Within the HSD community, Hunt & Hackett aims to make this expertise as practical as possible: by interpreting emerging threats, providing clear courses of action and helping organisations improve their security in a targeted and demonstrable way.

A changing threat landscape

According to Hunt & Hackett, one of the major challenges facing organisations is the increasing abuse of identities, legitimate access and existing relationships within supply chains.

At the same time, the digital attack surface continues to expand. Cloud environments, SaaS applications, AI tools, external suppliers, hybrid working and OT environments all make it more difficult for organisations to maintain a complete overview of their security posture.

Hunt & Hackett also sees a need to bring security, compliance and business continuity closer together. Organisations must not only be able to detect and respond to attacks, but also demonstrate what happened, which decisions were made and how their resilience has improved as a result.

The company works with organisations where a cyber incident could have significant operational, financial, societal or reputational consequences. These often include organisations with complex IT and cloud environments, valuable intellectual property, critical supply-chain dependencies or essential business processes. There is also growing demand from organisations that need to demonstrate their resilience, whether as a result of regulation, the nature of their sector or the specific threats they face.

Sharing knowledge and exploring new challenges

Looking ahead, Hunt & Hackett is keen to develop new collaborations around concrete cybersecurity challenges, connecting technical expertise, threat intelligence and practical experience. One example is exploring the role and use of AI in cybersecurity.

The company also plans to share insights from its daily security practice more widely through content, events and collaborations. Within the HSD partnership, this includes contributing to sector-focused activities for the Greenport and manufacturing industries, participating in HSD Cafés, sharing knowledge through Security Insight and exploring opportunities for collaboration around threat intelligence.

For Hunt & Hackett, the value of threat intelligence lies not only in collecting information about threats, but in interpreting that information and making it accessible and actionable for organisations.

Looking ahead

Over the coming years, Hunt & Hackett aims to further strengthen its position as a cybersecurity partner for organisations preparing for sophisticated threats. The ambition is not simply to help organisations detect and respond to attacks, but to enable them to improve their resilience in a demonstrable and sustainable way. This means continuing to invest in Managed Detection & Response, Incident Response and threat intelligence, while also realistically testing the cyber resilience of organisations and sharing knowledge gained from day-to-day security operations.

Its partnership with HSD provides an opportunity to translate this ambition into concrete activities and collaborations.

“We hope the partnership shows that we are not joining HSD simply to participate, but to make a concrete contribution to the ecosystem. By sharing knowledge and working together on current cyber resilience challenges, we want to help organisations strengthen their digital resilience in practice.”

And when an organisation does find itself under attack, Hunt & Hackett has one final piece of advice: call them straight away!