EXPEL BLOG

Join Expel & Forrester for a discussion on threat hunting and detection

alt=""

MDR · 2 MIN READ · SCOUT SCHOLES · APR 21, 2025

TL;DR

  • Join Expel & Forrester on May 7 at 2pm ET for a live webinar discussing threat hunting and detection strategies (Register here)
  • Ansh Patnaik, VP of Product Management at Expel, and Jeff Pollard, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, will share insights on current trends in enterprise threat detection
  • You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how threat detection and threat hunting should work in parallel in your cybersecurity strategy

 

On May 7, 2025 at 2pm ET, join Expel’s Ansh Patnaik and Forrester’s Jeff Pollard for a live conversation on threat hunting and detection. Staying ahead of cyber threats and continuously improving your security maturity requires a proactive approach to threat detection and hunting, allowing them to work together in parallel. 

Jeff Pollard, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, will be sharing his point of view on industry enterprise trends, and Ansh Patnaik, VP of Product Management at Expel, will discuss Expel’s strategy for proactive and hypothesis-based threat hunting.

 

Homework before the conversation (don’t worry, it’s optional) 

This isn’t the first time we’re discussing all things threats and Forrester. Recently, Expel was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response Services, Q1 2025. We achieved a score of five out of five in fifteen service-related criteria, one being the Threat Hunting category. And if you want to set the mood for digging into this report, you can find our corresponding playlist here. 

Not in the mood for reading? We’ve got you covered there, too. After the latest Forrester Wave™ was published, some of our Expel experts hosted a session on LinkedIn, covering key findings (and why you should care). It’s a great precursor to this conversation with Forrester, and even touched on threat hunting. 

Here’s a taste of our threat hunting philosophy from that LinkedIn session, voiced by Lauren Horaist, Director of Product for MDR Services:

“When we talk about threat hunting, we [at Expel] have actually approached it from a true purist perspective. But it’s worth calling out that we see two distinct types of threat hunting. First, there’s what a purist might call threat search—that’s when we see trends around emerging attacks across the industry and proactively look for signs of those threats in customer environments. That’s the form of threat hunting most MDRs refer to, and it’s something we absolutely do. But what really sets us apart is our customized, hypothesis-driven approach. This is where we work directly with customers to understand their specific concerns. From there, we start asking targeted questions and digging into raw telemetry to investigate what matters most to them.”

 

Don’t forget to register

Register for the conversation here. Even if you can’t attend, be sure to register to get the recording dropped directly in your inbox.

Blog home