Threat hunting for home users and SMBs

Threat hunting for home users and SMBs is becoming essential as attackers increasingly target environments with limited security controls. Without EDR, SIEM, or centralized logging, defenders must rely on host-level visibility and behavioural analysis. A practical Windows-focused workflow: 1. Process analysis: Identify unsigned binaries, LOLBins, anomalous parent-child relationships, and processes executing from temp or user-writable directories. 2. Persistence review: Inspect scheduled tasks, services, Run/RunOnce keys, WMI subscriptions, and startup folders for new or modified entries. 3. Network telemetry: Examine outbound connections, DNS anomalies, beaconing patterns, and processes making unexpected network calls. 4. System modification review: Look for new accounts, privilege changes, security configuration drift, and recent software installations. 5. Script and PowerShell telemetry: Identify encoded commands, AMSI bypass attempts, suspicious module loads, and script execution from non-standard locations. 6. Correlation: Combine signals to identify multi-stage behaviours indicative of compromise. Sapience simplifies this workflow by aggregating process, network, persistence, and behavioural indicators into a single interface. It highlights anomalies and maps certain behaviours to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, making it easier for non-enterprise defenders to spot early indicators of compromise without parsing logs or using multiple admin tools.