DiscoverOut of the Woods: The Threat Hunting PodcastS3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches
S3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches

S3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches

Update: 2025-07-31
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Scott Poley and Tom Kostura are joined by Ben McGavin, Threat Hunting Team Lead at RSM Defense, and Justin Dolgos, Senior Threat Hunter at RSM Defense, for a conversation on what it takes to build and run a threat hunting program inside an MSSP.



They walk through how their team prioritizes hunts, manages detection logic across multi-tenant environments, and scales their approach through SoC collaboration and hypothesis-driven routines. Ben shares how the program was built from scratch, and Justin breaks down the lessons learned moving from alert triage into full-time threat hunting. They also cover tooling gaps, visibility challenges, and how custom detections have become a key success metric for their team.



This episode offers practical insight from two hunters operating at the heart of a fast-moving MSSP environment.



Watch this podcast on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/YQtmMomoUbU



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S3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches

S3 Ep38: Testimonial from the Trenches

Out of the Woods: The Threat Hunting Podcast