Threat Intelligence Advisory
An experienced threat hunter for the questions your existing tools do not answer cleanly.
Focused intelligence research, threat-hunt support, source triage, executive briefing, and special-project analysis delivered directly to the client’s security leadership.
Boutique support
Use DarkWater as a focused extension of the CSOC—not another managed platform.
Advisory work begins with a defined intelligence question, decision owner, available data, source boundaries, and required delivery date. The output can be a concise executive brief, technical findings memo, targeted threat-hunt plan, source-monitoring report, or recurring advisory cadence.
DarkWater is intentionally small and direct. The person scoping the question is the person reviewing the intelligence and briefing the client.
Common advisory engagements
Designed for difficult, time-sensitive, or under-owned intelligence questions.
Focused Threat Research
Actor, campaign, sector, geopolitical, vulnerability, or infrastructure research tied to a specific business question.
Threat-Hunt Development
Hypothesis development, source review, data requirements, query strategy, and findings interpretation using client-authorized environments and workflows.
Third-Party Event Triage
Independent review of vendor incidents, exposure claims, credentials, ransomware publications, and ongoing threat-source activity.
Executive Briefings
Plain-language summaries for CISOs, legal leaders, boards, and executives who need decisions rather than technical noise.
Special Monitoring
Time-bounded monitoring of selected domains, actors, channels, incidents, or business concerns with defined escalation.
Report Quality Review
Independent review of intelligence logic, source support, confidence, limitations, and executive readability.
Client integration
DarkWater works with the client’s process—not around it.
Advisory scopes can define security-team contacts, legal review, data-access restrictions, approved client tools, source-handling rules, report classification, and briefing cadence. Employer systems, subscriptions, and confidential information are never used for DarkWater engagements.
Typical outputs
- Executive intelligence brief
- Technical findings memorandum
- Threat-hunt hypothesis and query plan
- Source-monitoring report
- Incident or claim timeline
- Decision points and recommended actions
Advisory engagement
Bring one hard question.
DarkWater will help define the scope, identify what evidence is available, and recommend the clearest deliverable for the decision owner.