Proactive Network
Threat Hunting.
Software that quickly exposes cyber threats on your network.
Act on insights derived from deep packet analysis. Hunt, find, and contain threats before they trigger alerts.
Built by threat hunters for threat hunters.
A Force Multiplier
Designed to boost network threat hunting productivity, the PacketWatch platform complements or replaces traditional SOC, SIEM, MSSP, and MDR solutions.

Superior Visibility
See everything on your network from an unbiased vantage point. Our passive network connection means the threat actors won't know we're recording their every move.

Full Packet Capture
Hunt threats with intelligence garnered from complete network packets, not snapshots or summary data. Filter and replay actual network activity retrospectively.

ML & AI Insights
Act quickly on sophisticated threats identified by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence analytics, insights, and Command & Control detections.

Intuitive, Chained Threat Hunts
Use your hunt hypothesis to build nested rules to filter suspicious network activities. Further query the results to pinpoint the items that require further investigation.

Adds Network Context
Properly resolve EDR and SIEM alerts with enhanced network data not available from NetFlow. View CrowdStrike Falcon information in a single, integrated dashboard.

Scalable Cloud-based Analysis
Quickly analyze massive amounts of enterprise network data in the cloud at scale. Gain immediate access to packet details, intelligence, and cloud-based insights.

Superior Visibility
See everything on your network from an unbiased vantage point. Our passive network connection means the threat actors won't know we're recording their every move.

Full Packet Capture
Hunt threats with intelligence garnered from complete network packets, not snapshots or summary data. Filter and replay actual network activity retrospectively.

ML & AI Insights
Act quickly on sophisticated threats identified by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence analytics, insights, and Command & Control detections.

Intuitive, Chained Threat Hunts
Use your hunt hypothesis to build nested rules to filter suspicious network activities. Further query the results to pinpoint the items that require further investigation.

Adds Network Context
Properly resolve EDR and SIEM alerts with enhanced network data not available from NetFlow. View CrowdStrike Falcon information in a single, integrated dashboard.

Scalable Cloud-based Analysis
Quickly analyze massive amounts of enterprise network data in the cloud at scale. Gain immediate access to packet details, intelligence, and cloud-based insights.

Network Threat Hunting
"For a threat actor to do the most damage in your environment, they can't sit still for too long.
Eventually, they will need to traverse your network, send and receive data, and attempt to infiltrate other devices.
A proactive network threat hunter using our platform will see those activities—like changes in network patterns, communications with a foreign country, and the malicious use of protocols."
Chuck Matthews
Chief Executive Officer
PacketWatch
Platform Capabilities
Gain superior network visibility with full packet capture, cloud-based analytics, and AI insights—results that NetFlow solutions simply cannot match.
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Capture Every Packet, Passively
Collectors capture full network packets at specific ingress and egress points. There is no impact on network performance, and no additional traffic is generated (e.g., pings). The connection for a physical network is a SPAN port. A cloud environment uses a virtual collector.
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Analyze Traffic in Real-time
Thoroughly examine each packet traversing your network. The cloud-based platform ingests and analyzes metadata from full packets captured by passive collectors (PCAP), delivering insights rapidly while storing high-fidelity data locally.
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Identify Network Anomalies
Receive a “hunt lead” when a new asset, IP address, connection, or conversation appears on your network. Utilize AI & ML to watch network activities and behaviors for things that are different or unusual.
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Ensure Complete Containment
Prevent endpoint reinfection by scouring your network and eradicating all instances of persistent malware that may be hiding and living off the land.
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Discover & Document Network Topologies
Map subnets, uncover stealth assets, and see communications patterns that weren’t previously visible.
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Customize Visualizations & Dashboards
Create custom dashboards, prioritizing the datasets and widgets that best fit your personal threat hunting workflow. Configure your visualizations following a guided process.
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Create High Fidelity C2 Hunt Leads
Begin your hypothesis-driven investigations with high-fidelity C2 “hunt leads” generated by AI & ML algorithms. Advanced pattern recognition calculates the likelihood that Command & Control (C2) communications are active on your network. Integrations provide threat intelligence and extensive DNS context for actionable clarity.
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Leverage Integrated Intelligence
With the most comprehensive network threat hunting dataset, the platform integrates threat intelligence from commercial, government, and proprietary sources, as well as industry-leading DNS history and reputation, to provide better context.
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Write, Store, and Share Complex Queries
Use the guided (wizard) interface to build complex filters without needing to know the specific query syntax. The user interface is optimized to accelerate the “hunt lead” process.
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Map MITRE ATT&CK Network Traffic
Use MITRE ATT&CK documented network traffic tactics, techniques, and procedures to create more effective threat hunts and predict adversary behaviors.
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Collect and Preserve Forensic Evidence
Export full packet capture files to serve as forensic evidence in legal proceedings. The PCAP files can be opened in an external viewer to show a third party the illicit actions taken during the cyber-attack campaign.
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Top Use Cases
Mature your security technology stack and fill the gaps in your cyber strategy with proactive network threat hunting. If it is happening on your network, we'll see and record it.
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Expose Persistent Threats
Most threat actors use Living Off the Land tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to masquerade as authorized users or legitimate tools, allowing them to carry out malicious cyberattacks that traditional defenses (e.g., EDR) can't see.
PacketWatch identifies when these users or tools behave differently or communicate with devices in an atypical manner. That suspicious activity becomes a "hunt lead" that will require further investigation.
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Reveal Command & Control (C2) Activities
When malware communicates with Command & Control (C2) servers, the data travels over the network. For devices that are not running EDR, this activity could go undetected.
PacketWatch watches the packets on your network and recognizes protocol anomalies, beaconing behaviors, DNS queries, unusual outbound connections, and data exfiltration. These activities typically indicate external communications with C2 servers and become a "hunt lead" requiring further analysis and DNS reputation testing.
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Identify Insider Threats
Detecting intentional and unintentional actions by authorized users is challenging with conventional host-based detection tools. While some behavioral activities might be spotted on the endpoint, understanding the user's complete sequence of events is essential to determine whether the activity is normal, accidental, or malicious.
The PacketWatch platform helps threat hunters investigate and document a user's endpoint and network activities. With CrowdStrike Falcon API integration, the known endpoint telemetry is available natively in the PacketWatch portal. Combining this data with the user’s network activities will show the various systems that the user accessed during and outside normal working hours.
During the investigation, the threat hunter can create nested rules to filter network and system activities, providing visibility into the specific time, data volume exfiltrated, and other activities executed.
PacketWatch's full packet capture features allow the threat hunter to rewind, replay, and export the user’s activities to PCAP files as admissible forensic evidence.
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Gain Visibility of IoT, OT, & Legacy Devices
Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and legacy systems (like Windows 98, Windows NT, etc.) have one thing in common. None of them can run commercially available endpoint detection and response (EDR) applications. This lack of security, visibility, and management makes these devices vulnerable to cyber campaigns.
Fortunately, PacketWatch regularly scans the network and subnets for these devices, then monitors and captures their related packet-level network activity. This provides threat hunters with complete visibility of all devices, whether they are running EDR or not.
If any device changes its typical behavior—such as communicating with new devices inside or outside the firewall, using new protocols or ports, or performing abnormal tasks—PacketWatch will create a "hunt lead" for further investigation.
For organizations that rely solely on EDR to protect their environment and devices, adding PacketWatch eliminates this gap in their cybersecurity strategy.
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Recognize Data Exfiltration
Threat actors are utilizing legitimate tools, common protocols, and standard ports to blend in and evade endpoint detection alerts. These techniques may fool many conventional cybersecurity defenses, but PacketWatch analyzes the network traffic looking for specific and malicious packet-level anomalies.
These anomalies then become high-fidelity “hunting leads” that analysts can investigate to determine the activity’s context, intent, and subsequent actions. Analysts can immediately contain any malicious activity.
Specific to data exfiltration, the PacketWatch platform is looking for the North-South movement of large amounts of data, particularly from machines that don’t typically send many or large files externally. The platform can also identify risky destinations either through integrated threat intelligence or by leveraging our integration with Validin for context-rich DNS data.
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Verify Compliance & Regulatory Requirements
Everyone follows your cyber policies, right? How would you know if they weren't? The PacketWatch platform provides a unique vantage point that shows you exactly what people are doing and who is not complying. We see everything that happens on your network. Whether you have selected NIST CSF, HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, or NERC-CIP, all have requirements that we can see and verify.
Your policy may restrict the use of certain applications, such as WhatsApp or other communication tools and instant messengers. PacketWatch can monitor all users sending and receiving data from those SaaS domains. Simply create a rule or combine several queries to filter your results, and your "hunting leads" or report will be generated automatically. Other applications that may have similar restrictions include large language models or Generative AI. PacketWatch can identify who is using these SaaS applications and how much data they are transmitting. More importantly, PacketWatch can prove that you are fully compliant and that no one is using these SaaS tools.
Another example of what PacketWatch can see is clear text transmissions. HIPAA and PCI DSS require that PHI/PII and credit card numbers be encrypted during transmission. PacketWatch can either identify when this data isn’t encrypted or confirm that all transmissions are compliant.
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Look for Evidence of Zero-Day Exploits
Every other week, the PacketWatch Threat Intelligence team publishes a Cyber Threat Intelligence report. Our analysts review this report with their managed clients. The report highlights what we are seeing in the wild and provides important information on how to protect your environment from falling victim to the latest Zero-Day cyber campaigns. Sometimes there are patches available; other times, they haven’t been released yet.
Even if a patch isn't available, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) documentation details many of the tactics, techniques, and procedures that threat actors are using to exploit environments. While you're waiting for a patch, the PacketWatch platform helps you hunt for evidence of a Zero-Day attack in your environment, so you can quickly contain the threat before it causes any damage.
The platform also helps identify when available patches haven't been installed.
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Hunt Across Cloud Environments
Cloud environments are everywhere. Although mainly virtual, they face many of the same security challenges as physical environments. This includes protecting servers, networks, storage, data, and users from threat hunters trying to exploit all of them.
PacketWatch virtual sensors capture packets from your software-defined networks, much like our traditional collectors operate in a physical network. However, for threat hunters, there is more freedom to hunt across cloud platforms like virtual private containers on AWS, Azure, and other public clouds.
Threat hunters using PacketWatch in a cloud environment focus on the same key areas—data crossing boundaries, malicious activities, user security and compliance, and connections to external locations. For the virtual server side of the cloud, we integrate with CrowdStrike Cloud Security Posture Management to collect telemetry and provide a unified threat hunting interface.
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Discover Network Subnets & Connections
Most segmented networks are poorly documented. They never seem to be configured as or work as people imagine they do. Network discovery helps threat hunters determine:
- How the subnets are configured?
- Which assets are on each subnet?
- Which assets and subnets are talking to each other?
PacketWatch passively collects, organizes, and displays all this network data without needing pings or causing performance issues. Seeing the network map visually helps threat hunters understand when boundaries are being crossed and where security needs to be strengthened.
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Track Lateral (East-West) Movement
Our emphasis on developing tools to track East-West lateral movement across networks stems from years of investigating complex incidents and cybersecurity breaches.
Hunting for the secondary and tertiary stages of an attack is crucial to ensuring all malicious code is contained and eradicated from an environment. This is not a typical feature of endpoint detection and response (EDR) software.
The ability to inspect Patient Zero (the initial point of compromise) and investigate every other asset they communicated with after a breach is a PacketWatch full packet capture superpower.
Massively Superior
If you intend to use network data for cybersecurity investigations and threat hunting, Full Packet Capture is significantly more comprehensive and accurate than NetFlow data, selective, or "smart" capture solutions.
As an analogy, NetFlow is like a phone bill. You will know when the communication occurred, the source and destination, the session length, and the total amount of data shared.
Selective or smart capture solutions only record the incident, ignoring any contextual data or activities that happened before and after, to reduce storage requirements.
Full Packet Capture (FPC) is the equivalent of a complete wiretap. You will know everything that was said or done. You’ll be able to rewind and replay the actual conversation, as well as everything that happened before and after.
The FPC information is more complete, including elements such as content, context, and intent. This additional data gives your team the confidence to decide if the communication was malicious. Most importantly, you can preserve and export the forensic data to submit as evidence in legal proceedings.
Solution Packages
From mid-sized businesses to enterprise organizations, PacketWatch cybersecurity solutions scale to match your requirements and available resources.
Fully Managed
Complete Managed Service
- SaaS Platform Access Available
- Fully Managed Threat Hunting
- Dedicated Security Analyst
- 24/7 Monitoring and Response
- Bi-Weekly Meetings & Quarterly Executive Reviews
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Co-Managed
Shared Responsibility
- SaaS Platform Access with Coaching
- Collaborative Threat Hunting
- Dedicated Security Analyst
- Onboarding & Advanced Training
- Priority Support
Self-Managed
Full Platform Control
- Complete SaaS Platform Access
- Self-service Deployment
- Standard Documentation
- Basic Training
- Premium Services Available
Expert Services
See your network from a new perspective. Professional Services powered by the PacketWatch platform give you packet-level detail, AI insights, and expert analysis on a project basis.
Incident Response
Rapid response to complex cybersecurity incidents with expert analysis and remediation using full packet capture capabilities.
- 24/7 Emergency Response
- Threat Actor Identification
- Threat Containment and Eradication
Digital Forensics
In-depth digital forensic investigations that collect and preserve packet-level evidence for reconstruction and legal requirements.
- Network Traffic Analysis
- Timeline Reconstruction
- Expert Witness Testimony
Security Assessment
Provides a comprehensive view of your enterprise IT and Security environments, validates controls, and uncovers risks.
- Capture a Complete Business Cycle
- Identify Cybersecurity Gaps
- Receive a Roadmap for Improvement
Managed Threat Hunting
Dedicated analysts proactively scour your network at the packet-level for anomolies and advanced persistent threats using hypothesis-based scenarios and threat intelligence.
- 24/7 Continuous Monitoring
- Find and Contain Threats
- Augments Existing Security Team
Advisory Services
Strategic advice, recommendations, and best practices from former Military and Federal Law Enforcement security leaders who specialize in incident response and security operations.
- Strategy Development and Consulting
- Incident Response Planning
- Cybersecurity Program Optimization
M&A Due Diligence
A comprehensive suite of seven (7) cybersecurity due diligence services that help buyers and sellers assess their security posture thoroughly.
- Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
- Compromise Assessment and Threat Hunting
- Security Controls Validation
Trusted for Our Approach
See your network from a different perspective. PacketWatch is crafted by expert threat hunters who’ve investigated hundreds of complex incidents.
"PacketWatch’s investigations are thorough, and their final reports are written so that both expert and non-technical members of a company’s incident response team can make use of their findings."
Global Compliance Partner
Law Firm
"PacketWatch’s incident response partnership with CrowdStrike solidified our initial decision. The whole team is responsive and refreshingly approachable."
Chief Information Security Officer
Hospitality Gaming Company
"Adding PacketWatch to our existing environment is an absolute upgrade. We now have incredible visibility into our network."
Director, IT Operations
Food and Beverage Company
Resources & Insights
Learn from threat hunters on the front lines. Our experts share their perspectives, best practices, and experience with active threat campaigns.
CEO Vantage Point
Best Practices
4 min read
2025 Cybersecurity Threats
Jun 9, 2025 by Todd Welfelt and John Garner
Threat Intelligence
6 min read
Cyber Threat Intelligence Report
Jun 30, 2025 by The PacketWatch Intelligence Team
Leadership Team
PacketWatch was founded by a team of cybersecurity veterans with over 150 years of combined experience including former Military, Federal Law Enforcement, and Fortune 500 security leaders.
We created PacketWatch to solve 3 persistent cybersecurity problems:
- Lack of Network Visibility
- Gaps in Critical Cyber Skills
- Growing Speed of Attacks using AI
PacketWatch facilitates a shift to proactive cybersecurity with a platform designed for threat hunters by actual threat hunters, speeding response, and vastly improving network visibility.
Battle-hardened Incident Responders and Threat Hunters
Trusted by CrowdStrike to deliver Incident Response services to their Customers.
Dedicated analysts learn and understand your business and security program.

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