Akamai Hunt is a fully managed threat hunting service that proactively detects and eliminates evasive security threats in customer environments. The service is led by Akamai's expert security team and leverages data from Akamai Guardicore Segmentation infrastructure combined with Akamai's global threat intelligence gathered from delivering internet traffic worldwide. The service operates through a four-stage process: collecting data from customer environments and Akamai's platform, analyzing it using machine learning and AI with expert investigation, alerting customers with detailed real-time notifications, and assisting with incident response and remediation. Akamai Hunt requires Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to function, using its network flow visibility and telemetry as the foundation for threat detection. The service identifies ongoing attacks, exposed vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations without requiring additional network infrastructure changes or agent deployments. Customers receive instant notifications of critical incidents through the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation portal and email alerts. The Hunt team thoroughly investigates each incident before alerting customers to avoid false positives and alert fatigue, maintaining a baseline for healthy data center and cloud application communications. Key capabilities include eliminating present security threats through correlation of network flows with threat actor intelligence, virtually patching CVEs through segmentation policies when formal patches aren't viable, and hardening IT environments by identifying misconfigurations. The service provides monthly executive-level threat reports and ongoing security monitoring without disrupting business operations. Customers can realize value immediately after deploying Akamai Guardicore Segmentation agents, regardless of segmentation project completion status.