Hunting for Persistence Mechanisms in Windows When to Use - During periodic proactive threat hunts for dormant backdoors - After an incident to identify all persistence mechanisms an attacker planted - When investigating unusual services, scheduled tasks, or startup entries - When threat intel reports describe new persistence techniques in the wild - During security posture assessments to identify unauthorized persistent software Prerequisites - Sysmon deployed with Event IDs 12/13/14 (Registry), 19/20/21 (WMI), 1 (Process Creation) - Windows Security Event forwarding for 4697 (Service Instal…