Grow an elite defensive team
Secure Pre-Vetted, Elite Defensive Cyber Talent
Recruitment by Practitioners
We Speak Your Language. We Know Your Mission.
As founders who spent years in the trenches as detection engineers and threat hunters, we found recruitment firms lacked the technical depth to filter for real-world competency. We built Direct Detect to solve that. We don't just vet keywords; we validate the tradecraft that cybersecurity leaders actually need.
Practitioner-Validated
Every candidate undergoes a technical deep-dive with our founders. We verify detection logic, query proficiency, and investigative mindset.
Active Talent Bench
We maintain an active community of pre-vetted specialists. This proactive approach enables us to fill critical roles in half the time of generalist firms.
Flexible Services
Whether you are filling one open role, hiring a detection team leader, or building an entire detection engineering function, we have a service model built for the situation. Contingent, Retained, and Team Build
Continuous Support
Our job isn't done at signature. We provide 90-day technical support for both client and candidate to ensure seamless onboarding.
Service Models
Our areas of expertise
Contingent Search
Standard model. No upfront cost.
You have an open Detection Engineer or Threat Hunter role. You need someone technically validated — not a pile of resumes from people who have 'SIEM experience.' That is exactly what Contingent Search is built for. Every candidate has been assessed on SIEM depth, detection rule authorship, MITRE ATT&CK fluency, hunting methodology, and scripting capability. You pay nothing until your hire starts.
Retained Search
For senior and leadership-level hires. Reserved. Dedicated. Thorough.
Some roles are too important for a contingency search. When you are hiring director or manager roles — you need a firm that will dedicate the search entirely to you and bring a practitioner's judgment to leadership-level evaluation. We assess not just a candidate's technical background but their detection philosophy, program-building track record, and ability to lead a technical team in a multi-client environment.
Team Build
Standing up a new team? We build it with you - start to finish.
You are building a detection engineering function or scaling a threat hunting team from the ground up. That requires more than a list of qualified candidates. We assess candidates individually and in relation to each other — mapping tool coverage, methodology, and experience level to ensure the team you hire functions as a team, not just a collection of technically qualified individuals.
