SearchOps: Log Hunter

Red Cyber Shield

About this game

SearchOps: Log Hunter is a vendor-neutral cybersecurity investigation game designed to help players practice log analysis, threat hunting, and evidence-building skills.

Step into the role of a security analyst and investigate simulated incidents using synthetic security logs. Examine authentication activity, endpoint telemetry, web traffic, cloud events, and other security data. Build search queries, isolate suspicious activity, identify affected users and systems, and submit your findings.

Each mission introduces a new investigation scenario and progressively more advanced search concepts.

FEATURES

• Investigate 10 structured cybersecurity missions
• Analyze realistic but completely synthetic security logs
• Write vendor-neutral security search queries
• Filter, sort, deduplicate, aggregate, and organize event data
• Practice field extraction, regular expressions, JSON parsing, and risk scoring
• Build evidence tables and reconstruct incident timelines
• Earn scores, stars, experience points, levels, streaks, and achievements
• Receive optional hints when an investigation becomes difficult
• Save mission progress to your SearchOps account
• Restore premium access when signed in on supported devices
• No advertising

FREE AND PREMIUM MISSIONS

Missions 1–3 are included at no charge.

Missions 4–10 are available through an optional one-time in-app purchase. The Full Analyst Campaign provides permanent access to the advanced mission set for the purchasing account. No subscription is required.

BUILT FOR LEARNING

SearchOps focuses on defensive investigation and analysis. It does not connect to real security systems, scan devices, access corporate networks, or execute offensive cybersecurity actions.

All logs, users, domains, IP addresses, organizations, and incident scenarios used in the game are fictional or synthetic and are provided for educational gameplay.

SearchOps uses a simplified, vendor-neutral search language created for the game. Its commands and behavior may differ from those used by commercial security platforms.

Investigate. Search. Defend.

Published by Red Cyber Shield Corp.

What’s new

Production release of SearchOps: Log Hunter.

Includes the first three cybersecurity investigation missions, synthetic event data, SPL-style search execution, scoring, hints, mission progression, and player progress tracking.