Universities and research institutions are increasingly finding themselves on the front lines of global cyber conflict. A suspected state-aligned threat cluster, identified as UNK_MassTraction, has been actively exploiting critical flaws in webmail software across North American universities, with a highly targeted objective: siphoning credentials and deploying web shells to monitor administrators and professors involved in national security or advanced physics research. These are not smash-and-grab operations; they are patient, deeply embedded campaigns designed to maintain long-term persistence. Investigating these sophisticated threats is a massive data challenge — state-sponsored actors cover their tracks meticulously, meaning evidence is often buried under terabytes of historical, benign logs, and to root out actors like UNK_MassTraction, SOCs cannot rely on superficial scans. They must rapidly sift through vast amounts of historical data using complex, multi-stage investigative playbooks. Command Zero empowers organizations to execute these deep-dive investigations efficiently, linking disparate, low-level indicators over long time horizons to surface state-sponsored activity that would otherwise remain hidden in the noise of a massive academic network.