Threat Hunting
Threat hunting in cybersecurity is a proactive approach to detecting and mitigating cyber threats within an organization’s network.
Rather than waiting for indicators of compromise (IoCs) or alerts from security tools, threat hunting involves actively searching for signs of malicious activity that may have evaded traditional security measures. It involves human-driven, iterative searches through networks, Endpoints, or datasets to detect malicious activities that automated tools may have missed.
Step-by-Step Cyber Threat Hunting
Threat hunting services use a variety of techniques to detect potential threats, including hypothesis-driven investigation, optimizing security technologies, reviewing and applying threat intelligence, integrating new sources of telemetry, configuring custom rulesets and watchlists, and performing root cause and kill chain analysis.
- Determining Objectives
- Collecting Data and Defining Normal
- Triggering Alarms
- Developing Hypotheses
- Investigation
- Response
- Automating Routine Tasks