4 Threat Hunting Techniques to Prevent Bad Actors in 2024
Tech Republic – Nicole Rennolds
This article emphasizes the increasing sophistication of cybersecurity threats, such as no-code malware and AI-generated phishing campaigns, which have become prevalent in breaching company networks.
As traditional detection methods are failing to effectively protect networks, data, and users, security teams are urged to adopt a more proactive approach through threat hunting.
The importance of threat hunting is underscored, along with the value it brings in detecting advanced threats, closing detection gaps, minimizing attack duration, gaining insight into vulnerabilities, and meeting compliance and risk management requirements.
The article discusses popular threat hunting techniques, including human searching, clustering, grouping, and stacking/counting, and how these techniques provide proactive identification of vulnerabilities and malicious actors.
Moreover, various threat hunting solutions such as SIEM, XDR, MDR, and SOAR are listed.
The article emphasizes that implementing threat hunting techniques and solutions can help prevent breaches, limit the impact of successful attacks, and simplify compliance and risk management.
Link: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/threat-hunting-techniques