Threat Hunting

Our targeted Threat Hunting service proactively searches for cyber threats that are lurking undetected in your network. Cyber threat hunting digs deep to find malicious actors in your environment that have slipped past your initial endpoint security defenses. This process validates security controls and reduces dwell time of an adversary in your environment.

Threat hunting ensures you identify your adversaries early, how they infiltrated your system, and close those loopholes even before the attackers know you’re onto them.

Key benefits of threat hunting:

Improve response speed
Shorten investigation time
Deeper understanding of the organization
Minimize false positives
Staying Up-To-Date
Mitigates overall risk to the organization

Threat Hunting Tools

Our Threat Response experts use data from MDR, SIEM and security analytics tools as a foundation for a hunt. Using SIEM and MDR tools require that all essential sources and tools in an environment are integrated.

Managed detection and response (MDR)

MDR applies threat intelligence and proactive threat hunting to identifying and remediating advanced threats. This type of security solution can help reduce the dwell time of attacks and deliver fast, decisive responses to attacks within the network.

SIEM

Combining security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM), security information and event management (SIEM) offers real-time monitoring and analysis of events as well as tracking and logging of security data. SIEM can uncover user-behavior anomalies and other irregularities that provide essential leads for deeper investigation.

Security Analytics

Security analytics strives to go beyond basic SIEM systems to offer deeper insights into your security data. Combining the big data harvested by security technology with faster, more sophisticated, and more integrated machine learning and AI, security analytics can accelerate threat investigations by providing detailed observability data for cyberthreat hunting.

steps to hunt down cyber threats — Step 1: The Trigger A trigger points threat hunters to a specific system or area of the network for further investigation when advanced detection tools identify unusual actions that may indicate malicious activity. Often, a hypothesis about a new threat can be the trigger for proactive hunting. For example, a security team may search for advanced threats that use tools like fileless malware to evade existing defenses.

Step 2: Investigation During the investigation phase, the threat hunter uses technology such as EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) to take a deep dive into potential malicious compromise of a system. The investigation continues until either the activity is deemed benign, or a complete picture of the malicious behavior has been created.

Step 3: Resolution The resolution phase involves communicating relevant malicious activity intelligence to operations and security teams so they can respond to the incident and mitigate threats. The data gathered about both malicious and benign activity can be fed into automated technology to improve its effectiveness without further human intervention. Throughout this process, cyber threat hunters gather as much information as possible about an attacker’s actions, methods and goals. They also analyze collected data to determine trends in an organization’s security environment, eliminate current vulnerabilities and make predictions to enhance security in the future.

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