What is threat hunting?
Summary: Four Cisco security professionals discussed the basics of threat hunting, describing it as "searching for the unknown" and as hypothesis-driven work backed by current threat intelligence from Talos. The discussion also covered what organizations should hunt for and what they need in place to hunt properly, alongside Cisco Talos Incident Response services for reviewing networks and systems for indicators of compromise.
What's compelling: The piece frames threat hunting as hypothesis-driven rather than tool-driven, which puts the burden on defenders to form and test their own theories about what is hiding in their environment. Talos positions its incident response team to review specific areas of a network for indicators of compromise when internal hunting capacity falls short.
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