Proactive Threat Assessments
Summary: Volexity describes proactive threat assessments as hunting for signs of suspicious activity across a client's infrastructure using its investigative experience and threat intelligence sources, rather than a checkbox-style audit. In one case, a large defense contractor that had seen suspicious, unexplainable events on executive computers was found to have advanced actors operating undetected in its environment for over a year, and the engagement turned into incident response.
Key Takeaway: Advanced actors sat inside a defense contractor's environment for more than a year before anyone found them, and it took an outside team instrumenting the network to surface them. The question for your team is whether anything in your current visibility would have caught that year of activity sooner.
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