Threat hunting starts with a pretty paranoid premise: That your network may have already been breached and threat actors may be inside waiting for an opportunity to strike.<\/p>\n
Sadly, that turns out to be true in many cases. You can’t be paranoid enough when it comes to cybersecurity. And that’s why cyber threat hunting adds human and technical elements to cyber defenses to try to find signs that those cyber defenses may have already been breached.<\/p>\n
Whether done by an internal team or an outside service, threat hunting adds another layer to cybersecurity defenses by working together with threat detection and response tools to provide a more comprehensive approach to threat defense.<\/p>\n
As advanced persistent threats (APTs<\/a>) that dwell inside your network are capable of causing great damage, any organization with sensitive data should regularly engage in threat hunting.<\/p>\n Table of Contents<\/p>\n