Threat Hunting: Proactive Defense Techniques
Threat Hunting: Proactive Defense Techniques Threat hunting is a proactive practice where analysts search for signs of activity that bypassed automated alerts. It relies on curiosity and hypothesis-driven methods to uncover threats in real time before they can harm systems or data. A successful hunt starts with a clear hypothesis. Rather than waiting for a sensor to scream, you frame a plausible attacker behavior and look for weak signals that support or reject it. For example, you might hypothesize that an attacker uses legitimate tools to move inside the network, which could show up as unusual process creation, script activity after hours, or odd parent-child process chains. ...