A PUBLICATION BY
tyler cybersecurity
THE SAGE ADVICE GUIDE TO
Cyber Threat Hunting
, WHAT IS CYBER THREAT HUNTING?
SANS defines threat hunting as a focused and iterative approach to searching out,
identifying, and understanding adversaries internal to the defender’s networks.
It’s a method of searching through networks and datasets to find advanced persistent
threats that evade existing security defenses.
Cybercriminals are extremely adept at obtaining access undetected. It’s pretty common for an organization to be
unaware of an intrusion for days, weeks, or even months.
As the number of successful cyberattacks continues to soar, it’s time to take a proactive stance to detect them.
When automated / preventative controls fail – and they will – organizations must rely on a detective control
competency that delivers a multi-disciplinary threat hunting capability across the enterprise.
You can’t simply sit back and wait for an automated alert to let you know you’ve been breached. You need to
actively seek out potentially malicious behavior on your network.
That’s why we’re seeing a shift to a more proactive approach... Cyber Threat Hunting.
Read this Cyber Threat Hunting Guide to learn:
• Who you’re hunting for and the techniques they use;
• The essential tools of a threat hunter;
• How threat hunting will benefit your organization; and
• How to leverage all the advantages of threat
hunting with a Managed Detection and
Response (MDR) service provider.
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tyler cybersecurity
THE SAGE ADVICE GUIDE TO
Cyber Threat Hunting
, WHAT IS CYBER THREAT HUNTING?
SANS defines threat hunting as a focused and iterative approach to searching out,
identifying, and understanding adversaries internal to the defender’s networks.
It’s a method of searching through networks and datasets to find advanced persistent
threats that evade existing security defenses.
Cybercriminals are extremely adept at obtaining access undetected. It’s pretty common for an organization to be
unaware of an intrusion for days, weeks, or even months.
As the number of successful cyberattacks continues to soar, it’s time to take a proactive stance to detect them.
When automated / preventative controls fail – and they will – organizations must rely on a detective control
competency that delivers a multi-disciplinary threat hunting capability across the enterprise.
You can’t simply sit back and wait for an automated alert to let you know you’ve been breached. You need to
actively seek out potentially malicious behavior on your network.
That’s why we’re seeing a shift to a more proactive approach... Cyber Threat Hunting.
Read this Cyber Threat Hunting Guide to learn:
• Who you’re hunting for and the techniques they use;
• The essential tools of a threat hunter;
• How threat hunting will benefit your organization; and
• How to leverage all the advantages of threat
hunting with a Managed Detection and
Response (MDR) service provider.
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