BrandPost: Most Security Pros Wish Their Company Did More Threat Hunting. Here’s How They Can.

Cybersecurity Insiders just released the results of their survey about threat hunting practices. The results confirm that security professionals generally think threat hunting is a good idea and wish their organizations would be doing more proactive threat hunting than they are.

The results also highlighted a divide, or lack of clarity, in the definition of the term « threat hunting » itself. In the Cyber Security Insiders survey, 52% of respondents indicated that their threat hunting efforts were primarily proactive (commencing before any threat is detected) and 48% indicated a reactive approach (in response to a new or ongoing incident).

Moreover, 59% of respondents indicated Automatic Threat Detection as the most important feature for a threat hunting tool. This indicates that the respondent pool has a widely ranging view of what kind of activity can be considered « threat hunting » versus investigation, incident response, and other related activities.

Source : BrandPost: Most Security Pros Wish Their Company Did More Threat Hunting. Here’s How They Can.