Threat Hunting: The Proactive Angle to Cyber Security

Threat hunting is a proactive approach that is being utilized in cyber security to detect anomalies and threats before they materialize into an attack. Attackers are ahead of the game: Cyber-attacks these days are no longer just executed to prove technical prowess and cause disruption, but to monetize the spoils from the cyber-attacks. Product companies, security firms and CISOs do respond to the growing cyber threat by actively releasing slew of patches; new cyber defense products; and increased/advanced SIEM use cases. Yet the attackers always seem to be one step ahead of the game in the cyber security world. This technical superiority to a large extent is attributable to a huge underground market place on the dark web that sells “do-it yourself hack kits” or “professional hackers on hire” who operate without geographical boundaries and offer non-conventional payment such as bitcoins to evade the gaze of law enforcement authorities. Current chinks in the cyber detection and defense armor.