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Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting - Second Edition
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Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting - Second Edition

by Valentina Costa-Gazcón
May 2026
Intermediate to advanced
311 pages
5h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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2 What Is Threat Hunting?

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In this chapter, we'll learn the basics of threat hunting: what is threat hunting? What skills do I need in order to be a threat hunter? What steps should I follow in order to carry out a hunt successfully? The answers to these questions are going to help us build a research environment and the hunting exercises we'll be carrying out in the following chapters.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • What is threat hunting?
  • The Threat Hunting Maturity Model
  • The threat hunting process
  • Building a hypothesis

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