The Foundations of Threat Hunting

Chapter 8: Defending the Defenders

Now that all of the planning is done, it is a great time to remind everyone on the threat hunting team why they are there. At the most basic level, the goal of the team is to negatively impact a threat actor's day by disrupting, impeding, or completely negating their activities and potentially preventing the bad guys from achieving their long-term goals. This could mean impacting those threat actors with millions in lost revenue by removing accesses that could have taken years to establish or blocking the phishing email lures that were just discovered. With a hunt, you could find legacy threats that are still valid or a new threat.

At a minimum, the data the team will be accessing and recording must be protected ...