In today’s world, it’s imperative for organizations to go beyond conventional detection technologies and adopt threat hunting as part of their security operations. Read on to know more…
Threat hunting continues to evolve for businesses focused on proactively discovering and mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that could otherwise go undetected by conventional, reactive security solutions.
While several Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are battling to keep up with the challenges of current cybersecurity threats, more enterprises are incorporating threat hunting into their process of security operations. They’re learning that proactive threat hunting can minimise security threats and its impact while also boosting defences against new forms of cyberattacks.
Why Additional Layer of Visibility
SOC teams must be aware of every conceivable security vulnerability in their system in order to anticipate the unknown and keep one step ahead of the attackers. Furthermore, as enterprises become more networked as a result of the installation of numerous IoT devices, security experts must be always be on their toes if they want to minimise the attacks.
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing employees to work remotely, more employees are relying on their vulnerable personal networks rather than their far more secure corporate networks.
Unfortunately, as networks become more sophisticated, SOC teams have less visibility, allowing attackers to sneak in and compromise systems undetected. Hence, in order to assure maximum security, it’s crucial to deploy visibility-enhancing technologies that rapidly adds the much-needed security visibility across all endpoints.
This implies that attackers will be on the lookout for new ways to exploit the security vulnerabilities, and SOC teams will have to stop the malicious hackers at every step in their efforts.
Expecting the Unexpected
When it comes to predicting the unexpected, cybersecurity analytics tools can capture data and detect evasive and malicious behaviour in real time, no matter where they are in the network. Security teams can proactively detect and mitigate malicious activity on a real-time basis by generating fine-grained security policies and enforcing them.
Since the security team will be able to view inside the network and secure them against threats across all attack surfaces across all managed endpoints with a unified multi-layer approach, hackers will have a tough time making lateral movements or remaining hidden in any part of the network with policy enforcement.
This includes formulation of security policy and enforcement of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) tools that can give a better understanding of the overall reliability, impact, and success of network systems, as well as their workload and behaviour, so that threats can be identified and respond quickly to protect the assets.
In practise, this implies that security teams can undertake measurable steps towards controlling system access of the network environment, such as knowing who is on the network, who should have access to what data and which applications, and being the detect to notice Indicators Of Compromise (IOC).
One Step Ahead of the Attackers
Threat hunting is a technique for staying one step ahead of the attackers. Through proatcive threat hunting, enterprises don’t have to wait for the notification of a data breach before acting on it.
Today, it’s critical to have a real-time view of the entire network, including the ability to extend these capabilities to teleworkers, so that malicious activities can be detected and mitigated before any damage is done.
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) can assure a strong and effective security posture by anticipating the unknown, having clear visibility into the security vulnerabilities that pose advanced threats, and identifying barriers that limit successful tracking and remediation with robust MDR tools at the core.