Cybercrimes are increasing rigorously, along with advanced approaches and tricks used to identify vulnerabilities in the system. Even conducting the necessary testing, there can be a chance of undetected vulnerability that remains in the system for a long time. Such vulnerabilities create an attack surface that further allows attackers to exploit.

To identify such undetected vulnerabilities, threat hunters become the line of defense against cyber incidents, attacks, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). They play a crucial role in the organization in identifying such vulnerabilities in the system.

What is Threat Hunting?

Threat Hunting is a proactive approach used to identify unknown, undetected, and non-remediated cyber threats in the organization’s network. These threats can compromise the automated defense systems resulting in a cyber threat. Cyber threats are identified using threat hunting methodologies and techniques such as automated threat detection.

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