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Threat Hunting

Leave Threats Nowhere to Hide

Did you know that the average time to detect a security breach is 212 days? Did you know that it takes 75 days on average to contain the incident once detected? The longer the threat lifecycle is, the bigger the cost of the incident. This teaches us that proactively hunting for threats is essential in any robust cybersecurity program.


A Top Security Initiative ― Many Barriers

Establishing a threat hunting program in-house comes with many challenges.

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What and how to automate analytics for proactive and fast detection can be only led by experienced hunters
The lack of systematization inhibits the chance to succeed against well-resourced threats
When it comes to hunting, long-term, detailed telemetry provides the visibility for immediate analysis
The massive amount of telemetry has to be enriched, correlated, and mined quickly with security analytics for signs of attack
In-house hunters, automated processes and tools require an investment that is out of reach for most organizations

Proactive Threat Hunting Operations

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Analytics-Driven Approach

It uses statistical methods to detect something that hasn’t been seen before or irregularities in baseline data in the environment.

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Hypothesis-Based Approach

It’s performed by hunters thinking like the adversary. It involves developing and testing theories about where and how a determined attacker might attempt to operate unseen.

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Intelligence-Based Approach

It leverages up-to-the-minute threat intelligence to search historical data for signals of intrusion. Indicators of compromise (IoCs) are a good starting point, although it should not be limited to them but extended to behaviors associated with a specific threat or group of threats.

Proactive threat hunting boosts the overall security posture by:

  • Reducing the probability of being compromised
  • Uncovering ongoing threats swiftly
  • Accelerating the response
  • Reducing the incident and recovery cost
  • Identifying security gaps and misconfigurations
  • Creating recommendations for attack-surface reduction plans

Read this eBook to deep dive into the threat hunting process, better understand the pros and cons of hunting and learn alternative ways to do it.

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87%

of organizations agree that threat hunting should be a top security initiative

Businesses of all sizes agree that they should hunt for active or dormant threats in their environments that have bypassed security controls

Pulse survey, November 2021

53%

of organizations plan to adopt threat hunting in the next 12 months

By proactively hunting for threats, they will be able to reduce the time to detect threats, accelerate the response and minimize the incident costs

Pulse survey, November 2021

65%

of the organizations indicated that limitations of their tools or technology are barriers

Threat hunting comes with many challenges that could frustrate the initiative: limitations of existing tools or technology, lack of expertise, too much data to process

Pulse survey, November 2021

51%

of the organizations face or have faced barriers due to a lack of security skills

For this reason, most companies and partners delegate, at least partially, the threat hunting service to their managed security provider

Pulse survey, November 2021
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Every Organization Is a Target, Regardless of Size, Industry, or Location

Threat hunting is a discipline that organizations need to consider as a must-have. It should be a continuous function, not a point in time. Maintaining the practice consistently for a long time without any external support tends to be out of reach for even the most proficient security teams. How are IT leaders approaching these challenges? Pulse and WatchGuard surveyed 100 IT leaders to find out.

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4 Threat Hunting Paths You Should Appraise

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Threat Hunting as a Service

The Threat Hunting Service in WatchGuard EDR and WatchGuard EPDR uncovers threats lurking in endpoints by spotting a set of deterministic indicators of attack (IoAs). Actionable guidelines, provided in those products, enable you to quickly respond to threats with confidence.

Elevate Your Services, Hunt for Threats >

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Search for Undetected Threats

Additionally, WatchGuard Advanced EDR and EPDR enable security teams to assess their environments for emerging threats by searching for OSINT (Open-Source INTelligence) or privately sourced IoCs – hashes, filename, path, domain, IP, and Yara rules. Analysts can contain the spread of risk if a compromise is detected by isolating affected endpoints from the network while eradicating and recovering from the incident.

Be Prepared to Respond to Emerging Harmful Threats >

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Delegate to Threat Hunting Experts

WatchGuard threat hunters constantly monitor endpoint activity, investigating every weak signal of abnormal behavior and uncovering more threats as soon as they show suspicious activity. You are backed by our hunters, who immediately provide you with detailed, actionable reports to respond to. Monthly reports are shareable proof of your diligence in hunting threats.

Professionalize Your Hunting Service Without Hiring Scarce Hunters >

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Elevate Your Threat Hunting with Automation

WatchGuard Orion is a Cloud-based multi-tenant threat hunting and incident management platform that uses machine learning to empower security analysts to uncover unknown threats, investigate suspicious activity, and respond quickly to incidents. Its built-in queries and hunting rules help SOCs ask the right questions to find issues in the enriched 365-day telemetry, create hypotheses, and run detailed investigations.

Empower Your SOC Hunters >

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