Any organization, no matter its size, can be attacked by a malicious attacker to gain financial gain or access to information. This is a critical situation, and 68% believe that their cybersecurity risks are increasing. It is crucial to implement multiple threat monitoring strategies and mitigation strategies. Let’s now discuss incident response and threat hunting.

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Understanding Incident Response and Threat Hunting
Threat hunting and incident response are two emerging methods of threat monitoring and mitigation. These strategies allow an organization to be proactive and preventive against cyber threats, security breaches and system vulnerabilities.
Although the terms incident response and threat hunting are often used together, they have distinct meanings and approaches when it comes to cybersecurity in an enterprise.
Threat Hunting
Threat hunting is a cybersecurity activity that aims to detect and prevent malicious activity within an organization’s information system using advanced technologies and preventive techniques. It assumes that attackers have already taken advantage of the organization’s essential systems. This assumption is based on the fact that attackers have already found a way to avoid detection using existing tools and techniques. To eliminate these threats, it is essential to make an active effort.
Incident Response
Incident response is an organization’s method of responding to and managing a cyberattack. Cyberattacks or security breaches can cause chaos for customers, copyright issues, disruption in organizational resources, and degrading brand equity. Incident response is designed to minimize damage and get things back to normal as quickly as possible. A well-defined incident response plan can reduce damage from a security breach and save time and money.
Both incident response and threat hunting are both beneficial to any cybersecurity system. Threat hunting helps protect organizations from data theft and cyber attacks, while incident response helps them manage and mitigate those attacks.
Threat Hunting vs. Incident Response
The vulnerability assessment scenario is constantly changing, which has led to a dramatic rise in security breaches every day. These cyber attacks can cause severe financial and reputational damage to any organization. These cyber-attacks can cause damage to reputation and economic losses. The recovery process and the amount of money required to recover the organization are often enough to end it.
One way to protect yourself from long-term collapsing damage is to have a thorough threat hunting and incident response program. Let’s now look at the differences between incident response and threat hunting from multiple perspectives. GoalLet’s examine the goals of incident response and threat hunting.
Threat hunting is a type if activity that aims at finding insider risks or outside attackers. It proactively hunts for known adversaries and searches for hidden threats to prevent cyber attacks through active monitoring.
The incident response aims to restore normal corporate operations, minimize financial and reputational damage and repair cyber attacks. It also aims to increase cybersecurity to prevent future attacks.
2. Methodologies for Threat Hunting: There are three phases to threat hunting methods: An initial trigger phase, followed closely by an investigation and finally a resolution.
Trigger: Threat hunting can be a systematic process. The hunter-gathers information about the environment and formulates ideas about possible attacks. Finally, they choose a catalyst to conduct the investigation.
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