Why your SOC requires a proactive threat hunting approach and how Sumeru can help?
In this brief guide, I will talk about why SOC alone is not enough to protect your organisations from internal intrusions.
Let’s start with understanding Threat Hunting.
Understanding Threat Hunting
Threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching for cyber threats that are lurking undetected in your network.
Average Time to Identify a Breach
Pay attention to the above stats and you’ll realise that a proactive approach is much better than trying to cure the data leaks through internal intrusion.
Why SOC alone is not enough anymore?
- Security operations centre is a good starting point to detect internal threats. But it won’t provide an accurate view of the security in your organisations.
- A reactive approach on threats may become the hindrance between the successful threat detection & remediation and the unsuccessful one.
- Some threats may not register at SOC. You need to be proactive enough to hunt for them beforehand and take necessary measures.
- Threat hunting (a proactive approach to create hypothesis & detect unknown threats) along with SOC (a reactive approach) may work as a wonderful combination.
- Since the nature of malware is constantly evolving, having a threat-hunting service will always be on a hunt for new malware in your networking system
Why Threat Hunting?
Here are the reasons for which you must conduct Threat Hunting -
- Proactive discovery and removal of any signs of threats in the environment
- In depth visibility into the different threat vectors in the environment
- Insights into attackers, their motivation, their methods, and tools
- Helps you understand the impact of any discovered breach
- Reduces both mean time to detect & mean time to respond to threats
- Instead of reacting to threats, threat hunting acts before the threats are lurking in your system so as to make threat hunting a superior version of SOC
Sumeru’s Approach to Threat Hunting
Sumeru takes Threat Hunting to a notch higher. Here’s how -
- Developing the investigation scenarios
- Gathering the data from various sources
- Testing the scenario
- Execute threat hunting
- Reporting and analysis
Threat Hunting Loop
Threat hunting loop is a proactive formal cyber threat hunting process to avoid one-off, potentially ineffective ‘hunting trips’ and turn threat hunting into a solid habit.
Hypothesis:
A hypothesis directs Sumeru’s threat hunters to a particular system or area of network for further investigation when advanced detection tools identify abnormal actions that may point out to malicious activity.
Investigation:
During the investigation phase, Threat hunters of Sumeru use advanced detection tool to take a deep dive into potential malicious compromise of a system.
The investigation continues until a complete picture of the malicious activity comes to the surface.
Resolution:
In the resolution stage, Sumeru’s threat hunters communicate the relevant malicious activity intelligence to security teams so that they can respond to the incident & mitigate threats.
Why Use Sumeru’s Threat Hunting?
- Hypothesis-driven: Unlike an alert-driven investigation, our threat hunting is a proactive activity that begins with a hypothesis to verify (hypothesis-driven).
- Solid Team: Team of offensive security professionals with deep understanding of cyber threats and the tactics, techniques and procedures of criminal adversaries.
- Reach to roots: We don’t just hunt the threats we also investigate their root cause and provide mitigation steps to prevents such threats in the future.
How to protect your fort with 360-degree security?
Here’s this beautiful combination that will help you protect your fort with 360-degree security -
To keep the cybercriminals at bay, take charge of your insider threats (Threat Hunting) and also external attack surface (Threat Meter).
This 360-degree security will provide you with a solid security posture.
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