Threat hunting becomes critical to defeating cyber crime

Security company McAfee is using this week's Black Hat conference to release a new report examining the role of cyber threat hunting and the evolution of the security operations center (SOC). Among its findings are that on average, 71 percent of the most advanced SOCs closed incident investigations in less than a week and 37 percent closed threat investigations in less than 24 hours. Novice threat hunters only determine the cause of 20 percent of attacks, compared to leading hunters who are able to verify 90 percent. Threat hunters in more mature SOCs spend 50 percent more time on actual… [Continue Reading]