Brief: Copilot for Security as a Tool for Threat Hunting
Brief: Copilot for Security as a Tool for Threat Hunting
Copilot for Security can help overcome many of the challenges that Threat Hunting represents and allow organizations to get back to actually doing it.
NOTE: There’s a longer article on this topic and an event session I’ll be putting together to deliver in the coming months, but I wanted to lay the groundwork here for what’s to come and talk about how Copilot for Security will drive even better efficiency for threat hunting operations.
Threat hunting is the proactive process of searching for cyber threats that are hidden, unknown, or undetected in a network or system. Unlike traditional security methods that rely on alerts or signatures, threat hunting involves actively looking for signs of compromise or malicious activity using various tools, techniques, and hypotheses. Threat hunting is an essential practice for enhancing the security posture and resilience of any organization.
Benefits of Threat Hunting
Threat hunting can provide many benefits for cybersecurity, such as:
Reducing the dwell time of attackers, which is the time between the initial breach and the detection of the incident.
Preventing or minimizing the damage and impact of a breach, such as data loss, reputation harm, or financial loss.
Improving the detection and response capabilities of the security team, by identifying gaps, weaknesses, or blind spots in the existing defenses.
Enhancing the threat intelligence and situational awareness of the organization, by discovering new or emerging threats, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries.
Increasing the confidence and trust of the stakeholders, customers, and partners, by demonstrating a proactive and mature approach to cybersecurity.
Challenges of Threat Hunting
Threat hunting is not without its challenges, such as:
Requiring a high level of skill, experience, and knowledge of the network, system, and threat landscape.
Consuming a significant amount of time, resources, and tools, which may not be available or affordable for some organizations.
Generating a lot of noise, false positives, or irrelevant findings, which may overwhelm or distract the security team.
Depending on the quality and quantity of the data sources, which may vary in accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
Facing resistance or skepticism from the management, who may not see the value or return on investment of threat hunting.
Threat hunting is a proactive and advanced cybersecurity practice that aims to uncover and eliminate hidden or unknown threats in a network or system. Threat hunting can provide many benefits for enhancing the security posture and resilience of an organization, but it also faces some challenges that need to be addressed. Threat hunting is not a one-time activity, but a continuous and iterative process that requires a skilled and dedicated security team, supported by the right tools, techniques, and data sources.
Copilot for Security as a Threat Hunting Tool
One of the ways to overcome the challenges and improve the threat hunting process is to use Copilot for Security, a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence and automation to assist security teams in finding and eliminating hidden threats. Copilot for Security can help organizations to:
Enhance the quality and quantity of the data sources by collecting and correlating data from various endpoints, network devices, cloud services, and external threat intelligence feeds, and enriching it with contextual and behavioral information.
Reduce the resistance or skepticism from the management by providing clear and actionable insights into the value and impact of threat hunting, such as the number and severity of threats detected, the risk reduction achieved, and the return on investment generated.
Enable organizations to add threat hunting to their security processes by offering a user-friendly and intuitive interface that guides security analysts through the different stages of threat hunting, from defining hypotheses, to querying and analyzing data, to validating and responding to threats.
Empower security teams to perform proactive and advanced threat hunting by using artificial intelligence and automation to generate smart hypotheses, suggest relevant queries, identify anomalies and patterns, prioritize, and score threats, and recommend remediation actions.
Copilot for Security can help organizations to transform their security posture from reactive to proactive, and to achieve higher levels of security maturity and resilience. By using Copilot for Security, organizations can benefit from the advantages of threat hunting without the drawbacks, and gain more visibility, control, and confidence over their network and system security.
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