How to improve your threat hunting capabilities

Without going all Donald Rumsfeld on you, there are plenty of known unknowns and even unknown unknowns lurking and posing threats to security teams.

But we know you don't need us telling you about hidden risks - that's why we'll get straight into some solutions for you to consider.

Threat hunting is a proactive approach to security that involves searching for hidden threats that evade conventional detection solutions while assuming breach. Elastic recognise the importance of threat hunting in strengthening security defenses and are committed to facilitating this critical activity.

While they commit a substantial amount of time and effort towards building out resilient detections, they understand that alerting on malicious behavior is only one part of an effective overall strategy. Threat hunting moves the needle to the left, allowing for a more proactive approach to understanding and securing the environment.

The idea is that the rules and hunt queries will supplement each other in many ways. Most hunts also serve as great pivot points once an alert has triggered, as a powerful means to ascertain related details and paint a full picture. They are just as useful when it comes to triaging as proactively hunting.

Additionally, the Elastic Labs team often find themselves writing resilient and robust logic that just doesn’t meet the criteria for a rule, whether it is too noisy or not specific enough. This will serve as an additional means to preserve the value of these research outcomes in the form of these queries.

Read more about how to elevate your threat hunting with Elastic.