Threat Hunting 2018 Report
Based on a comprehensive survey of cyber security professionals in the 400,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn, Threat Hunting 2018 Report reveals that cyber threats continue to increase dramatically. The deployment of sophisticated threat search programs in security operations centers (SOCs) It can significantly improve detection rates and speed up time to detect, investigate, and remediate these threats.
Main trends of Threat hunting revealed in the study include:
- Threat management continues to challenge SOCs
– Advanced threat detection remains the key challenge for SOCs (55%), followed by a lack of security expertise (43%).
& #8211; 76% respondents feel that not enough time is spent looking for emerging and advanced threats in their SOC.
& #8211; Lack of budget (45%) remains the biggest barrier for SOCs that have not yet adopted aThreat hunting.
- Threat Hunting is Gaining Strength
& #8211; Organizations are increasingly using Threat hunting (40%), an increase of 5% over last year's survey. O Threat hunting is gaining momentum and organizations are investing in resources and budget to shift from reacting to attacks to building proactive Threat hunting and dedicated teams. Six out of 10 organizations in our survey are planning to build programs for Threat hunting in the next three years.
- Threat Hunting Brings Great Benefits
& #8211; Organizations are increasingly confident of the security team's ability to discover advanced attacks quickly compared to last year. One-third of respondents are confident of their team's skills, up 7 percentage points from last year. Threat Hunting tools improve threat detection and response speed by a factor of 2.5x compared to teams without dedicated threat hunting platforms. Key benefits that organizations derive from threat hunting include enhanced advanced threat detection (64%), followed by reduced investigation time (63%) and time savings without the need to manually correlate events (59%).
- Threat frequency and severity increases by over 100%
& #8211; Most 52% states that threats at least doubled last year. Based on this trend, the number of advanced and emerging threats will continue to outperform organizations' capabilities and personnel to address these threats.
- Top Threat Hunting Resources
& #8211; The resources of Threat hunting most important for cyber security professionals are threat intelligence (69%), followed by user and entity behavior detection (UEBA) (57%), automatic detection (56%), and automated machine learning. analyzes (55 percent).
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O Threat Hunting 2018 Report was produced in partnership with leading cyber security vendors Alert Logic, DomainTools, IBM Security, Infocyte, Raytheon, Sqrrl and STEALTHbits Technologies.
