Threat Hunting: The Effective Methodology to Cyber Security

 

Attackers targets businesses of all sizes for a range of goals, from monetizing data to creating a political statement. If you think your enterprise is tiny to be targeted by threat performers, think again. Over 60% of enterprises have gone through an exploit or breach. The hidden and ever-emerging hacker may already be in your enterprise performing surveillance or looking for strategic command and control (C&C) instructions. Small and mid-sized enterprises are particularly at risk because of their minimal Security and IT resources and the avoiding nature of advanced constant threats. Businesses started to consider a proactive approach to threat hunting for the evolving threat and risk factors. Threat hunting is a proactive approach used in cybersecurity to detect abnormalities and threats before they turn into an attack.

 

Attackers are to the fore of the game: Nowadays, cyber-attacks are no longer just implemented to prove technical expertise and cause interruption but to monetize the cyber-attacks damages. Product companies, service companies, security firms, and CISOs actively release patches, new cyber defense products, and advanced SIEM use cases and responds to the evolving cyber threat. But the attackers always sound one step ahead in the cybersecurity world.

Network monitoring tool plays a vital role in monitoring the networks. The monitoring tool you choose should cope with your organization's security guidelines. Moreover, you cannot enjoy instant custom fixes unless you invest your time developing the tool yourself. Suppose you're searching for a flexible yet cost-effective network monitoring tool that delivers excellent automation; Sun Technologies' SNMT could be the solution. SNMT offers scalable network monitoring for your end-to-end network in an easy-to-use, automated, and rapid solution pattern.

Sun Technologies' Approach to Threat Hunting

Requirement Analysis 

We analyze, fine-tune, and examine the gathered requirements to make constant and explicit requirements. We review all the needs and deliver a graphical view of the complete system. We manage and process the data centrally to offer extensive understanding. 

Planning

Our planning phase incorporates the complete detailing of the suspected attacker's strategies, approaches, and procedures. Our experts build the roadmap to detect the threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits based on the goals.

Identify Threats

Hunting is done based on a prediction. It detects malicious activity, any disruptions, abnormal behavior, unusual port activity, and other IOC's. The threat hunters search between metadata and upgraded flow records using threat surveillance and packet-level data to achieve the goals.

Modern Technologies and Tools

We choose the appropriate technologies planned to hunt to the scoped environment, configure and tune them in this phase. We validate the predictions and identify threats.  

Security

We use automated security tools to sort out and reduce the threats. Sun Technologies' SNMT (Sun's Network Monitoring tool) helps you quickly identify and prevent problems and optimize your IT infrastructure. It makes the monitoring easier, 100% overview of devices, and resolves network issues.

 

Threat Hunting Benefits

• Cyber threat hunting helps you proactively expose security conflicts
• Finding the unknown threats enhances the velocity of threat response and minimizes the inspection time after a cyber-occurrence
• Help the enterprise improve the cyber defense systems
• Spot attempts to compromise your IT environment by advanced cyber attackers
• Maximizes the efficiency of the security operations center by minimizing the false positives and allows the SOC to label upcoming cyber incidents
• Increase confidence in your network robustness and data confidentiality
• Procure guidance on your Information Security strategy and related security controls to enhance the flexibility and security of your overall IT environment
• Get advice and suggestions on what actions to take to respond to and remove cybersecurity threats

Conclusion

While enterprises begin their hunting programs, it is essential to remember that hunt campaigns are more tool-driven than skill-driven. The hunt campaigns at the start produce more sound than news, but as the function matures, it fades away. So it's good for teams not to give up the initiative in the starting days. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is also used to obtain constant information updates from external sources about a given company. Finally, the keynote is that threat hunting is not a one-time static activity, and it should be a continual program that is ever emerging. Sun Technologies' team of hunters takes the perspective from the traditional way of handling security to the latest approach of being proactive and adaptive. And also allow enterprises to be cyber flexible by proactive detection and maturity to get robust security benefits.

Contact one of our Solutions Architect today to detect and remove threats efficiently and cost-effectively.