Threat hunting

Cyber threat intelligence has been a key area of focus in organizations, and threat hunters perform an integral role in collecting it. Cyber threat hunters are cybersecurity professionals who continually look for threats that evade normal security solutions. Most of these threats are highly advanced and can foil the detection mechanisms of the currently available host, server, and network security systems. Thus, threat hunters are tasked with finding the more stealthy, sophisticated threats, hence giving companies a fighting chance against attackers like Carbanak, who stole 1 billion USD from dozens of banks in 2015 (for more information, view the Kaspersky report here: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/billion-dollar-apt-carbanak/7519/).

In the cybersecurity industry, the Pareto principle is fairly standard and can be applied to most scenarios. The Pareto principle specifies that 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes, highlighting an unequal relationship between...