Scenario B – external threat hunt

As the team moves throughout the hunt, they're using the processes and procedures they've used for other clients and hunts without issue. CSI is a mature organization, so activities are well documented and easy to share with new employees and prospective clients to get approval. For CSI, procedures are not documented, but tactics and techniques are. Through the training and testing regimen of new employees, they're allowed to determine their own procedures and have to be able to explain them to their peers. This is done to ensure the employee can explain them to future clients as well.

During the early planning phase, these processes and procedures were presented to stakeholders in documents explaining what the engagement would entail. Each section had a header that covered the tactics they would be using and what it would target on a possible threat actor's side. Stakeholders were allowed to ask questions and decide which...