Getting the incident response team involved

We have already mentioned that there is an open discussion about whether the threat hunting team should be a full-time dedicated team or whether teams involved in Security Operations Center (SOC) or Incident Response (IR) practices should be the ones to dedicate part of their workload to hunting activities. There is not a perfect answer to this, since most of the time the outcome will depend on the size and budget of your organization. But, if your organization has the means to have a full-time dedicated hunting team, or if the team in charge of it is not the same as the one in charge of responding to the incidents, then when should the incident response team get involved?

The answer is pretty obvious: every time you detect activity that is actually malicious. The incident response team is the one in charge of reacting to the breach. The hunting team will help the incident response team by providing as much context as possible to the detected...