This webcast was recorded in June 2022.
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Ever wonder what threat hunting is all about? Join Infosec Principal Cybersecurity Advisor Keatron Evans as he breaks down the basics of what it’s like to have a career hunting down potential cyber threats, including:
0:00 – What you need to know
1:30 – What is threat hunting?
4:32 – What skills do I need to start threat hunting?
5:45 – Is threat hunting valuable for level 1 SOC roles?
7:47 – Incident response vs. threat hunting
9:17 – Threat hunting concepts: data, baselines, threat intel
11:02 – 3 reasons to assume a data breach
12:20 – Zero-day vulnerabilities and threat hunting
13:40 – How long does it take to detect a breach?
15:42 – How to combat alert fatigue?
16:30 – Key components of threat hunting
18:05 – Beginner cyber threat hunting tools
20:08 – Artificial intelligence threat-hunting tools
22:00 – 5 steps to a mature threat-hunting process
24:05 – Step 1: Collect and process data
25:05 – Step 2: Establish a hypothesis
26:20 – Step 3: Hunt for threats
27:25 – Step 4: Identify threats
28:05 – Step 5: Respond
28:26 – Lessons learned
29:00 – Examples of a threat-hunting hypothesis
31:43 – Checklists for collecting data
33:05 – How to develop a hypothesis
36:10 – Best ways to store threat-hunting knowledge
37:15 – Thoughts on Maltego and PowerShell
39:10 – Where can I find slides and resources?
39:40 – How to encourage SOC analysts to go into threat hunting
40:46 – How to measure the ROI of threat hunting
43:19 – Threat-hunting frameworks and processes
44:58 – Cyber threat hunting boot camps and training
47:39 – How to get a free Infosec Skills account
50:15 – Threat hunting in a cloud environment
52:30 – Other questions and wrap up
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