Why threat hunting is more vital than ever [Q&A]

Mike Mitchell, VP of threat intelligence at Intel 471, has experienced the evolution of threat hunting first-hand as he's been in the industry for decades. MM: The start of threat hunting in the cybersecurity industry looked like threat intelligence when it first came on the scene; threat hunting was a niche concept that only Fortune 100 companies could afford. Due to the complexity of implementation, cost and talent acquisition, threat hunting was often outsourced to managed service providers (MSPs) and services companies. This trend is shifting back towards organization ownership of their logging, data and threat hunting resources as threat hunting is an integral part of organizations’ cybersecurity team. The intelligence team needs to talk to the threat hunting team; the incident response team needs to be involved, as well as the security operations center (SOC) team, to ensure threat hunting is successful across the organization.