O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Threat hunting’s role in improving security posture, measuring threat hunting success, and the potential for automating threat hunting for the sake of efficiency and consistency.In this episode, I talk with Alex Pinto, chief data scientist at Niddel. We discuss the role of threat hunting in security, the necessity for well-defined process and documentation in threat hunting and other activities, and the potential for automating threat hunting using supervised machine learning.Here are some highlights: Threat hunting’s role in improved detection At the end of the day, threat hunting is proactively searching for malicious activity that your existing security tools and processes missed. In a way, it’s an evolution of the more traditional security monitoring and log analysis that organizations currently use. Experienced workers in security operation center environments or with managed security services providers might say, ‘Well, this is what I've been do