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Threat hunting

Threat hunting

From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 1 Threat Management

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Threat hunting

- [Narrator] The cybersecurity threat landscape has shifted significantly. Those of us who have been around the security field for awhile remember the days when we saw our primary role as building solid defenses that would prevent cyber intrusions from happening in the first place. Today we'd consider it naive to believe that we could prevent every possible type of attack from occurring. We know that today's threat landscape includes sophisticated attackers who have the resources and the time available to bypass many of the security controls that we put in place to defend our organizations. Our base assumption has changed. Instead of thinking that we can defend against every possible attack, we now take a view known as the assumption of compromise. If we accept it as a given that attackers may have already established a foothold on our networks, we have the responsibility to search out and eliminate those compromises.…

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