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Threat Hunters

Threat hunters are security professionals who proactively search for threats and vulnerabilities in an organization's systems and networks. They use a variety of tools and techniques to identify potential threats, investigate suspicious activity, and respond to security incidents.<br>https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/threat-hunting-training/

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Threat Hunters

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  1. TOP15INTERVIEW QUESTIONFOR THREATHUNTERS

  2. THREATHUNTERS Threat Hunting is the process of searching for cyber threats that are lurking undetectedinthenetwork,datasets,andendpoints.Theprocessinvolvesdigging Over time, threat hunting and incident response approaches have improved. Advancedmethodologiesarebeingusedbyorganizationstoidentifyrisksbyusing professionalthreathuntersevenbeforedamageorlossoccurs.OurThreatHunting Professional Online Training Course enhances your abilities and assists you in comprehendingthreatsandtheirgoals. ThreatHuntingProfessionalis anonlinetrainingcoursecreatedbyInfosecTrainthat teachesyouhowtoseekrisks proactivelyandbecomeabetter-balancedpenetra- tiontester.Ourskillededucators will teachyouthefundamentalsandproceduresof threathunting,aswellasstep-by-stepinstructionsforhuntingforthreatsacrossthe etwork www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com

  3. InfosecTrainhascreatedafewessentialinterview questions and answers that can help you in the interviews;herearethey: WhatisThreatHunting? Cyber threat hunting is a type of active cyber defense. It’s“thepracticeofscanningacrossnetworksproactively andrepeatedlytofindandidentifyadvancedthreats 1 CanyoudifferentiatebetweenThreatHunting andPenTesting? Pentestingrevealshowanadversarymightgetaccess toyourenvironment.Ithighlightsthedangersofnot protecting the environment by demonstrating how variousvulnerabilitiesmightbeexploitedandexposing riskyITpractices. IsitpossibletofindnothinginsomeThreat Huntingexercises? Yes, it is theoretically possible to find nothing in some threathuntingexercises,butitisnotacompletewasteof timebecausewemaydiscoverafewothervulnerabilities that we didn’t ever experience or thought existed. So, it is always good to conduct a thorough threat hunting processevenifwedon’tfindanypotentialthreats. www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 03

  4. 4Canweutilizewhat’sdetectedinthehuntto improveorganizations’security? Yes, without a doubt. Security teams can use the threat data obtained during a hunt to understand why they couldn’tdetectthethreatsandthendeviseastrategyfor detecting the suspicions in future attacks. Skilled hunters understandthatalargepartoftheirjobentailsgathering dangerdatathatcanbeutilizedtodevelopmorerobust, moreeffectivedefenses. WhatisMITREATT&CK? MITREATT&CK®meansMITREAdversarialTactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge, and it is a trademarkofMITRE(ATT&CK).TheMITREATT&CKframework is a collected body of knowledge and a paradigm for cyber adversary behavior, representing the many stages of an adversary’s attack life cycle and the technologies theyareknowntotarget. WhatistheuseofMitreATT&CK? Threathunters,redteamers,anddefendersusetheMITRE ATT&CKparadigmtoidentifycyberattacksbetterand evaluateanorganization’svulnerability. www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 04

  5. 7WhatarethedifferenttypesofThreat Huntingtechniques? DifferentThreatHuntingtechniquesare Target-Driven Technique-Driven VolumetricAnalysis FrequencyAnalysis ClusteringAnalysis GroupingAnalysis 8WhatistheprimarygoalofThreatHunting? Thepurposeofthreathuntingistokeepaneyeon everydayoperationsandtrafficacrossthenetwork, lookingforanyirregularitiesthatcouldleadtoa full-fledgedbreach. www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 05

  6. 10WhatisthedifferencebetweenThreatIntelligence andThreatHunting? Threathuntingandthreatintelligencearetwoseparate securitydisciplinesthatcancomplementeachother. Subscribing to a threat intelligence feed, on the other hand,doesnoteliminatetherequirementtothreathunt your network. Even if hazards haven’t been detected in thewild,acompetentthreathuntercandetectthem. CanyoudifferentiatebetweenIncidentResponse andThreatHunting? Threathuntingisahypothesis-drivenprocessthatinvolves looking for threats that have slipped through the cracks and are now lurking in the network. Incident response is a reactiveapproachthatoccurswhenanintrusiondetection system recognizes an issue and creates an alert, whereas threathuntingisaproactivestrategy. WhatisproactiveThreatHunting? The process of proactively exploring across networks or datasets to detect and respond to sophisticated cyberthreatsthatcircumventstandardrule,or signature-basedsecuritycontrolsisknownasproactive threathunting. www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 06

  7. 13DoyouthinkaThreatHuntermustexamine multipleareas? Yes,athreathunterandtherestoftheteamshouldbe lookingintovariousareas.Justbecauseyou’vecomeup with a certain theory doesn’t imply that you should limit yourinvestigationtothatregion.Rather,thethreathunter mustlookintootherareasinordertoacquireacomplete picture of your IT system. This includes your regular IT systems, virtual machines, servers, and even your production environment; make sure you have the appropriatebackupsinplaceinthesecases. 14WhatarethetwomostpopulartypesofThreat Huntingexercises? Continuous Monitoror TestingMode On-Demand Investigation Mode 1 2 www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 07

  8. 15Whatisdataleakage? Dataleakageisdefinedastheseparationordepartureofa datapacketfromthelocationwhere itwassupposedtobe keptintechnicalterms,particularlyas itrelatestothethreat hunter. www.infosectrain.com|sales@infosectrain.com 08

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