From the course: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA ) (CS0-003) Cert Prep: 1 Security Operations
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Threat hunting
From the course: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA ) (CS0-003) Cert Prep: 1 Security Operations
Threat hunting
- [Instructor] The cybersecurity threat landscape shifted significantly over the past few years. Those of us who have been around the security field for a while 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 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…
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