Autonomous vs. Automated Threat Hunting

March, 2022

When you are talking about effective threat hunting, automated is NOT the same as autonomous.

Automating investigation workflows so they can be done faster certainly helps, but it does not deliver the same aid and efficiency as autonomously running complete
investigations.

It’s the difference between someone making it faster for you to get responses to iterative questions versus someone handing you the final answer.

So, which tools will deliver autonomous capabilities to best support organizations as they up-level from reactive to proactive threat hunting?

"The 5 Elements of an Effective Threat Hunting Program" lays out a path for security teams, especially those that are under-resourced and overwhelmed, to employ the right strategies and acquire all the resources, including tools, to stand up a proactive threat hunting program in a matter of minutes.

Effective, autonomous threat hunting IS attainable.