The final part of the book focuses on the long-term operation and optimization of your threat-hunting program. By now, you know to conduct hunts and apply advanced techniques. It’s time to ensure that your hunting practice is sustainable, measurable, and continuously improving.
Chapter 11 covers how to respond effectively to findings from your hunts. You’ll learn about incident-response best practices, including containment, eradication, recovery, and collaboration with other cybersecurity team members. Additionally, we’ll explore the importance of postincident analysis and see how to feed the lessons learned from each hunt back into your overall cybersecurity program.
Chapter 12 focuses on measuring the success and effectiveness of your threat-hunting efforts. You’ll learn about metrics you can use to assess the performance of both individual hunts and your threat-hunting practice. This chapter also covers the challenges of quantifying success in a proactive defense role and demonstrating value to key stakeholders in your organization.