It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided to an organization's security posture as a result of threat hunting.
This year's survey, “A SANS 2021 Survey: Threat Hunting in Uncertain Times," has a unique focus, one that's taken into consideration the impact of COVID-19 and how it's affected organizations' threat hunting. The findings indicate that the global pandemic has had a relatively mixed impact on the organizations surveyed, with many respondents unsure of what type of impact it's had — and will have — on their threat hunting efforts.
Here's a preview of the survey's findings and its takeaways for organizations navigating today's cybersecurity landscape.
Fewer organizations are performing threat hunting in 2021
According to the survey results, 12.6% fewer organizations are performing threat hunting in 2021 when compared to those surveyed in 2020. This is concerning, as threat hunting is an ever-evolving field, and organizations that don't dedicate resources to it won't be able to keep pace with the changes in tactics and techniques needed to find threat actors.
But what caused this dip? It seems to be a combination of organizations reducing their external spend with third parties and their overall internal staff in response to COVID-19. That said, this reduction cannot be fully accounted for by the pandemic.
Despite this decrease, there is good news: 93.1% of respondents indicated they have dedicated threat hunting staff, and the majority of respondents plan to increase spending on staffing a ..
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