In 2017, the Information Security Community on LinkedIn conducted a comprehensive online research project to gain more insight into the state of threat hunting in security operation centers (SOCs). When the 330 respondents were asked what keeps them up at night, many comments revolved around a central theme of undetected threats slipping through an organization’s defenses. Many responses included “unknown” and “advanced” when describing threats, indicating the respondents understand the challenges and fear those emerging threats.

• Frequency of security threats in 2017
  
• The benefits of threat hunting platforms
  
• Overall confidence in an organizations' ability to uncover advanced threats