The term “threat hunting” has been popular with marketers from security companies for about five years. Yesterday Anton Chuvakin asked about the origin of the term.
I appear to have written the first article describing threat hunting in any meaningful way. It was published in the July-August 2011 issue of Information Security Magazine and was called “Become a Hunter.” I wrote it in the spring of 2011, when I was director of incident response for GE-CIRT. Relevant excerpts include:
