Conventional security products like Firewalls, endpoint security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Sandboxing, and SIEM solutions may be unable to detect or prevent sophisticated and targeted attacks. 

Threat Hunting is a method of proactively looking across networks to identify and eliminate advanced threats that evade current cyber security solutions with the aid of specialized technologies. Present day threat hunting is based on automated tools and manual analysis to identify potential threats such as Advanced Persistent Threats, Evasive Malware, etc by leveraging machine learning and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).

Cyber Threat Hunters look for Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) from various threat intelligence feeds within the systems present in the network. It involves :