Sliding Scale of Cyber Security & Hunting Maturity Model

The Sliding Scale of Cyber Security, defines five phases of investments that organizations can make to contribute to cyber security.

These five sliding phases—architecture, passive defense, active defense, intelligence and offense are visualized in figure below

The Hunting Maturity Model focuses on three important concepts for hunting. Organizations need to be mindful of the quality of data they collect, the tools used to access and analyze the data, and the skills of the analysts who do the hunting.

The Hunting Maturity Model puts forth five different categories of an organization’s hunting capability: initial, minimal, procedural, innovative and leading as -

References –

The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of Effective Threat Hunting – SANS

“A Simple Hunting Maturity Model,” Enterprise Detection & Response

David Bianco, “A Simple Hunting Maturity Model,” Enterprise Detection & Response