Help Net Security2026-09-25 05:00:56

Half of threat hunters say bad data is their biggest problem

Half of security professionals name data quality or quantity as their biggest barrier to effective threat hunting, according to the SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey.

Summary

Teams with working playbooks describe the logs as their ceiling, and gaps in cloud logging and identity telemetry come up most often. Gaps in the logs hurt most against the attackers respondents see most often, the ones who blend in with legitimate activity.

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This is a brief wire summary — the full story (linked below) has the complete details.

KazaSec's take

Most public cloud incidents trace back to a misconfiguration — an overly permissive IAM role, a storage bucket left open, a default setting nobody revisited — rather than a flaw in the cloud provider itself. A cloud security review is built to catch exactly that class of mistake before it's found the hard way.

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Source: Help Net Security
Published: 2026-09-25 05:00:56
Author: anamarija pogorelec
Category: technology

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