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Silent Guardians: Advanced Threat Hunting in Critical Infrastructure

  • Critical infrastructure, vital for our world, faces growing cyber threats targeting life-sustaining systems.
  • Passive defense strategies are insufficient against sophisticated adversaries.
  • Threat hunters play a crucial role in proactively identifying and thwarting attacks.
  • Key drivers include creativity and precision in threat hunting.
  • Techniques such as Time Drift Detection and Firmware Integrity Validation are deployed.
  • ICS Command Frequency Heatmaps and Out-of-Band Wireless Scanning are used to detect anomalies.
  • USB Device Traps are employed to identify insider threats or malicious activities.
  • Threat hunting in critical infrastructure is a multi-tiered strategy to protect lives.
  • ICS threat hunters are more than technicians - they are strategists and scientists.
  • Global policy should mandate proactive threat detection in infrastructure.
  • Threat hunters face challenges in ICS/OT environments and play a vital role in defending civilization.

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