Threat hunting has moved to the top of the agenda for security professionals in response to ever-growing security challenges. About four-fifths of respondents predicted that threat hunting will be a top security initiative in 2017. A threat hunting platform can cut the amount of time it takes to discover a threat in half and accelerate investigation times by 42 percent. The majority of respondents reported low confidence in their companys capacity to discover advanced threats. In contrast, just 6 percent indicated full confidence in the ability of the company to deal with them.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/threat-hunting-is-a-top-security-priority-for-2017/