NCSC Urges UK Organizations to Enhance Observability and Threat Hunting
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The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has called for improved observability and threat hunting across UK organizations to bolster national cyber resilience. The NCSC's CTO, Ollie Whitehouse, highlighted significant variation in capabilities and emphasized the interdependence of observability and threat hunting. Effective threat hunting requires comprehensive visibility into all aspects of an organization's IT environment, including networks, devices, applications, and cloud services. The NCSC provided guidance on improving observability and threat hunting, including maximizing visibility, encouraging vendor compliance with monitoring guidelines, and moving beyond traditional indicators of compromise (IOCs) to focus on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
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09.10.2025 11:45 1 articles · 6d ago
NCSC Calls for Enhanced Observability and Threat Hunting
The NCSC has urged UK organizations to improve observability and threat hunting to strengthen national cyber resilience. The guidance emphasizes the importance of comprehensive visibility into IT environments and the need to move beyond traditional IOCs to focus on TTPs. The NCSC also advises organizations to maximize data visibility and encourage vendor compliance with monitoring guidelines.
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- NCSC: Observability and Threat Hunting Must Improve — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 09.10.2025 11:45
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The NCSC emphasizes that observability is fundamental to effective threat hunting.
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- NCSC: Observability and Threat Hunting Must Improve — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 09.10.2025 11:45
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Many organizations lack comprehensive visibility into their IT environments, complicating threat detection.
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- NCSC: Observability and Threat Hunting Must Improve — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 09.10.2025 11:45
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Shadow IT poses additional challenges to observability and threat hunting efforts.
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The NCSC advises organizations to maximize visibility across all assets and encourage vendors to support improved monitoring.
First reported: 09.10.2025 11:451 source, 1 articleShow sources
- NCSC: Observability and Threat Hunting Must Improve — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 09.10.2025 11:45
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Threat hunting should evolve beyond IOCs to focus on TTPs for more effective detection and response.
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- NCSC: Observability and Threat Hunting Must Improve — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 09.10.2025 11:45
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