The 2021 Threat Hunting Report explores the challenges, technology preferences, and benefits of threat hunting to gain deeper insights into the maturity and evolution of the security practice. Threat hunting continues to evolve as an innovative cybersecurity tactic that focues on proactively detecting and isolating Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that might otherwise go undetected by tradition, reactive security technologies.

This survey report focuses on the current trends in cybersecurity workforce development, staffing, cybersecurity budgets, threat landscape and cyber-maturity. The survey findings reinforce past reporting and, in certain instances, mirror prior year data. Staffing levels, ease of hiring and retention remain pain points across the globe, and declining optimism about cybersecurity budgets reversed course this year.