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Cybersecurity is a game of cat and mouse. As a threat hunter, you’re the cat. “This role is close to that of a field biologist, as the threat hunter observes their prey – third party attackers – in the wild,” says Kayne McGladrey, director of information security services at Integral Partners, a cybersecurity firm whose specialty is identity and access management, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. “Threat hunters set traps and snares that appeal to (cybercriminals) and lead to fake computers where the threat hunter can monitor an attacker’s behavior before shutting down the breach.”

According to IEEE Member and Integral Partners Director of Information Security Services, Kayne McGladrey, healthcare sectors embody “Lean IT” as they are not in the cybersecurity line of business.

Cybersecurity in a Hyperconnected World: By Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Member, and Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum Senior Editor

Cybersecurity in a Hyperconnected World: By Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Member, and Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum Senior Editor

Although organizations believe the cloud to be inherently more secure, this two-step strategy will improve the security of cloud-based solutions for each organization. When combined with a larger cyber security program, these reduce the risks of a damaging breach.

“There are too few defenders to collect, process, and analyze the overwhelming amount of available data to produce threat intelligence,” McGladrey told HITInfrastruture.com. “The promise of machine learning is to allow computers to do what they do well, in automating the collection and processing of indicators of compromise, and analyzing those data against both known and emerging threats.”

The team at Aurora IT interviewed me for a feature-length podcast on cybersecurity. Listen to hear about third-party attacker tactics, managing cyber risk, multi-factor authentication, and why a lack of diversity is a threat to public safety.

For many organizations, analysts in security operations centers spend their days sifting through hoards of log files for suspicious activity. The repetitive nature of this work makes AI an ideal replacement, says Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Member, Director of Information Security Services at Integral Partners (US): “Artificial intelligence has been shown to be good at pattern recognition and correlation over a vast number of data points, and can make connections faster than human analysts would.”

McGladrey, whose work focuses on identity and access management, leads a team that assists clients in multiple industries. The focus: insider and outsider threats on non-privileged or privileged credentials. McGladrey said that technology has matured so much, that overall cyber security is not about software installation.