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The Hunter's Paradox: Is it time to embrace automated threat hunting?

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Feed Name: Cisco Talos

Date Published: 2026-07-16

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

Author: David J. Bianco

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The author examines whether AI should drive threat hunting, arguing that while humans alone cannot keep up with scale and velocity, AI introduces trust problems because it can be misled by deceptive data. They propose reframing hunting around reasoning (not who performs it), and recommend cautious adoption via narrow scopes, strict access and audit controls, and graduated autonomy, with humans retaining strategic and creative responsibilities.

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