Are You Looking for Ants or Termites?

This article clarifies the distinction between Incident Response and Threat Hunting: IR engagements focus on containing, eradicating, and remediating a specific incident within constrained time and scope, while Threat Hunting proactively looks for specific threat actors/TTPs or general signs of compromise across the environment; choose IR for active incidents, targeted hunts to look for known adversaries or techniques, and general hunts to search broadly for any attacker presence.