{"id":17787,"date":"2026-07-30T02:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netwitness.com\/?post_type=glossary&p=17787"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:48:37","slug":"threat-detection","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.netwitness.com\/it\/cyber-glossary\/threat-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is Threat Detection?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Threat detection is the practice of identifying, recognizing, and alerting on malicious activities, security incidents, cyberattacks, and indicators of compromise across organizational networks, systems, endpoints, cloud environments, and applications in real-time or near real-time through automated technologies, behavioral analysis, threat intelligence correlation, and expert analysis that enables rapid incident response before threats cause significant damage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This critical cybersecurity function combines multiple detection methods including signature-based analysis matching known malware signatures, behavioral-based detection identifying suspicious activities deviating from normal patterns, threat intelligence correlation with known indicators of compromise (IoCs), machine learning identifying novel attack techniques, and threat hunting where analysts proactively search for hidden threats.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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