Analytical gaps in threat hunting methodologies can result in:

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Options

• AAn overreliance on automated alerting systems
• BPerfect detection with no false negatives
• CImproved threat actor attribution
• DMissed detection opportunities

• A
  10% (6)
• B
  5% (3)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  84% (53)

Explanation

Analytical gaps in threat hunting - blind spots in how a hunter reasons, scopes, or interprets data - directly lead to missed detection opportunities (D) because threats that fall outside the analyst's mental model or methodology simply go unexamined, leaving adversaries undetected.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is a cause, not a consequence - over-reliance on automation is often what creates analytical gaps, not what results from them.
• B is the opposite of reality; gaps by definition introduce false negatives, not eliminate them.
• C is unrelated - attribution quality depends on intelligence sources and forensic depth, not on whether hunting methodology has gaps.

Memory tip: Think of analytical gaps as literal holes in a fishing net - anything that fits through a hole gets away. The result is always escaped fish (missed detections), not better fishing skills (attribution) or a perfect net (no false negatives).

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