The importance of documentation

Often disliked and disregarded, documentation is actually the key to the kingdom in any technical team. In a threat hunting team, and probably in any team, you will want to avoid "knowledge hoarding." This refers to senior staff not being able to take a day off because things don't seem to work without them, or projects that fall apart when someone suddenly leaves. Also, your goal should be to prevent forgetting what the thing you did last month was, and how and why you did it. In threat hunting, documentation is crucial not only to help new hires to understand what the team does but also to prevent the team from repeating the same hunts over and over. Keeping good communication will also help you track your team's success and communicate it to the C-suite when necessary.

Besides hunting, documentation has to meet certain criteria to be considered good. Let's take a look at what we need to do in order to write good documentation...