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Practical Threat Detection Engineering

By : Megan Roddie, Jason Deyalsingh, Gary J. Katz
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Book Image

Practical Threat Detection Engineering

5 (2)
By: Megan Roddie, Jason Deyalsingh, Gary J. Katz

Overview of this book

Threat validation is an indispensable component of every security detection program, ensuring a healthy detection pipeline. This comprehensive detection engineering guide will serve as an introduction for those who are new to detection validation, providing valuable guidelines to swiftly bring you up to speed. The book will show you how to apply the supplied frameworks to assess, test, and validate your detection program. It covers the entire life cycle of a detection, from creation to validation, with the help of real-world examples. Featuring hands-on tutorials and projects, this guide will enable you to confidently validate the detections in your security program. This book serves as your guide to building a career in detection engineering, highlighting the essential skills and knowledge vital for detection engineers in today's landscape. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills necessary to test your security detection program and strengthen your organization’s security measures.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Detection Engineering
5
Part 2: Detection Creation
11
Part 3: Detection Validation
14
Part 4: Metrics and Management
16
Part 5: Detection Engineering as a Career

Documentation and Detection Pipelines

In Chapters 6 and 7 of the book, we learned how to create a set of detections. As your team begins to build out your detection repository, it is important to maintain quality by enforcing standards upon the team, and yourself.

In this chapter, we will begin by looking at how to document detections. Proper documentation standards are key to maintaining knowledge within your detection team and supporting SOC analysts reviewing alerts created by the detections. We will demonstrate the type of information that should be documented and methods to standardize and keep the documentation.

Another way to enforce quality is through the use of a detection pipeline. Leveraging a detection pipeline is a good way to implement and automate processes within your team. We’ll show what it looks like to leverage detection-as-code and continuous deployment to take code through various stages of texting. We’ll also introduce the concept of building...