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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

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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

Exploring the detection repository

A detection pipeline should support the rapid creation, testing, maintenance, and deployment of new detections in your environment. While the pipeline should be customized to your own usage, forking an existing pipeline is a good way to start. Multiple organizations have open-sourced their detections and associated pipelines for the broader community. Some examples of this are included in this book’s Appendix. As a starting point, you may wish to see if your chosen product vendor(s) has open-sourced their detections and pipeline, providing a natural starting point. If this does not exist, the Sigma repository and engine is an open source library of detections and a compiler to convert the rules to run in multiple detection environments.

Your detections should be organized to support easy creation and maintenance as your repository continues to evolve. The project layout outlined in Figure 8.1 aims to provide common software development conventions...