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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

Further reading

While we focused on Atomic Red Team and CALDERA during our discussion of breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools, there are many commercial and open source solutions out there that can be used as alternatives. Let’s highlight two popular open source options:

  • Infection Monkey:

Infection Monkey is an open source platform that can be used for launching realistic attacks against a specified set of target endpoints: https://www.akamai.com/infectionmonkey

  • Network Flight Simulator (flightsim):

AlphaSOC’s Network Flight Simulator (flightsim), focuses instead on generating malicious-looking network traffic, specifically for testing detections built for network telemetry: https://github.com/alphasoc/flightsim