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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

Threat intelligence in the detection engineering life cycle

Threat intelligence can play a role in multiple phases of the detection engineering life cycle. In this section, we are going to look at how intelligence can be leveraged in the first three phases of the life cycle: Requirements Discovery, Triage, and Investigate.

Requirements Discovery

The first stage of the detection engineering life cycle is Requirements Discovery and it’s the phase in which various sources provide us guidance for what detections need to be developed. Either through the DE team’s own research or a threat intel team’s reporting, intelligence can become a source for detection requirements. For example, if a blog post comes out about a threat actor targeting organizations in your industry, it might become a requirement to ensure coverage for detecting the TTPs used by that threat actor. Or from an internal threat intel perspective, if threat hunters observe patterns of undetected...