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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 assessments

As mentioned in the Threat intelligence in the detection engineering life cycle section of this chapter, threat assessments are a source of valuable detection requirements. Threat assessments define a process for evaluating threats to an organization and its information systems and describing those threats, providing a report detailing organization-specific risks. Organizations often leverage threat assessments to identify areas for improvement of detection and prevention coverage. Sometimes, this can be the identification of vulnerabilities or misconfigurations that should be changed to prevent certain threats. It can also include information about the types of threats and attack vectors that are the greatest risk to your organization. This is where most of the value, for detection engineers, comes from, as the identification of these risks allows us to determine what coverage is most applicable to our organization.

Since performing threat assessments and details...