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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

Performance Management

In previous chapters, we have explored the detection engineering life cycle, from creating a test lab and building your first detection to testing and validating your detections. In this chapter, we will discuss a seemingly simple yet difficult-to-answer question: how good are we doing? We will look at this from multiple perspectives: the maturity of the detection engineering program and its associated productivity or efficiency, how well we historically detected the adversary, and how well we can expect to detect the adversary in the future.

We will cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Introduction to performance management
  • Assessing the maturity of your detection program
  • Measuring the effectiveness of a detection engineering program
  • Measuring the efficiency of a detection engineering program
  • Calculating a detection’s efficacy