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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

Assessing the maturity of your detection program

Understanding the maturity of their detection engineering program allows leaders to set realistic goals for the organization and identify where to focus next on their journey. In earlier chapters, we introduced some basic concepts of detection engineering that are necessary for any detection engineering program to master and discussed advanced processes and metrics that will not be used by organizations until later in their maturity. Any article or book describing the maturity of a program requires obligatory maturity levels aligned to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and we will not disappoint here. We will identify when to begin applying these more advanced concepts through the maturity model, which is designed to help organizations track their journey and identify where to focus next. The maturity model we have established is visualized in Figure 11.1.

Figure 11.1 – Detection engineering maturity model

Figure 11.1 – Detection engineering...