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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

Detection engineering as a job

In a previous section, we mentioned some examples of responsibilities listed in job postings for detection engineers, which gave a high-level idea of the types of work you’d be performing as a detection engineer. Before we look in more detail at the roles and responsibilities of a detection engineer, we’re first going to discuss some related job roles and how they differ, as well as how those jobs can be used to show your experience in detection engineering when applying for jobs. While there are many sub-specialties in cyber security, we’re going to focus on a few roles that are most closely related to detection engineering in terms of the skills used:

  • Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst
  • Incident responder
  • Threat hunter
  • Threat intelligence analyst/threat researcher

All of these roles, while much different from a full-time engineering position, involve responsibilities that will either directly align...