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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

The future of detection engineering

Detection-as-code is focused on applying engineering and software development processes and technology to detection creation. Therefore, we should continue to see maturity in processes and the adoption of tools and technology most prominently from the software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning fields. There are many external factors that will continue to influence and perpetuate the need for detection engineering. In addition, there are issues that consistently hinder detection creation and some new X-factors that we will need to see if they last through their hype. In the following sections, we have identified many of those areas and how they will affect detection engineering going forward. Writing predictions for the future is a dangerous task, so while we call these predictions, they are mostly trends in the field that we believe will continue the need for detection engineering.

Attack surfaces

The scope of what a company...