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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

Phase 5 – Test

Testing is a way to validate the efficacy of your detection and reduce its noisiness before deploying it within a production environment. While we show testing as occurring after development, in reality, it is a continuous process that occurs throughout the detection development process. It should not be relegated to occurring only after development is complete. A best practice within DE is to use testing to guide the development process.

Test-driven development is a software development technique that adapts well to this purpose. Tests are designed before development and are first added to the automated acceptance testing infrastructure. The development process starts with running the tests against your existing detection capabilities. This may result in you identifying already existing detection capabilities or confirming the failure of these tests, which identifies the need to create or update a detection. During the development process, these tests are...