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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 6 – Deploy

The goal of this phase is to take the developed detection from the test environment and migrate it to the production environment. This detection is also monitored to ensure it runs as expected and does not negatively impact the performance of the production system. The following are the inputs and outputs associated with this phase:

  • Input: Tested detection code
  • Output: Deployed detection code

Deployment tags are a useful method for representing the maturity stages of a detection, enabling the rapid release of new capabilities while limiting the impact of a malfunctioning detection on analysts reviewing alerts. Here are the criteria for the experimental, test, and stable maturity stages:

  • Experimental: At this stage, the detection has been designed and converted into code but extensive testing on its performance in a real environment has not been tested. Tweaking will likely need to be done for it to be ready before a peer review. The...