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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

Triaging detection requirements

In this section, we’ll discuss the steps that should be taken and the criteria to be considered when prioritizing requirements. Triage is an important phase of the detection engineering lifecycle because not all detection requirements will have the same impact on the organization’s defenses, so it is important that we prioritize our efforts toward those that will provide the most value. If engineers are provided an unprioritized list of detection requirements, you risk missing the requirements that may prevent a major attack because everyone is working on what they feel like rather than what is best for the organization.

There are four criteria we mentioned in Chapter 2 as factors when triaging requirements:

  • Threat Severity
  • Organizational Alignment
  • Detection Coverage
  • Active Exploits

For each detection requirement that comes in, we need to evaluate how it is affected by the above four factors in order to determine...