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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

Developing Detections Using Indicators of Compromise

In this chapter, we will apply the detection engineering life cycle to investigate and develop detections in our lab. In Chapter 2, we identified four sub-steps to the Investigate phase and three sub-steps to the Develop phase, which we will follow in our exercises in this chapter.

Investigate:

  1. Research context
  2. Data source identification
  3. Detection indicator types
  4. Establish validation criteria

Develop:

  1. Design
  2. Develop
  3. Unit test

At the beginning of the book, we introduced the Pyramid of Pain, which can be used to evaluate how easily the adversary can evade our detections. In addition to signifying the difficulty for the adversary to evade detection, the pyramid levels also (mostly) align with how easily a detection can be created. For this reason, we will start with implementing simpler static indicator detections that align to lower levels of the pyramid, and in the next chapter...