Practical Threat Detection Engineering: A hands-on guide to planning

Go on a journey through the threat detection engineering lifecycle while enriching your skill set and protecting your organization

Key Features:

- Gain a comprehensive understanding of threat validation

- Leverage open-source tools to test security detections

- Harness open-source content to supplement detection and testing

Book Description:

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 todays landscape.

By the end of this book, youll have developed the skills necessary to test your security detection program and strengthen your organizations security measures.

What You Will Learn:

- Understand the detection engineering process

- Build a detection engineering test lab

- Learn how to maintain detections as code

- Understand how threat intelligence can be used to drive detection development

- Prove the effectiveness of detection capabilities to business leadership

- Learn how to limit attackers ability to inflict damage by detecting any malicious activity early

Who this book is for:

This book is for security analysts and engineers seeking to improve their organizations security posture by mastering the detection engineering lifecycle.

To get started with this book, youll need a basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts, along with some experience with detection and alert capabilities.

Table of Contents

- Fundamentals of Detection Engineering

- The Detection Engineering Life Cycle

- Building a Detection Engineering Test Lab

- Detection Data Sources

- Investigating Detection Requirements

- Developing Detections Using Indicators of Compromise

- Developing Detections Using Behavioral Indicators

- Documentation and Detection Pipelines

- Detection Validation

- Leveraging Threat Intelligence

- Performance Management

- Career Guidance for Detection Engineers