Practical Threat Detection Engineering by Megan Roddie EPUB

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Practical Threat Detection Engineering by Megan Roddie .. EPUB



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, projects, and self-assessment questions, this guide will enable you to confidently validate the detections in your security program.



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.



 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 organization’s security posture by mastering the detection engineering lifecycle.

To get started with this book, you’ll 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





About the Authors

Megan Roddie is an experienced information security professional with a diverse background ranging from incident response to threat intelligence to her current role as a detection engineer. Additionally, Megan is a course author and instructor with the SANS Institute where she regularly publishes research on cloud incident response and forensics. Outside of the cyber security industry, Megan trains and competes as a high-level amateur Muay Thai fighter in Austin, TX.



Jason Deyalsingh is an experienced consultant with over nine years of experience in the cyber security space. He has spent the last 5 years focused on digital forensics and incident response (DFIR). His current hobbies include playing with data and failing to learn Rust.



Gary J. Katz is still trying to figure out what to do with his life while contemplating what its purpose really is. While not spiraling into this metaphysical black hole compounded by the plagues and insanity of this world, he sometimes thinks about cyber security problems and writes them down. These ruminations are, on occasion, captured in articles and books.



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