The future of detection engineering

Detection-as-code is focused on applying engineering and software development processes and technology to detection creation. Therefore, we should continue to see maturity in processes and the adoption of tools and technology most prominently from the software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning fields. There are many external factors that will continue to influence and perpetuate the need for detection engineering. In addition, there are issues that consistently hinder detection creation and some new X-factors that we will need to see if they last through their hype. In the following sections, we have identified many of those areas and how they will affect detection engineering going forward. Writing predictions for the future is a dangerous task, so while we call these predictions, they are mostly trends in the field that we believe will continue the need for detection engineering.

Attack surfaces

The scope of what a company...