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Practical Threat Detection Engineering

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Product type Book

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076715

Pages 328 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (3):

Megan Roddie

Jason Deyalsingh

Gary J. Katz

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Detection Engineering

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Detection Engineering

3. Chapter 2: The Detection Engineering Life Cycle

4. Chapter 3: Building a Detection Engineering Test Lab

5. Part 2: Detection Creation

6. Chapter 4: Detection Data Sources

7. Chapter 5: Investigating Detection Requirements

8. Chapter 6: Developing Detections Using Indicators of Compromise

9. Chapter 7: Developing Detections Using Behavioral Indicators

10. Chapter 8: Documentation and Detection Pipelines

11. Part 3: Detection Validation

12. Chapter 9: Detection Validation

13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

14. Part 4: Metrics and Management

15. Chapter 11: Performance Management

16. Part 5: Detection Engineering as a Career

17. Chapter 12: Career Guidance for Detection Engineers

18. Index

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The Elastic Stack

The Elastic Stack is a set of tightly integrated products that are well suited to address the requirements of a DE lab. The Elastic Stack includes the following components:

Beats: A data shipper that is used to collect data from an endpoint and forward it to Elasticsearch or Logstash for pre-processing. Different packages exist for collecting different types of data from endpoints. While Beats is a core component of the Elastic Stack, in this book, we will use Elastic Agent to forward data from endpoints to Elasticsearch.
Logstash: A powerful tool for transforming data and forwarding it to different destination systems. It offers a high degree of control over re-shaping data and has plugins that support forwarding data to a significant variety of destinations.
Elasticsearch: This is the data storage component. While primarily designed for searching, it has evolved to become a capable data analysis engine.
Kibana: This is the Elasticsearch frontend...

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Authors (3)

Megan Roddie

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.

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Jason Deyalsingh

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.

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Gary J. Katz

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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