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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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Looking at data source issues and challenges

Unfortunately, a lot of variabilities are involved in what data sources will be available and the quality of those data sources. We’ll touch on several of the causes of such variability and the challenges they present in the following subsections.

Completeness

The completeness of the data provided by a data source is based on the value of the attributes captured for any given event. We do not want to waste storage resources and bandwidth on data sources that won’t add value to our investigation due to the data they expose. For example, if a system provides logs showing a network connection was established but there are no details on the source/destination of the connection with contextless timestamps and ambiguous time zones, there is likely not much that can be used from that to develop a quality detection. As such, we either ignore or de-prioritize this data source.

As an additional note regarding completeness, some...

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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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