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Practical Threat Detection Engineering

You're reading from Practical Threat Detection Engineering A hands-on guide to planning, developing, and validating detection capabilities

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076715

Length 328 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

ExpressionEngine

Concepts

Threat Hunting

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 FREE CHAPTER

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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In our lab, we will be collecting telemetry from multiple endpoints. To enable this, we will install Elastic Agent on any system we want to collect data from. In larger deployments, agents can get deployed to hundreds or even thousands of endpoints and each of these endpoints can have different data collection requirements. Managing these agents can become complicated as the number and diversity of installed agents increase. Fleet Server is a component of the Elastic Stack that attempts to simplify agent management.

From Kibana, we can create different agent policies, which define what data should be collected, apply those policies to different endpoints, and even uninstall Elastic from these endpoints if we need to. This capability is extremely powerful, especially in larger environments with many endpoints.

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Authors (3)

Megan Roddie

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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Gary J. Katz

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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Jason Deyalsingh

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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