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Practical Threat Detection Engineering

A hands-on guide to planning, developing, and validating detection capabilities

Megan RoddieJDGK

Created by Megan Roddie, Jason Deyalsingh, Gary J. Katz

Explore practical threat detection by learning how to plan, develop, and validate security detections using real-world scenarios. Gain hands-on experience with open-source tools and industry frameworks to improve your detection capabilities. Build confidence in assessing and refining your organization's defenses.

Packt | Jul 2023 | 328 min

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LevelBeginner
CategoriesCybersecurity, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

What You Will Learn

You will work through practical exercises and real-world scenarios to build, test, and validate security detections. By using open-source tools and aligning your work with industry standards, you will gain hands-on experience that directly applies to your daily role. Each step is designed to help you confidently improve your detection engineering skills.

Key Features

  • Develop and validate security detections using real-world scenarios and open-source tools
  • Apply industry frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to strengthen detection strategies
  • Build a detection lab and optimize detection accuracy for advanced threats

Target Audience

Perfect for SOC analysts, threat hunters, and security engineers with some experience in cybersecurity. If you want to deepen your detection engineering expertise and learn how to develop, test, and optimize high-quality security detections, this guide is tailored for you.

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