🛡️A Primer to Detection Engineering Dimensions in a SOC Universe

In these three blog articles I will go through different dimensions that impact directly or indirectly the detection engineering process from a SOC perspective.

Introduction

During my three years in cybersecurity, I have been lucky enough, as an analyst, to work on several vectors inside the SOC pipelines, from alert triage and DFIR engagement to SIEM engineering and detection development which allowed me to experience first hand different challenges that we face on a daily basis.

Detection engineering is now considered one of the most important operations inside a SOC, MSSP or an MDR. In this article I will try to present detection engineering dimensions from my personal point of view of a SOC analyst.

TL;DR

Here is a Mind Map where I tried to group the main ideas of these blog posts. For further details, please follow along.

• Dimension 1 : Operationalization

• Dimension 2 : Execution

• Dimension 3 : Analytics

Detection Engineering Dimensions