Guest:

  • Amine Besson, Tech Lead on Detection Engineering, Behemoth Cyberdefence

Topics:

  • What is your best advice on detection engineering to organizations who don’t want to engineer anything in security?
  • What is the state of art when it comes to SOC ? Who is doing well? What on Earth is a fusion center?
  • Why classic “tiered SOCs” fall flat when dealing with modern threats?
  • Let’s focus on a correct definition of detection as code. Can you provide yours?
  • Detection x response engineering - is there a thing called “response engineering”? Should there be?
  • What are your lessons learned to fuse intel, detections, and hunting ops?
  • What is this SIEMless yet SOARful detection architecture?
  • What’s next with OpenTIDE 2.0?

Resources:

  • Guide your SOC Leaders to More Engineering Wisdom for Detection (Part 9) and other parts linked there
  • Hack.lu 2023: TIDeMEC : A Detection Engineering Platform Homegrown At The EC video
  • OpenTIDE · GitLab
  • OpenTIDE 1.0 Release blog
  • SpectreOps blog series ‘on detection’
  • Does your SOC have NOC DNA? presentation
  • Kill SOC Toil, Do SOC Eng blog (tame version)
  • The original ASO paper (2021, still epic!)
  • Behind the Scenes with Red Canary's Detection Engineering Team
  • The DFIR Report – Real Intrusions by Real Attackers, The Truth Behind the Intrusion
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) | Google Cloud