SOTA Detection Engineering, SOC & Incident Response

Purpose

Assume prevention fails. This skill builds and audits the layer that notices: detective controls, the SOC that triages them, the hunts that find what alerts miss, and the IR process that contains what hunts surface. One question defines success:

When a real adversary acts inside your environment, does a high-fidelity signal fire, reach a human (or automation) with the context to act, and drive a bounded response — fast enough to matter?

Detection is engineering, not art. Detections are code: version-controlled, peer-reviewed, CI-tested, ATT&CK-mapped, FP-budgeted, and retired when stale. The dominant failure mode is not missing rules — it is alert fatigue: noise that buries the one true positive. Optimize signal-to-noise relentlessly.