EP181 Detection Engineering Deep Dive: From Career Paths to Scaling SOC Teams

Topics covered:

• What are the biggest challenges facing detection engineers today?
• What do you tell people who want to consume detections and not engineer them?
• What advice would you give to someone who is interested in becoming a detection engineer at her organization?
• So, what IS a detection engineer? Do you need software skills to be one? How much breadth and depth do you need?
• What should a SOC leader whose team totally lacks such skills do?
• You created Detection Engineering Weekly. What motivated you to start this publication, and what are your goals for it? What are the learnings so far?
• You work for a vendor, so how should customers think of vendor-made vs customer-made detections and their balance? 
• What goes into a backlog for detections and how do you inform it?