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May 29, 2026

SOAR Playbooks Aren't Scripts

Treating SOAR playbooks as pipelines, not scripts.

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SOAR Playbooks Aren't Scripts
Dec 31, 2024

To Detect or Not to Detect

Guidelines for evaluating effective SOC detections.

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To Detect or Not to Detect
Dec 18, 2024

Towards Actionable Detection

Actionable detection for relevant and contextual alerts.

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Towards Actionable Detection
Jul 26, 2024

Review: Practical Threat Detection Engineering

Review of Practical Threat Detection Engineering book.

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Review: Practical Threat Detection Engineering
Mar 14, 2024

Improving SecOps Beyond Tuning Analytics

Improving SecOps through alert tuning, contextualization, and automation.

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Improving SecOps Beyond Tuning Analytics
Mar 13, 2024

Review: The Cuckoo's Egg

A 1980s Infosec thriller with groundbreaking investigations.

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Review: The Cuckoo's Egg
Mar 8, 2024

The Threat Detection Fundamental Dilemma

Exploring the precision vs. recall dilemma in threat detection.

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The Threat Detection Fundamental Dilemma
Dec 15, 2023

Testing The Logfile Navigator (lnav)

Log analysis with lnav: challenges, insights, and tips.

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Testing The Logfile Navigator (lnav)
Nov 29, 2023

Insights into Effective SIEM Deployment

Strategies and tips for successful SIEM deployment.

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Insights into Effective SIEM Deployment
Nov 23, 2023

Understanding Severity vs. Priority

Find the best settings for consistent detection alerts.

dfirdetection
Understanding Severity vs. Priority
Oct 17, 2023

Review: Intelligence-Driven Incident Response

How integrating CTI enhances Threat Detection and CSIRT.

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Review: Intelligence-Driven Incident Response
Oct 25, 2022

Automating Incident Response

Tackling log centralization, SIEM, and IR automation.

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Automating Incident Response
Oct 4, 2022

Friction Between Red Teams and Incident Response

Reducing friction in Red Team cybersecurity exercises.

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Friction Between Red Teams and Incident Response
Sep 6, 2022

Query Security Services for IP Reputation

Query three security services for IP reputation in one script.

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Query Security Services for IP Reputation
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