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A personal research terminal for security detection engineering. Browse detection queries written for SIEM and SOAR platforms, or read the blog for writeups and notes.
// Latest Blog Posts
VIEW ALL →Designing Detections for Scale, Speed, and Human Beings
Effective KQL detection engineering goes beyond writing queries — it demands an understanding of attacker behaviour, analyst workflows, and production environme…
Why Smart SOC Teams Are Rethinking Sentinel Ingestion (And What They're Doing Instead)
SOC teams face tough decisions about which logs to ingest into Sentinel given volume-based costs. With Microsoft introducing USOP, security teams should lean mo…
// Latest Detections
VIEW ALL →C2 Beacon Detection via DNS Regularity
Elastic SIEMIdentifies potential command-and-control beaconing behaviour by analysing the statistical regularity of DNS queries to external domains from internal hosts.
Lateral Movement via PsExec
Microsoft SentinelDetects use of PsExec or similar remote execution tools for lateral movement, based on characteristic service creation events and named pipe patterns.
Brute Force Login Detection
SplunkDetects repeated failed authentication attempts against a single account within a short time window, indicative of password brute-forcing activity.