Security, Risk & Compliance

Threat Detection Engineer

A SIEM full of noisy, generic alerts is worse than no SIEM at all, it trains your team to ignore warnings until the one that matters gets missed. This service builds and tunes detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, then runs proactive threat hunts to find adversary behavior that rule-based alerting missed entirely. It's for security teams drowning in false positives or running a SIEM that was configured once at deployment and never revisited. The result is detection coverage tied to real attacker techniques, with alerts your analysts can actually trust and act on.

This is a capability we deliver for you as a service, not a role we’re hiring for.

How We’d Approach This

A clear, staged plan, not a black box

These are the service-specific steps inside our six-step process.

1
Diagnose current detection coverage against the ATT&CK matrix to find which techniques are unmonitored or under-alerting.
2
Pilot new detection rules against historical log data to validate signal quality before enabling them live.
3
Review tuned rules and alert thresholds with the SOC team to cut false-positive fatigue.
4
Operate ongoing threat hunts and rule maintenance as new techniques and log sources are added.

What You Get

Deliverables from this engagement

ATT&CK-mapped detection coverage assessment
Tuned SIEM detection rules with validated signal quality
Documented threat-hunting playbooks and findings
Reduced false-positive alert baseline for the SOC

Six Ways We Could Architect This

Different engagement, different build, pick the shape that fits

There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.

Read all 6 architectures as text

Lean Fast-Start Architecture

Single SIEM Instance

Log Sources Ingested
Manually Written Detection Rules
Alert Console Reviewed Daily

Manual Hunting

Ad Hoc Hunt Queries
Analyst Reviews Query Results
Suspicious Pattern Flagged

Coverage Tracking

Spreadsheet ATT&CK Coverage Map
Gap List Prioritized
Coverage Reviewed Monthly

Outcome

New Rule Added When Gap Found
Rule Tested Against Sample Logs
Rule Promoted to Production

Cloud-Native / Managed Services Architecture

Managed Log Pipeline

Cloud Native SIEM
Managed Log Collection Pipeline
Log Retention and Indexing

Detection Engineering

Detection as Code Repository
Cloud Data Lake for Historical Hunts
Version Controlled Rule Library

Coverage Management

ATT&CK Coverage Dashboard
Rule Tuning Against Historical Data
Coverage Trend Reporting

Outcome

Validated Rules Deployed to SIEM
Coverage Improvement Report
Stakeholder Review Meeting

Event-Driven & Automation-First Architecture

Triggers

New Log Source Onboarded
New ATT&CK Technique Published
Analyst Marks Alert as False Positive

Automated Pipeline

Auto Coverage Gap Analysis
Detection as Code Rule Drafted
Rule Deployed via CI CD Pipeline

Live Detection

Rule Fires on Live Traffic
Auto Enrichment of Alert
Case Auto Created in SOAR

Analyst Response

Analyst Notified and Investigates
Rule Tuned if False Positive
Confirmed Incident Escalated

Enterprise-Grade & Compliance-Ready Architecture

Rule Governance

Rule Change Approval Workflow
Segregation of Duties for Tuning
Peer Review Before Deployment

Redundancy

Multi Region SIEM Redundancy
Backup Log Retention Store
Failover Alerting Path

Audit Trail

Audit Log of Every Rule Deployed
Compliance Evidence for Continuous Monitoring
Rule Change History Archive

Oversight

SOC Leadership Review
Quarterly Coverage Audit
Board Level Risk Summary

AI-Augmented, Human-in-the-Loop Architecture

Behavioral Data

User and Entity Behavior Logs
Historical Alert Outcomes
Threat Intel Technique Feed

AI Analytics Engine

AI Baseline Behavior Analytics
AI Surfaces Anomalies
AI Drafts Candidate Detection Rule

Engineer Validation Gate

Engineer Reviews Candidate Rule
Engineer Backtests Against Historical Data
Engineer Sets Alert Threshold

Deployment

Approved Rule Enabled Live
Rejected Rule Sent Back to AI
Alert Fatigue Monitored Post Deploy

Integration-Heavy / Ecosystem-Connected Architecture

Client Ecosystem

EDR Platform
Identity Provider Logs
Cloud Logs
Threat Intel Feed

Detection Engineering Core

Detection as Code Repository
SIEM Rule Engine
Coverage Mapping Engine

Two Way Sync

Log Sources Feed SIEM
Threat Intel Enriches Rules
Alerts Pushed to SOAR Ticketing

SOC Alerting

Slack or Teams SOC Channel
On Call Escalation Path

Ready to get started?

Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start, scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.

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Most engagements like this start as a $500–$2,500 pilot, see full pricing.