Detection Engineering

The services

Our detection engineering services help your organisation optimise its ability to detect cyber threats quickly and effectively. Our team has responded to and reviewed incidents with many missed opportunities to detect and stop attacks. We bring real world experience to:

• Developing logging policies and event plans that set out the scope of systems that should retain and forward logs, and what events are of the highest value
• Designing and implementing log centralisation approaches that are immutable and resilient to disruption so they are usable when they are needed most
• Evaluating in place detection techniques and coverage to common real-world cyber threat techniques
• Cost and volume optimisation of the consumption-based licensing used by common SIEM platforms
• Designing and implementing custom detection rules
• Tuning endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions
• Developing network traffic capture and analysis capabilities
• Creating, executing, and refining threat hunting processes
• Creating detection metrics and performance indicators
• Designing automated containment and response playbooks

The problems we help address

Getting detection right can give organisations the chance to turn what could have been a damaging crisis into a non-event. Our detection engineering services can help:

• Reduce the time to detect and respond to incidents to a practical minimum
• Reduce the impact and cost of security incidents
• Save money on consumption-based SIEM licensing
• Make sure detection capability and scope is focused on real world threats and techniques
• Enhance the resilience of detection capability to disruption from incidents
• Enhance the utility of available logging for investigations to more quickly identify the facts of an incident
• Minimise false positives generated by alert rules and develop high-signal true-positive indicators
• Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations
• Enable proactive threat hunting and risk mitigation
• Adapt to evolving threats and attack techniques

The difference we strive for

At Germane Advisory, our approach to detection engineering is both technical and people-centric. We combine deep technical expertise with an understanding of your organisation's unique context to create detection strategies that work in the real world. 

Our value-minded perspective ensures that detection engineering efforts are cost-conscious. Given the pervasiveness of consumption-based pricing for SIEM platforms, we help you optimise your spend and don’t waste your money on keeping data that won’t help you detect or investigate something important. 

We're pragmatic in our approach, focusing on detection strategies that deliver the most significant security value. We understand that every alert consumes valuable analyst time, so we strive to create high-fidelity detections that minimise noise and maximise impact. The value we place on creativity comes to the fore as we develop innovative detection techniques for complex or unique threats.

We focus on knowledge transfer and skill development, empowering your team to continually evolve and improve your detection strategies. With Germane Advisory, you're building a proactive, adaptive defence capability that keeps you one step ahead of cyber adversaries.