Panel: Ctrl-Alt-Detected: Unraveling Threats with Detection Practitioners
BSides NYC 2024 · Day 1 · Panel
This panel discussion, "Ctrl-Alt-Detected: Unraveling Threats with Detection Practitioners," brought together leading voices in detection engineering from Snowflake, Salesforce, Twitch/NASA/Stripe alumni, and Datadog. Moderated by Julia Agnes Sparks, a Security Researcher at Datadog, the panel featured Tammy Truong (Threat Detection Engineer at Snowflake), Christina Devlin (Senior Security Engineering Manager, formerly at Twitch, NASA, and Stripe), and Shannon McCormick (Detection and Response Engineering at Salesforce). The discussion provided an invaluable deep dive into the practical realities, challenges, and evolving strategies within the field of threat detection and response.
AI review
A competent practitioner panel covering well-worn detection engineering territory — RBA, alert fatigue, data quality, UEBA, crown jewels. The speakers have real-world credibility and the conversation stays grounded in operational reality, but nothing here advances the field or surfaces insights that aren't already documented in Splunk blog posts and MITRE ATT&CK references. Good for someone early in their detection engineering career; experienced practitioners will recognize every problem and most of the solutions.