How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build a Modern Detection & Response Program

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Presented at Texas Cyber Summit 2023 by

Allyn Stott

You haven't slept in days. Pager alerts at all hours. Constant firefights. How do you get out of this mess? This talk gives away all the secrets you'll need to go from reactive chaos to building and running a finely tuned detection & response program (and finally get some sleep).Gone are the days of buying the ol' EDR/IDS/NGAV combo, throwing some engineers on an on-call rotation, and calling it your incident response team. You need a robust and comprehensive detection and response program to fight the modern day attackers that threaten to disable, disrupt, degrade, destroy, and steal from the enterprise you protect. But there's a lot of challenges in the way: alert fatigue, tools are expensive, hiring talent is impossibly difficult, and your current team is overworked from running firefights every day.How do you successfully build a modern detection and response program, all while riding the rocket of never ending incidents and unforgiving on-call schedules?This talk boils down all that I've learned in the last decade about building detection and response programs into 49 minutes. At the end of this talk, you will walk away with a better understanding of all the capabilities a modern program should have and a framework to build or improve your own.