Detection Engineering Weekly

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2026-10-29

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Zack Allen

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12 recent issues

• Covers: Threat detection engineering methods, security logs, SIEM tools, EDR telemetry, threat hunting techniques, and AI security evaluations.
• For: Detection engineers, security analysts, and threat hunters managing enterprise defense systems.
• Best for: Cybersecurity professionals wanting weekly technical updates and how-tos on threat detection.
• Skip if: General consumers or business professionals outside of technical cybersecurity roles.

Start with

• What are Security Logs? Part 1: Explains data sources, telemetry generation, and structured event messages for security analysis.
• DEW #172 - Context bombing, GATES method for hunting & Vulnpocalypse Week 2: Covers threat hunting methodologies, vulnerability developments, and detection engineering updates.
• DEW #169 - Realistic AI SOC evaluation scenarios, tricking EDRs with fake telemetry and Anthropic/OAI cyber eval guardrails: Analyzes AI SOC evaluation scenarios and evasion techniques involving fake EDR telemetry.

Sponsors seen

• Mars SecuritySponsor

  Sponsor: Mars Security The campaign report dropped this morning. Is the detection live yet?

  DEW #172 - Context bombing, GATES method for hunting & Vulnpocalypse Week 2 · 2026-10-29
• Material SecuritySponsor

  Sponsor: Material Security Catching the phish was never the whole job.

  DEW #166 - Figma's Agentic SecOps, AI-EDRs and Anthropic Evals Breaking into Companies · 2026-08-05
• RileveraSponsor

  Sponsor: Rilevera Make Your Detection Program More Resilient Detection-as-Code is the core foundation for a resilient detection program.

  DEW #166 - Figma's Agentic SecOps, AI-EDRs and Anthropic Evals Breaking into Companies · 2026-08-05
• Detections.aiSponsor

  Sponsor: Detections.ai Coverage analysis, tuned to your environment detections.ai Enterprise builds a baseline of the tech you run

  DEW #168 - The Detection Rule Stork, OpenWeight models vs your SIEM and Sigma vs. YARA · 2026-08-26
• RileveraSponsor

  Secondary Sponsor: Rilevera Make Your Detection Program More Resilient Detection-as-Code is the core foundation for a resilient detection program.

  DEW #165 - Starved & Neglected Rules, Agentic IR Notebooks and Hacker Summer Camp · 2026-07-29
• CotoolSponsor

  Big shoutout to the co-sponsors, Cotool and Nebulock , for their support to help make this happen.

  DEW #164 - Your Benign Set Stinks, OpenAI Models Break into Hugging Face & Chinese Openweight Models · 2026-07-22
• NebulockSponsor

  Big shoutout to the co-sponsors, Cotool and Nebulock , for their support to help make this happen.

  DEW #164 - Your Benign Set Stinks, OpenAI Models Break into Hugging Face & Chinese Openweight Models · 2026-07-22
• RileveraSponsor

  This Week’s Sponsor: Rilevera Detections should be treated as code. A rule misfiring in production is the most frustrating part of detection engineering.

  DEW #164 - Your Benign Set Stinks, OpenAI Models Break into Hugging Face & Chinese Openweight Models · 2026-07-22
• Cotool.aiPartner

  running it back after BSides SF/RSA with friends and supporters of the newsletter, Cotool.ai

  DEW #163 - Semantic Malware Detections, Microsoft's CTI REALM evals and Thrunting for Knowledge · 2026-07-15

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