Detection Engineering Weekly

Knowing what good looks like in agentic security

The peak is higher, but the climb is faster

Feb 19 • Zack Allen

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DEW #145 - Modified Z-Score for Anomaly Detection, Watermarking for Audit Logs -> SIEM and Zack gives you all an RFC for homework

You must write "I will not write a detection rule for IP addresses" 1000 times

Feb 11 • Zack Allen

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DEW #144 - Pyramid of Permanence and 🦞OpenClaw 🦞 Security Dumpster Fires

Lobster never tasted so good

Feb 4 • Zack Allen

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January 2026

DEW #143 - Suppressing False Positives at Scale, Silencing EDRs & Detection Fidelity via Social Network Analysis

snowmageddon has hit the Northeast US

Jan 28 • Zack Allen

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DEW #142 - Slack's Agentic Triage Architecture, Detection <3's Data and Sigma evals

bills lose and now the team's imploding

Jan 21 • Zack Allen

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DEW #141 - K8s Detection Engineering, macOS EDR evasion, Cloud-native detection handbook

Happy New Year! Did you miss me?

Jan 14 • Zack Allen

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What are Composite Detections?

Atomic Detection rules are critical building blocks for a detection engineering function.

Jan 7 • Zack Allen

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December 2025

What are Atomic Detection Rules?

The first and last rules you'll likely write :)

Dec 15, 2025 • Zack Allen

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DEW #140 - SVG Filter ClickJacking, Detection Engineering "Onboarding" and React2Shell spotlight

my detection unc status is probably at an all time high and i'm here for it

Dec 10, 2025 • Zack Allen

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DEW #139 - Detection Surface, Frontier Models are good at SecOps & THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

I graduated from the terrible twos to a threenager

Dec 3, 2025 • Zack Allen

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November 2025

DEW #138 - Sigma's Detection Quality Pipeline, Anthropic finds AI-first APT & eBPF shenanigans

vibing APTs, we really out here frfr

Nov 19, 2025 • Zack Allen

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DEW #137 - AI Agents For Security By Security, Free Sigma training & JA4 for beginners

The Louvre's WiFi password should've been ervouL

Nov 12, 2025 • Zack Allen

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