Walk into most SOCs and ask to see their detection strategy, and you'll often get one of two responses: a blank stare, or someone handing you a spreadsheet of detection rules sorted by severity. Here's the thing—a list of rules isn't a strategy. And without a real strategy, even the best detection engineering team is just guessing about what to build next. The Problem with Ad-Hoc Detection Engineering Most organizations approach detection engineering reactively. A new threat

Your SOC analysts are drowning in alerts. Each detection rule fires independently. A medium-severity alert here. A low-severity building block there. An ML anomaly over there. Individually, none of them screams "investigate immediately." But together? They might indicate a sophisticated attack in progress. The problem is, your analysts don't have time to manually correlate dozens of low and medium severity alerts across hosts and users. They're too busy triaging the high-seve