Incredibly thorough breakdown of the detection lifecycle. The Bronze-Silver-Gold data architecture section really nails why normalization is non-negotiable. Most teams underestimate how fast provider-specific detection logic becomes technical debt once you're supporting multiple clouds. The normalized RBAC example reducing engineering effort from 3x to 1x is super concrete. What's less obvious is how the Gold layer enrichment (user baselines, threat intel) transforms behavioral detections form noisy junk to surgical alerts. More orgs should be investing upstream in telemetry quality instead of downstream firefighting FPs.
Really appreciate the thoughtful breakdown. "investing upstream instead of firefighting downstream" is spot-on! This is the mental shift that needs to happen in the industry. Folks are usually focused on spending majority of their time writing detections and investigating alerts, when instead they should be first focus on getting their telemetry enriched (gold layer). Once they do this, it becomes trivial to create new detections and also triage them very quickly.
Incredibly thorough breakdown of the detection lifecycle. The Bronze-Silver-Gold data architecture section really nails why normalization is non-negotiable. Most teams underestimate how fast provider-specific detection logic becomes technical debt once you're supporting multiple clouds. The normalized RBAC example reducing engineering effort from 3x to 1x is super concrete. What's less obvious is how the Gold layer enrichment (user baselines, threat intel) transforms behavioral detections form noisy junk to surgical alerts. More orgs should be investing upstream in telemetry quality instead of downstream firefighting FPs.
Really appreciate the thoughtful breakdown. "investing upstream instead of firefighting downstream" is spot-on! This is the mental shift that needs to happen in the industry. Folks are usually focused on spending majority of their time writing detections and investigating alerts, when instead they should be first focus on getting their telemetry enriched (gold layer). Once they do this, it becomes trivial to create new detections and also triage them very quickly.