DETECTION ENGINEERING & CONTENT QUALITY

Detection rules degrade silently as logs and formats change, so false positives climb and broken detections go unnoticed. Nobody sees which rules are quietly dead.

Actors

  • Detection Engineering Lead
  • SOC Manager
  • Security Data Engineer

Systems / Vendors

  • SIEM
  • Detection content / rules
  • CI / test tooling

Business Question

"Which of our detection rules are broken, noisy or silently dead because a log source changed?"

What SPoG Does

  • Monitors rule health, false-positive rates and broken detections.
  • Tracks log dependencies and test coverage.
  • Keeps detection content trustworthy over time.

Outcome Metrics

−40%

False positives

1

Live rule-health view

6–10 wks

To first outcomes