C2 Corner: State of Enterprise Detection Engineering for a Modern SOC

The report outlines a practical approach to detection engineering that emphasizes doing fundamentals well: early visibility into priority log sources, formalized log onboarding with intake gates, normalization to common schemas (e.g., OCSF/CIM), and CTI-driven, TTP-focused detections managed as code with testing and QA. It highlights the SIEM cost paradox and explains how security data pipelines (e.g., Abstract, Cribl, CrowdStrike/Onum) can filter, enrich, and route telemetry to reduce hot ingest while preserving full-fidelity data for investigations. The document closes with key metrics (coverage, quality, speed, efficiency, cost) and a first-90-days playbook, and positions Abstract Security’s pipeline and analytics as a way to improve detection quality and lower cost.