Applying Criminal Justice Principles to Detection Engineering

This blog post argues that detection engineering can benefit from legal investigative frameworks by applying the concepts of burden of proof, mens rea (intent), and actus reus (action) to alert classification. It explains tiered standards of confidence (preponderance, clear and convincing, beyond a reasonable doubt) and recommends correlating multiple signals, assessing means/motive/opportunity, and using risk-based alerting to better distinguish true positives from false positives and prioritize responses.