Detection Engineering Dispatch

Join Snowflake’s Insider Threat team for a direct discussion on separating everyday behavioral drift from true malicious intent. We examine role changes, privilege creep, and off-hour access, showing how context—identity, project timelines, and data lineage—sharpens detection and reduces noise. The conversation ends with a clear-eyed look at the trade-off between missing an insider and overwhelming analysts with false alerts, offering practical guidance for any modern UBA program.

Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

LLMs are rewriting the rules of app security—and not always in a good way.

In this episode Alex sits down with Scott Rogers, a seasoned data scientist at ANvilogic to unpack why LLMs are the new wild west of application risk—and how old-school OWASP principles are making a serious comeback.

We cover:

• Real-world prompt injection failures (yes, including Air Canada’s rogue chatbot)
• How RAG systems can accidentally leak sensitive data
• Why GenAI risk ≠ traditional appsec—but it rhymes
• How classic tools like SAST, DAST, and logs can still save your bacon

Whether you're threat modeling your first LLM system or already knee-deep in GenAI, this episode is full of spicy detection ideas, war stories, and practical advice you won’t want to miss.

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Everyone’s talking about agentic AI—but what are we actually building? In this episode, Oliver Rochford and Alex unpack five bitter pills security teams need to swallow about the current state of “agents.”

Most aren’t autonomous, many are mislabeled, and flashy wrappers can’t hide weak detections or bad data.

We dig into the hype, the gaps, and what real operational maturity looks like. If you're duct-taping GPT-4 to your SOC and hoping for magic, this one’s for you.

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Is your detection logic doing too much? In this special episode, Alex sits down with Johnathan Dempsey to unpack the 5 signs your rules are too complex — and why that might be hurting more than helping.

From alert overload to unreadable logic, learn how to simplify without sacrificing fidelity. If your detections look like a math thesis, this one’s for you.

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

We teamed up with Kennedy Torkura, CTO & Co-founder at Mitigant to test common S3 breach techniques—SSRF pivots, credential abuse, and more—against live cloud infrastructure using Anvilogic’s open-source AWS Detection Packs and threat scenarios.

We cover:

• Which techniques slipped through detection
• How behavioral detections held up
• The hygiene checklist every detection engineer should be using

Buckets were breached. Lessons were learned. Detections were challenged.And now, you get the inside scoop on what worked—and what didn’t.

Anvilogic Github Links in Episode:  https://github.com/anvilogic-forge/ar... 

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Mike Hart returns to walk through URL Guardian, our new LLM for malicious URL detection. Now live on HuggingFace, it’s built to spot suspicious patterns and reduce false positives—without the regex headaches.

Check out the Hugging Face here: https://huggingface.co/Anvilogic/URLGuardian

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Alex sits down with Kevin Gonzalez to pull back the curtain on User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and expose the gap between its promises and real-world pitfalls.

Hear his stories from the trenches of deploying UEBA multiple times at different organizations, and his blueprint for how teams should align UEBA with real attacker behaviors.

Read his blog about his experience: https://www.anvilogic.com/learn/bg-ue...

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Our last drop for International Women's Month featuring Sydney Marrone—Principal Threat Hunter at Splunk and co-author of PEAK Threat Hunting—to explore how ML-driven techniques are transforming detection strategies.

Tune in to hear Sydney and Alex break down real-world applications of advanced analytics to surface threats hidden in HTTP datasets. 

Check out the HEARTH community on their github here: https://github.com/THORCollective/HEARTH

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

This International Women’s Month, we’re celebrating leaders and supporters driving the future of threat hunting and detection engineering. Next up in our series is Edna Jonsson, a cybersecurity engineer and forever student of the trade, introducing DECEIVE—Splunk’s new DECeption with Evaluative Integrated Validation Engine.

DECEIVE brings AI-powered honeypots directly into the hands of security teams, opening new possibilities for proactive threat intelligence and modern detection strategies.

If you want to join our sessions live, join our community here: https://www.anvilogic.com/workshop

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.

Tune in with us for a discussion on HEARTH—a community-driven threat hunting GitHub repository that you’re going to want to fork as well as the importance of community intel-sharing.

This episode is about community, innovation, and the women leading the way in threat hunting. Happy International Womens Month! 

Check out the HEARTH community on their github here: https://github.com/THORCollective/HEARTH

If you want to join our sessions live, join our community here: https://www.anvilogic.com/workshop

Stay in the loop! Connect with us on social:

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Detection Engineering Dispatch features candid conversations with security teams at top companies on how they build, measure, and scale world-class detection programs.