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Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.

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The Detection Factory (Loop Engineering in Practice)

Tejas Paranjape joins Detection Dispatch to talk about what a detection factory can actually look like in practice and what changes when detection engineering becomes a repeatable, code driven production process rather than a collection of rules living in someone’s head. His Detection Factory breaks the work into specialized stages for writing, tuning, reviewing, testing, and shipping detections, with feedback and context carried through the process. In this episode we get into: • What a Detection Factory actually looks like and what each of its four stations does • Why detections, workflows, and infrastructure need to be represented as code if you want to automate the work • How to build quality gates and backtesting into the detection development process before anything gets shipped • Why context and institutional knowledge need to travel with the detection instead of living in the head of whoever built it • What happens when AI gets a detection mostly right but still misses something important, like an alternate log format • Why different models can have different jobs in the pipeline rather than asking one model to do everything • Where human review still matters, particularly when you are trying to catch the last few percent of problems • What workflows as code could mean for moving from detection to response at machine speed • The unexpected connection between PKI, identity, and detection engineering and why knowing what something actually is matters before you build detections around it The big picture is: “What would we have to build around it to make detection development repeatable, testable, reviewable, and trustworthy?” You can get started with ADEF here: https://github.com/Nebulock-Inc/agentic-detection-engineering-framework/blob/main/docs/methodology.md Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
13 ago

Sysmon for AI Visibility feat. Anton Ovrutksy

Anton Ovrutsky from Huntress joins Detection Dispatch to talk about ATEN, his latest open-source project to do what Sysmon did for win event telemetry to AI agents. The idea came from a pretty simple realization: as security practitioners, we’re comfortable saying “we don’t have the telemetry for that”...And there’s a LOT missing. In this episode we get into: The “what the hell did I just give Claude access to?” problem — credentials, packages, skills, and systems pile up fast when you’re just trying to get the agent to work Why process trees tell you what happened, but not what the agent was asked to doThe huge blind spot around credentials living on endpoints — especially when an agent and an infostealer can touch the same credential store How ATEN connects the prompt that started an action to the endpoint activity that followed, including a session ID to tie it together Why we may need to start thinking about agents as something like an entirely new OS running on top of the endpointThe problem with trying to reconstruct an incident across endpoint + prompt transcript + network telemetry when half of that evidence was never logged How a compromised skill or dependency can turn a seemingly normal agent workflow into a supply-chain problemWhy intent vs. action might become one of the most important detection primitives for agentic systems And the uncomfortable reality that we started giving AI agents autonomy before we had good visibility into what they were actually doingThe question goes from “What did the agent execute?” to “What did I ask it to do, what did it actually do, and what did it have access to along the way?” That feels a lot more like the telemetry problem we should have been solving from the start. Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
31 jul

There's No D3FEND for AI (So He Built One) feat. Edward Lee

Quick count: MITRE ATLAS, OWASP's Top 10s, NIST AML, Cisco's framework, MAESTRO, Databricks' AI security framework..Every org says "go do AI security," startups are popping out to sel lit to you…points you at a pile of frameworks that all describe the same handful of problems in slightly different words, and leaves you to cross-reference them yourself at 11pm. Edward Lee joins Dispatch to talk about AIDEFEND: the open-source knowledge base he built to be the thing MITRE ATT&CK has and AI security doesn't: a D3FEND. One place to search across AIDEFEND and ATLAS techniques, MAESTRO threats, every OWASP Top 10, Cisco, NIST AML, type in a keyword and see how it maps everywhere at once, instead of holding nine tabs open and doing the translation in your head. In this episode we get into: "Detect" isn't one thing — it's 16+ techniques, and only three signals actually matter: prompt-level telemetry, tool call graphs, and retrieval provenanceWhy the retrieval layer is ground zero — if you can't say what got pulled and from where, you're not reconstructing that incident, you're guessingRogue agents behave less like malware and more like an insider threat — legit permissions, illegitimate intent"Goal drift": when a tool call sequence takes a left turn that only makes sense if something got injected midstreamThe case for giving agents their own identities instead of borrowed ones — and why token usage tells you almost nothing usefulWhere to start logging with zero visibility today: proxy-level tool calls and API calls, before you even look at contentFollow Edward's work: AIDEFEND — aidefend.netAIDEFEND on GitHub — aidefend.devAI Defense Matrix (more executively friendly matrix) featured in the episode — https://aidefensematrix.com/ Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
20 jul

Your Dream Job Offer Might Depend on You Cloning/Running Malicious GitHub Repos feat. Tim Peck

The job market is s****y right now, and threat actors are exploiting exactly that. Developers are a hot target, and it cuts both ways: they'll come at you as a fake recruiter sending a "coding test" straight off GitHub, or as a fake candidate using a stolen identity to get hired and work the inside. Cloning and running a malicious repo is now just part of the interview process. Doing a human CAPTCHA to prove the person on the other end isn't AI is no longer optional. Tim Peck (Director of Research, Detections.ai) joins Dispatch to break down DEV#POPPER and the broader Contagious Interview campaign, still active, still evolving. In this episode we get into: Why this attack starts with the human and why you can't train that instinct awayWord Wrap Obfuscation: hiding payloads past the edge of the screen so scrolling through the code looked cleanWhy devs specifically get targeted: the power-full/shell languages baked into the job function itself, affiliation with crypto walletsFake candidate red flags: brand new LinkedIn profiles, awkward response lag, 4am emails, resume inconsistenciesWhat detection helps assuming breachFollow Tim's work on: Detections.aihttps://www.securonix.com/blog/analysis-of-devpopper-new-attack-campaign-targeting-software-developers-likely-associated-with-north-korean-threat-actors/Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
15 jul

Red Team Wrote a Book on Evading You. Literally. feat. Dennis Chow & Michael LaSalvia

Dennis Chow (Detection Engineering Director, back for round two) and Michael LaSalvia (red team lead) join Dispatch to talk about their new book, Evasion Engineering: Building Custom Red Team Tools for the Modern Defenses, and what happens when a blue teamer and a red teamer decide to write the playbook together instead of against each other. In this episode we get into: Why off-the-shelf adversary emulation repos are dying, and why building your own evasive tooling, not just running someone else's, makes you a fundamentally better detection engineerThe trusted advisor model: bringing blue teamers inside red team ops so trust replaces the us vs. them dynamicThe unmodified Kali header in a packet that blew a six month long campaign Shared fate as an operating model, borrowed from cloud providers, to stop punishing one side for the other's successGo (open-source programming language aka Golang supported by Google) and cross platform payloads: why Windows only red team frameworks have difficulty in keeping up with cloud and identity based attack paths Their favorite chapters to write: low and slow exfiltration, and the hybrid packer that finally got past an EDR that wouldn't quitFollow Dennis & Michael's work on: Evasion Engineering: Building Custom Red Team Tools for the Modern Defenses — available for pre-order on Packt and Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Evasion-Engineering-Building-Custom-Defenses-ebook/dp/B0GKDC57S8VM setup for adversary emulation & testing: https://github.com/Orange-Cyberdefense/GOADDetection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
7 jul

What Headless Actually Means feat. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard Founder of LimaCharlie

The definition of headless is taking shape. More software is shipping with an MCP. Teams are starting to require it in procurement. Your CLI and Claude Code can now talk directly to the tools you already run. LimaCharlie was one of the first platforms in the SOC to build everything through the command line....long before the post-Claude boom. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard (their founder) joins Dispatch to explore what going headless actually means for security operations. In this episode we get into: What headless actually means mechanically and why it's a very old computing idea security is only now fully inheritingWhy the UI becoming optional levels the playing field and kills the faith-based vendor pitchThe eager intern problem: permissions control what an agent is allowed to do, not whether its answer is rightWhy passing the MCP boundary and trusting the LLM on the other side is a front door left wide openGPT wrappers vs. real headless infrastructure: who owns the detection logic and who's just reselling tokensThe customer who told their MSSP they'd rather their CEO get locked out for 30 minutes than wait on a human to respondThe one thing Max won't let a headless agent do...everFollow Max's work on: limacharlie.io | limacharlie.io/blogLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/maximelbFree Build Your Own Headless SOC Workshop with BlackHills Infosec @ BlackHat, August 5, 2026 https://luma.com/black-hat-headless-soc-workshop?tk=crcMy4Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
4 jun

Words are Cheap. Sense Making is Not..feat. Diego Perez

What happens when a philosopher walks into a SOC? Apparently, he builds one from the ground up, spends a decade making sense of detection engineering across financial services, global IR teams, and now Canva. Diego Perez is a detection engineer who studied philosophy, taught himself security at 2am with a newborn in the other room, and has been quietly writing some of the sharpest unsloppy takes on the internet about what detection engineering actually is versus what we pretend it is. His blog Quasarops lives by one rule: words are cheap, sense making is not. We hit on: Why "garbage in, garbage out" is a heuristic that stops short of actually helping anyoneThe Cynefin framework and why knowing which detections you need lives in the complex domain, not the complicated oneDetection as code: is it overrated now that coding agents exist, or are we asking the wrong question entirelyThe Red Queen effect, Jevons' paradox, and why you do actually need AI in your SOC whether you like it or notAgentic threat hunting: whose tokens do you trust, yours or a vendor's black boxWhy the human element is more important than ever, and who exactly gets blamed when the model gets it wrong Follow Diego's substack: https://quasarops.com Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
30 may

DE on Mac Finally Has a Champion. Her name is Olivia Gallucci.

macOS detection engineering has had a documentation problem for years. Everyone told Olivia Gallucci she was locking herself into a platform nobody cared about. Then infostealers showed up, enterprise Mac fleets exploded, and suddenly her work was the most in-demand research nobody knew existed. Olivia is a security engineer at Datadog living inside macOS internals...from Apple Silicon boot chain to ESF event families to IOKit abuse....and she is single-handedly dragging macOS DE into the light. In this episode we get into: Why you can't just flag osascript anymore and what to look at insteadThe process tree trap that trips up every Windows-native DE who crosses overBackground Task Management: the persistence metadata everyone's sleeping onLiving off the Orchard binariesWhy your EDR is abstracting macOS telemetry from you and what to do about itJonathan Levin's books, Jaron Bradley's Sprite Tree, and the resources that actually matterFollow Olivia's work on: oliviagallucci.com | [ret]2read — An OS Internals Newsletter (Substack)LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/olivia-gallucci2026 main stage at BlackHat Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
13 may

GRC, the Passenger Princess of the SOC? feat. Ayoub Fandi

GRC has been called the passenger princess of security for too long. In this episode, Alex sits down with Ayoub Fandi, GRC engineer and author of the GRC Engineer newsletter, to make the case that GRC and detection engineering are solving solving the same problems and somehow still not working together. This episode covers: Why GRC plays PvE while everyone else in security plays PvP and why that actually makes them your best allyHow auditors certify 100% coverage from less than 1% of your environment Detection debt meets GRC debt: what inheriting someone else's program looks like on both sidesVibe coding, AI agents deleting production databases, and what that means for both of our jobsAyoub's newsletter and podcast: GRCengineer.com Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
6 may

A DE's Guide to Staying in the Loop feat. Your Favorite Detection Engineering Instructor Hayden Covington

Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) episode two brings on the person who treats detection engineering like an actual craft....not a vendor feature list, not a MITRE bingo card, not a vibe coded rule you ship and forget. Hayden teaches detection engineering at Antisyphony Training and runs the SOC at Black Hills Information Security, which means he's not theorizing. He's got the reps, the scars, and even a home SIEM with documentation. This is the episode for practitioners who are watching Claude write their detections and quietly wondering if they're slowly getting worse at their job. In this episode we cover: The detection lifecycle nobody actually closes: research, write, validate and the canary step that tells you whether your thousand rules are quietly dead in the water six months from now.The CTI firehose problem. When every vendor blog is just an ad wearing a threat report costume, how do you find the gold? (Hint: DFIR Report and Google TI don't need your clicks)AI writing detections: yes, with caveats. No for junior engineers who've never written a query. And absolutely not without a review agent, an experimental pipeline, and final approval from a human who still knows how to dribble the ball.Why you cannot send AI out like a Pokémon and what happens to your detection program when you try.Find Hayden at @kilobytethedust and at antisyphontraining.com. Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
28 abr

Axios, Mythos, and a Lethal Trifecta Walk Into a SOC feat. John Hammond

Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) premieres with John Hammond...Huntress senior researcher, former DoD red team, the guy 2M+ people watch break attacks down in real time for the red-meets-blue conversation the week forced into existence. Alex came up blue. John came up red. They meet in the middle on the three stories eating the industry alive. In this episode we cover: Axios: one patient social engineer, a fake founder Slack workspace, and an NPM maintainer who never stood a chance. The lethal trifecta: private data, untrusted content, network egress. When all three show up in one agent, there be dragons. Why prompt injection isn't getting solved, and what that means for your MCP sprawl.Mythos + Project GlasswingThe red teamer's detection wishlistFind John at @_JohnHammond, jh.live, and on Huntress's Declassified. Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.

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Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent detection engineering & threat hunting podcast. Rebuilt. Community-first. Featuring a lineup of the real and active projects pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.

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