Detection Engineering Dispatch
by Anvilogic
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About this podcast
Detection Engineering Dispatch is a detection engineering & threat hunting podcast featuring spicy use cases, real-world war stories, and the brilliant minds building the future of SecOps.We’re talking sharp takes, top-of-mind challenges, and community content straight from the folks pushing the limits of detection engineering, threat hunting, and everything in between.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 32 episodes
- Does the SOC have a Memory Problem?? A better approach to your field notes feat. K.C Yerrid · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 3KC Yerrid joins Detection Dispatch to break down SCOUT — a local-first, open-source analyst cockpit built around atomic notes, entity relationships, and structured investigation…
- The New Definition of Visibility & the Evolving Role of IOCs: Detection Engineering Through a UFO Lens with David Burkett · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 2Detection engineering has the same problem as UFO sightings....sometimes we think we’re seeing something, but we’re not sure what. In this UFO-themed special, Alex Hurtado and…
- The SOC Then vs Now...a 'Possible Travel' Season 2 Special Feat. Matt Konwiser & Chris Liccardi · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode, we hop in the time machine with my old friends Matt Konwiser and Chris Liccardi to break down the evolution of the SOC and explore what actually got better, what…
- Cool Story, Bro: Making Detection Engineering Matter Up the Chain · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 60A Chloe Burton special on the very human side of detection engineering. From a nonlinear path into security (neuroscience, psychology, Splunk era chaos) to leading a DE team…
- To AI SOC or NOT TO AI SOC feat. Dennis Chow · 1 h 11 min · Episode 59What if the real question isn’t “Do you need an AI SOC?” but “Are your alerts actually any good?” In this episode, Alex and Dennis Chow (Director of SecOps Engineering at UKG)…
- Spencer Pratt on Agentic RAGs + Chicago Reccs for Newbies · 38 min · Episode 58Before he ever cried on the red line, Spencer Pratt broke his own RAG index. In this episode of Detection Dispatch, Spencer Pratt (not The Hills one...this one writes detections…
- Malware Trends, Credential Soup and Scream Therapy · 37 min · Episode 57Alex and Scott Rodgers unpack the F5 breach, Mandiant M-Trends highlights like the fall of BEACON, and the leapfrogging of Stolen Creds over Phishing. Expect: The infostealer…
- What Your EDR Doesn’t See...Kostas Drops Receipts from the Telemetry Trenches · 57 min · Episode 56We unpack what modern EDRs actually deliver, where they fall short, and where to validate telemetry before you buy. EDR Telemetry Project co-founder, Kostas walks through the…
- SIEMs & Data Lakes can be friends...it isn't Either/Or, It’s Yes, And. · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 55On this Detection Dispatch, host Alex Hurtado sits down with Jake Berkowsky CTO at Snowflake to crack open one of the hottest and often misunderstood topics in modern SecOps: the…
- Detection in Flux: Riding the Chaos with Day Johnson · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 54In a world where SOCs are dissolving, job roles are glitching, and where the attack surface blurs between our work <> personal life between Slack & Discord, one thing remains…
- A New Way to UBA feat. Snowflake’s Insider Threat Team · 57 min · Episode 53Join 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…
- Prompted to Fail: When LLMs Go Rogue · 38 min · Episode 52LLMs 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…
- 5 Bitter Pills to Swallow RE: Agentic AI w/ Oliver Rochford · 60 min · Episode 51Everyone’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…
- 5 Signs You're Overengineering your Detection Logic w/ John Dempsey · 34 min · Episode 50Is 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…
- The AI Series: Inside URL Guardian—An LLM Built for Detection · 44 min · Episode 48Mike 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…
- The UEBA Illusion: Why Traditional UEBA Falls Short · 43 min · Episode 47Alex 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…
- Machine Learning-Powered Threat Hunting ft. Sydney Marrone · 31 min · Episode 46Our 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…
- DECEIVE to Defend: AI-Powered Deception feat. Edna Jonsson · 22 min · Episode 45This 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…
- HEARTH | the community-driven threat hunting project ft. Lauren Proehl · 30 min · Episode 45Tune 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…
- Kerberoasting (T1558.003) Workshop | best watched on YouTube · 40 minIn this episode, host Alex Hurtado welcomes back Andrew VanVleet, who breaks down a comprehensive approach to technique analysis using Detection Data Models (DDMs). Andrew walks…
