The Fundamentals of Building a Threat Detection and Response Program

The Fundamentals of Building a Threat Detection and Response Program

Last month, the Rapid7 team kicked off a learning series focused on building and ramping a threat detection and response program. Whether your organization is newly ready to evolve beyond just firewalls and antivirus, or actively investing in maturing SOC operations, this series has something for any business that wants to improve their ability to respond to threats.

In this post, we’ll summarize some of the key takeaways for businesses looking to further their threat detection and response programs, as well as provide helpful resources that will help you along the way.


What is threat detection and response?


Threat detection is an organization’s ability to recognize when they are compromised, and “response” is everything that happens once that potential threat is identified.


Many organizations may not feel urgency to ramp up a threat detection and response program because they are confident in the prevention defenses they have in place to keep intruders out. Preparation and prevention are important pieces of any security program, but even with the best defenses, no organization is impenetrable. A strong threat detection and response program combines people, processes, and technology to recognize signs of breach as early as possible, and take the best possible action. As Rapid7 Principal Threat Researcher Wade Woolwine comments in our Threat Detection and Response 101 panel discussion, “Detection and response is where people join forces with technology to address a breach.”


Find more of an introductory threat detection overview here.


With definitions out of the way, let’s shift gears to talk about building an effective threat detection and response p ..

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