Practical SIEM Use Cases: 100 Detection Rules Every Security Engineer Should Know - Softcover

Rayithi, Mohan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798173183972

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Most SIEM implementations fail.

Not because of missing tools.
Not because of lack of data.
But because teams don’t know what actually matters.

This book fixes that.

Practical SIEM Use Cases is a field-tested guide for security engineers, SOC analysts, and blue teams who want to move beyond noisy alerts and start building real detections that work in production.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• How attackers actually behave across systems
• Why most alerts are useless—and how to fix them
• How to detect credential abuse, lateral movement, insider threats, and ransomware early
• How to connect weak signals into high-confidence detections
• How to design a SIEM that delivers outcomes, not noise

This is not theory.
This is not a certification guide.

This is how detection works in real environments.

If you want to think like a detection engineer—and build detections that actually catch attacks—this book will change how you see logs forever.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798173183972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183