Detection Engineer (DE)
A specialist role that builds detection content (SIEM rules, EDR queries, threat-hunt playbooks). Required by mid-tier and enterprise SIEM. The single role with the most outsized effect on detection posture.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Detection Engineer (DE) is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Detection Engineer (DE) appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
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