Detection
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The posture pillar that measures how quickly your program notices that something bad is happening. SIEM, EDR, SOC services, and detection engineers move it. Without detection, every other capability fires too late.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Detection is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Detection 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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