# siem-detection

Engineers and audits SIEM detection rules across Sigma, KQL, SPL, and Elastic, mapping coverage against MITRE ATT&CK.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 330 installs · ★ 435
- Author: briiirussell
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/siem-detection

## What it does

The skill structures detection engineering workflows for platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, and Elastic. It audits telemetry collected from endpoints, cloud APIs, and identity providers to highlight blind spots before you write queries.

Detection logic centers on canonical Sigma rules that translate into KQL, SPL, or ES|QL via tools like `sigma-cli` or `pySigma`. Rules are tagged with MITRE ATT&CK technique IDs and organized for Git repos and CI test automation under a detection-as-code workflow.

This skill deliberately ignores live alert triage and SOC shift management. It acts purely as the engineering layer for authoring and tuning rules, meaning you will need separate tooling for handling active incidents.

## Requirements
- Works with: Splunk

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill siem-detection -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/siem-detection/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill siem-detection -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill siem-detection -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills siem-detection
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill siem-detection -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --path skills/siem-detection
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill siem-detection -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/siem-detection/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit telemetry sources against MITRE ATT&CK matrices
- author canonical detection rules in Sigma format
- translate Sigma rules into KQL, SPL, or Elastic ES|QL
- organize detection-as-code workflows with CI testing

## Example prompts
- Write a Sigma rule to detect an IAM user creation immediately followed by an admin policy attachment in CloudTrail
- Convert this KQL password spray detection query into Splunk SPL
- Check what telemetry sources we need to observe MITRE ATT&CK technique T1136.003

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# SIEM Detection — Detection Engineering

Build, audit, and maintain SIEM detection content — the rules that fire alerts. Distinct from `incident-triage` (responds when alerts fire) and from `soc-operations` (runs the SOC that triages alerts). This skill is the engineering layer: log coverage, rule authoring, tuning, and detection-as-code workflows.

Cross-references: `incident-triage` for what happens after the alert, `threat-hunting` for proactive hypothesis-driven hunts that often graduate into detection rules, `breach-patterns` for detection ideas pulled from public breach disclosures, `soc-operations` for the alert-triage operations on top of the detections engineered here.

## Scope

This skill covers:
- Log source coverage assessment ("are we even collecting the events we'd need to detect X?")
- Rule authoring across major SIEM query languages (Sigma, KQL, SPL, Elastic ES|QL, Chronicle YARA-L)
- MITRE ATT&CK mapping — every rule tagged with technique IDs for coverage analysis
- Detection-as-code workflows (rules in Git, CI tests, deployment automation)
- Alert tuning workflow — reducing false positives without losing true positives
- Coverage gap analysis using ATT&CK Navigator

This skill does NOT cover:
- Live alert triage (that's `incident-triage`)
- Building a SOC team or alert escalation criteria (`soc-operations`)
- Active threat hunting (`threat-hunting`)

## Methodology

### Step 1: Map log sources to ATT&CK coverage

Before writing any rule, audit what you can detect.

**Categorize log sources by what they observe:**

| Category | Sources | Observes |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoint | EDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Defender), Sysmon, osquery | Process exec, file write, network, registry, parent-child |
| Network | Zeek/Bro, Suricata, NSM, firewall, DNS query logs | Connections, protocols, DNS queries, TLS metadata |
| Identity | Okta, Entra ID, AD, Auth0, GCP/AWS sign-in | Authentications, MFA, group changes, role assignments |
| Cloud | CloudTrail (AWS), Audit Logs (GCP), Activity Log (Azure) | API calls — what was created/changed/deleted |
| Application | App logs, WAF logs, load balancer logs, gateway logs | Request URLs, status codes, auth outcomes |
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