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  • Process Discovery Using Built-in Tools
  • System Service Discovery through built-in Windows Utilities

- Process Discovery Using Built-in Tools
- System Service Discovery through built-in Windows Utilities
@Samirbous Samirbous self-assigned this Dec 17, 2025
@Samirbous Samirbous added Rule: Tuning tweaking or tuning an existing rule OS: Windows windows related rules bbr Building Block Rules labels Dec 17, 2025
@Samirbous Samirbous requested review from Aegrah and w0rk3r December 17, 2025 10:16
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Rule: Tuning - Guidelines

These guidelines serve as a reminder set of considerations when tuning an existing rule.

Documentation and Context

  • Detailed description of the suggested changes.
  • Provide example JSON data or screenshots.
  • Provide evidence of reducing benign events mistakenly identified as threats (False Positives).
  • Provide evidence of enhancing detection of true threats that were previously missed (False Negatives).
  • Provide evidence of optimizing resource consumption and execution time of detection rules (Performance).
  • Provide evidence of specific environment factors influencing customized rule tuning (Contextual Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements made by modifying sensitivity by changing alert triggering thresholds (Threshold Adjustments).
  • Provide evidence of refining rules to better detect deviations from typical behavior (Behavioral Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements of adjusting rules based on time-based patterns (Temporal Tuning).
  • Provide reasoning of adjusting priority or severity levels of alerts (Severity Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improving quality integrity of our data used by detection rules (Data Quality).
  • Ensure the tuning includes necessary updates to the release documentation and versioning.

Rule Metadata Checks

  • updated_date matches the date of tuning PR merged.
  • min_stack_version should support the widest stack versions.
  • name and description should be descriptive and not include typos.
  • query should be inclusive, not overly exclusive. Review to ensure the original intent of the rule is maintained.

Testing and Validation

  • Validate that the tuned rule's performance is satisfactory and does not negatively impact the stack.
  • Ensure that the tuned rule has a low false positive rate.

@Samirbous Samirbous changed the title [Tuning] Top Noisy Windows BBRS [Tuning] Top Noisy Windows BBR Dec 17, 2025
@Samirbous Samirbous merged commit f9ba8a8 into elastic:main Dec 18, 2025
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