Detection engineering is finally a discipline. It needs to act like one.
We have the title, the tooling, and the conference track. We do not yet have shared standards for what good looks like.
Five years ago, detection engineering was a side quest for senior SOC analysts. Today it is a job title with its own tooling vendors. The maturation is real and overdue.
What is still missing is a shared definition of quality. Without it, two teams using the same words mean entirely different things.
