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Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version)

Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version)

Alex Hurtado 5 Episodes May 30, 2026

Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) is an independent podcast focused on detection engineering and threat hunting. It features a community-first approach and highlights real, active projects that are pushing the boundaries of detection engineering, threat hunting, and related fields.

Episodes

DE on Mac Finally Has a Champion. Her name is Olivia Gallucci. May 30, 2026 2233 macOS detection engineering has had a documentation problem for years. Everyone told Olivia Gallucci she was locking herself into a platform nobody cared about. Then infostealers showed up, enterprise Mac fleets exploded, and suddenly her work was the most in-demand research nobody knew existed.Olivia is a security engineer at Datadog living inside macOS internals...from Apple Silicon boot chain t
GRC, the Passenger Princess of the SOC? feat. Ayoub Fandi May 13, 2026 3098 GRC has been called the passenger princess of security for too long. In this episode, Alex sits down with Ayoub Fandi, GRC engineer and author of the GRC Engineer newsletter, to make the case that GRC and detection engineering are solving solving the same problems and somehow still not working together.This episode covers:Why GRC plays PvE while everyone else in security plays PvP and why that act
Words are Cheap. Sense Making is Not..feat. Diego Perez May 8, 2026 4095 What happens when a philosopher walks into a SOC? Apparently, he builds one from the ground up, spends a decade making sense of detection engineering across financial services, global IR teams, and now Canva. Diego Perez is a detection engineer who studied philosophy, taught himself security at 2am with a newborn in the other room, and has been quietly writing some of the sharpest unsloppy takes o
A DE's Guide to Staying in the Loop feat. Your Favorite Detection Engineering Instructor Hayden Covington May 6, 2026 2902 Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) episode two brings on the person who treats detection engineering like an actual craft....not a vendor feature list, not a MITRE bingo card, not a vibe coded rule you ship and forget. Hayden teaches detection engineering at Antisyphony Training and runs the SOC at Black Hills Information Security, which means he's not theorizing. He's got the reps
Axios, Mythos, and a Lethal Trifecta Walk Into a SOC  feat. John Hammond Apr 28, 2026 2121 Detection Dispatch (Alex's Version) premieres with John Hammond...Huntress senior researcher, former DoD red team, the guy 2M+ people watch break attacks down in real time for the red-meets-blue conversation the week forced into existence. Alex came up blue. John came up red. They meet in the middle on the three stories eating the industry alive.In this episode we cover: Axios: one patient so

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