Verified credential
Certified Detection Engineer & Threat Hunter (CDETH)
Awarded to Tate Pannam on July 28, 2026
The Certified Detection Engineer & Threat Hunter (CDETH) credential validates practical detection engineering and threat hunting skill across file, network, and behavioral detection.
Holders have demonstrated hands-on capability with YARA, Snort, and Sigma rule development, alert classification with written justification, regex pattern construction, and adversary emulation testing against real malware samples and TTPs across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Criteria
To earn the CDETH certification, candidates completed 16 instructor-reviewed challenges across real datasets and real TTPs. Required work included:
- Classifying alerts as true positive or false positive with written justification
- Writing regex patterns and explaining why each pattern works
- Authoring YARA rules against indicators of compromise
- Writing or tuning Sigma rules with detection logic explanations
- Providing emulation tests for adversary tactics across the MITRE ATT&CK framework