Most modern SIEMs offer 2 primary methods for running their queries: real time rules and scheduled queries. Each option offers a variety of pros and cons that you should consider as you develop your detection. Before we dive into that, let’s clarify what we mean by each.

Disclaimer I currently work at Snowflake and use the product on a daily basis for log analysis and threat detection. At the time of this writing, that probably adds bias to my article.

I think an important question that Tavis either explicitly or accidentally omitted is “for whom”. I am not sure why he did not include this as it’s a critical component to his argument. If Tavis is stating that “SMS 2FA is ineffective for an enterprise”, then I would agree. The threat model that he is operating from is that an organization is being explicitly targeted by a motivated (though not necessarily extremely capable) attacker, who only needs minimal access…