CrowdStrike Boosts SOC Detection Content with Correlation Rule Template Discovery Dashboard

CrowdStrike is introducing the Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard in CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM to help security teams discover, adopt, and operationalize high-value detection content faster than ever.

Today’s organizations are under constant pressure to stay ahead of evolving adversary tactics. They’re also ingesting security telemetry from dozens of sources: cloud platforms, endpoints, network devices, identity systems, and third-party applications. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM provides the capabilities security teams need with more than 1,000 correlation rule templates to harness detection content across cloud platforms, endpoints, networks, identity systems, and third-party applications.

Correlation rules in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM are a  powerful way to unify detections and identify threats across diverse data sources. Now, CrowdStrike is empowering customers to discover and use the rules that matter most to their unique environment to deliver faster, more precise detection outcomes.

This centralized hub makes it easier for Falcon Next-Gen SIEM customers to find the right templates, aligned with data sources they’ve already onboarded, so they can accelerate detection.

A Centralized Discovery Experience

The Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard provides customers with a streamlined way to discover correlation rule templates that are aligned with their existing data sources. Instead of navigating through a large rule library, analysts see rule templates that map directly to the log types and telemetry already onboarded into their environment. This ensures detection efforts are always relevant, reducing wasted cycles and accelerating time-to-value. 

This intelligent approach provides an automated, precision-driven workflow that delivers immediate security value. Additionally, the dashboard highlights curated CrowdStrike blogs, threat research, attack trend analysis, and detection insights in one place to deliver actionable insights in a single, streamlined experience.

Precision Through Search and Filter

To further support efficiency, the dashboard includes customizable search and filtering capabilities. Customers can quickly home in on the templates most applicable to their needs, whether by focusing on specific data sources, detection categories, MITRE ATT&CK® tactics, or severity levels. This precision-driven approach allows detection engineers to rapidly identify and prioritize the content that will deliver the greatest impact within their environments.

Three Real-World Use Cases: From Discovery to Detection

Let's explore how the dashboard addresses three critical SOC workflows:

1. Streamlined Detection Content Discovery for SOC Teams

The scenario: Your SOC has diverse data sources including cloud logs, endpoint telemetry, and network data but struggles to identify which detection content is relevant to your specific environment.

The solution: The dashboard automatically maps available templates to your existing data sources, eliminating guesswork and ensuring detection efforts focus on immediately applicable content. The "Applicable Templates" counter shows exactly how many templates can be deployed in your environment, while detailed compatibility analysis reveals which templates work with your current data infrastructure.

The result: Instead of manually reviewing hundreds of templates, your team focuses only on content that provides immediate security value, reducing evaluation time by 80% and accelerating time-to-detection¹.

2. Threat-Based Template Selection

The scenario: Your team needs to focus on specific threat categories (e.g., credential access, lateral movement) or respond to particular attack campaigns targeting your industry.

The solution: The dashboard's customizable search and filtering capabilities enable filtering by MITRE ATT&CK tactics, severity levels, campaign details, and specific vendors or products. This allows SOC teams to rapidly identify and prioritize the content that will deliver the largest impact against current threat priorities.

The result: Your team strategically implements detection capabilities aligned with threat intelligence and risk priorities, ensuring your security posture evolves with the threat landscape.

3. Seamless Template-to-Rule Process

The scenario: Your SOC team has identified relevant templates but needs to efficiently test, tune, and deploy them as active correlation rules without disrupting existing operations.

The solution: The dashboard provides an end-to-end workflow from template discovery to actionable detections through integrated quick actions:

• Test queries against historical data to understand alert volumes
• Create new rules directly from templates with optimized configurations
• Review existing rules to avoid duplication
• Follow guided enablement steps for systematic testing and tuning

The result: Templates can be directly leveraged to create correlation rules that trigger detections within the customer's own Customer ID. This seamless process empowers SOC teams to move quickly from template discovery to actionable detections, closing the gap between content availability and operational security outcomes.

Always Current: Newly Released and Updated Templates

The Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard also highlights newly released and updated templates, ensuring customers can easily take advantage of the latest detection content. Recently released templates are marked with “new” indicators, while updated content displays “updated” markers, as shown in the image below.

By surfacing this information directly within the dashboard, CrowdStrike eliminates the guesswork, provides clear visibility into the most recent additions, and keeps security teams aligned with emerging threats and best practices.

The Template List table provides immediate action options for each template through dashboard interactions, allowing customers to:

• Run Query to test template logic against historical data to identify tuning opportunities and understand expected detection volumes
• Visit Template Page to navigate directly to the template within the Next-Gen SIEM Templates UI for rule creation and configuration
• Select Template to view template description, search query, and detailed metadata, and enable other actions within the dashboard

These integrated actions exemplify the dashboard's comprehensive interactive design, with similar quick actions and filters available across multiple widgets. This eliminates the need to navigate between multiple interfaces and encourages exploration to unlock the full potential of the dashboard's streamlined workflows for template discovery, evaluation, and implementation.

Comprehensive Visibility and Control

Beyond template discovery, the dashboard provides SOC teams with unprecedented visibility into their detection infrastructure:

• Template compatibility analysis: See exactly which templates work with current data sources
• MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping: Visualize detection coverage across the complete attack lifecycle
• Data source health monitoring: Track ingestion volumes and identify connectivity issues before they impact detection capabilities
• Interactive exploration: Drill down from high-level metrics to specific template details and implementation guidance

Measurable Impact on Security Operations

Early adopters of the Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard report significant improvements in key security metrics¹:

• 90% reduction in time spent discovering relevant detection content
• 75% faster template-to-rule deployment cycles
• 60% improvement in MITRE ATT&CK coverage completeness
• 85% reduction in false positive rates through guided template optimization

Getting Started

The Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard is available now to all Falcon Next-Gen SIEM customers. Access the dashboard through the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM console to begin discovering, evaluating, and implementing CrowdStrike's comprehensive library of correlation rule templates.

A quick walkthrough of the dashboard in this demo provides further insights into how this dashboard is used:

With the Correlation Rule Template Discovery dashboard, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM makes it easier than ever for SOC teams to turn detection content into real security outcomes. By combining intelligent discovery, powerful search and filter options, and continuous visibility into new templates, the dashboard accelerates time-to-detection and reduces wasted cycles.

In today’s threat landscape, speed and precision are essential. This dashboard helps SOC teams stop spending time finding content and focus their time and efforts on stopping breaches.

Additional Resources

• Find correlation rule templates built to detect SCATTERED SPIDER's evolving TTPs in Defending Against SCATTERED SPIDER with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
• Learn about detecting VMware vCenter attacks with correlation rule templates in How Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Protects Enterprises from VMware vCenter Attacks.
• Discover how Falcon Next-Gen SIEM can elevate your security operations in The Complete Guide to Next-Gen SIEM.

1. These numbers are projected estimates of average benefit based on internal testing and vetting with the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR team. Actual realized value will depend on individual customer’s module deployment and environment.