Mature security organizations treat detections as code (Detection-as-Code). The architect establishes a CI/CD pipeline for detection rules: rules are written in Sigma or SPL, stored in Git, and pushed through automated testing (attack emulation with Atomic Red Team or similar) before being promoted to production.
This pipeline enables detection versioning, rollback capability, peer review, and auditability. When a detection is found to cause false positives, the pipeline can roll back to the previous version in minutes rather than requiring manual SPL edits. The architect integrates this pipeline with Splunk Enterprise Security via the REST API for automated deployment.