How do I test that our network detection actually works?
Generate harmless versions of the behaviour it should catch, on a test host you own, and check what alerts appear and how quickly. Start simple and announce the test to anyone who might react. A port scan from a spare laptop against your own subnet should be flagged. A script that calls the same outside test server every few minutes for an hour imitates beaconing. Copying a large archive from a test server to an external storage account at night imitates data theft. Write down what you did, when, and what the tool raised, then review the alert text: would a colleague know what to do? Repeat after major changes to the network or the tool. Breach and attack simulation (BAS) automates such tests. NetSenX includes BAS from the Business plan; on every plan you can run manual tests like these against the detections it raises.