Collecting data for centralized use in an adaptive trust profile event via an endpoint
View Patent ↗A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity.
1. A computer-implementable method for generating an adaptive trust profile, comprising:
monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint, the protected endpoint comprising an endpoint device and an endpoint agent, the endpoint agent executing on a hardware processor of the endpoint device;
converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity;
providing the electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity to a security analytics system, the security analytics system being implemented in a centralized location;
generating, via the security analytics system, the adaptive trust profile based upon the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising an inference regarding the entity, the inference regarding the entity being based upon the plurality of actions of the entity; and,
determining whether the entity behavior is of analytic utility based upon the inference regarding the entity.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the centralized location comprises at least one of a corporate data center and a cloud environment.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the security analytics system provides adaptive trust profile information to the protected endpoint.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the protected endpoint comprises an analytics module and an adaptive trust profile feature pack.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein:
the adaptive trust profile feature pack system comprises an event data detector module, an entity behavior detector module and a session correlation module.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adaptively responding to mitigate risk.
7. A system comprising:
a processor;
a data bus coupled to the processor; and
a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for:
monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint, the protected endpoint comprising an endpoint device and an endpoint agent, the endpoint agent executing on a hardware processor of the endpoint device;
converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity;
providing the electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity to a security analytics system, the security analytics system being implemented in a centralized location;
generating, via the security analytics system, the adaptive trust profile based upon the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising an inference regarding the entity, the inference regarding the entity being based upon the plurality of actions of the entity; and,
determining whether the entity behavior is of analytic utility based upon the inference regarding the entity.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein:
the centralized location comprises at least one of a corporate data center and a cloud environment.
9. The system of claim 7 , wherein:
the security analytics system provides adaptive trust profile information to the protected endpoint.
10. The system of claim 7 , wherein:
the protected endpoint comprises an analytics module and an adaptive trust profile feature pack.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein:
the adaptive trust profile feature pack system comprises an event data detector module, an entity behavior detector module and a session correlation module.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions executable by the processor are further configured for:
adaptively responding to mitigate risk.
13. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint, the protected endpoint comprising an endpoint device and an endpoint agent, the endpoint agent executing on a hardware processor of the endpoint device;
converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity;
providing the electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity to a security analytics system, the security analytics system being implemented in a centralized location;
generating, via the security analytics system, the adaptive trust profile based upon the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising an inference regarding the entity, the inference regarding the entity being based upon the plurality of actions of the entity; and,
determining whether the entity behavior is of analytic utility based upon the inference regarding the entity.
14. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein:
the centralized location comprises at least one of a corporate data center and a cloud environment.
15. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein:
the security analytics system provides adaptive trust profile information to the protected endpoint.
16. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein:
the protected endpoint comprises an analytics module and an adaptive trust profile feature pack.
17. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein:
the adaptive trust profile feature pack system comprises an event data detector module, an entity behavior detector module and a session correlation module.
18. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the computer executable instructions are further configured for:
adaptively responding to mitigate risk.
19. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein:
the computer executable instructions are deployable to a client system from a server system at a remote location.
20. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein:
the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a user on an on-demand basis.