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US 10,855,693 B2Granted
Using an adaptive trust profile to generate inferences
AssigneeForcepoint LLC
InventorRichard A. Ford
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Abstract
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 an electronically-observable action of an entity, the electronically-observable action of the entity corresponding to an event enacted by the entity; converting the electronically-observable action of the entity to electronic information representing the action of the entity; generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity; and, deriving an inference regarding the action of the entity using the adaptive trust profile.
Claims17
A computer-implementable method for generating an adaptive trust profile, comprising:
- monitoring an electronically-observable action of an entity, the electronically-observable action of the entity corresponding to an event enacted by the entity, the entity comprising a user entity, the user entity enacting a user behavior;
- converting the electronically-observable action of the entity to electronic information representing the action of the entity;
- generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising a collection of information that describes a particular user entity, the collection of information comprising at least one of a user profile attribute, a user behavior factor and a user mindset factor;
- generating a user entity mindset profile for the particular entity, the user entity mindset profile representing aspects of the particular entity that are inferred based upon the electronically-observable user behavior, the mindset profile being generated using the adaptive trust profile;
- deriving an inference regarding the action of the entity using the adaptive trust profile;
- performing a security analytics operation via a security analytics system, the security analytics system executing on a hardware processor of an information handling system, the security analytics operation using the inference regarding the entity to determine whether a particular event is of analytic utility, the particular event being of analytic utility indicating the action of the entity represents a security risk;
- and,
- mitigating the security risk via the security analytics system based upon the inference when the particular event is of analytic utility.
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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 an electronically-observable action of an entity, the electronically-observable action of the entity corresponding to an event enacted by the entity, the entity comprising a user entity, the user entity enacting a user behavior;
- converting the electronically-observable action of the entity to electronic information representing the action of the entity;
- generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising a collection of information that describes a particular user entity, the collection of information comprising at least one of a user profile attribute, a user behavior factor and a user mindset factor;
- generating a user entity mindset profile for the particular entity, the user entity mindset profile representing aspects of the particular entity that are inferred based upon the electronically-observable user behavior, the mindset profile being generated using the adaptive trust profile;
- deriving an inference regarding the action of the entity using the adaptive trust profile;
- performing a security analytics operation via a security analytics system, the security analytics system executing on a hardware processor of an information handling system, the security analytics operation using the inference regarding the entity to determine whether a particular event is of analytic utility, the particular event being of analytic utility indicating the action of the entity represents a security risk;
- and,
- mitigating the security risk via the security analytics system based upon the inference when the particular event is of analytic utility.
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A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
- monitoring an electronically-observable action of an entity, the electronically-observable action of the entity corresponding to an event enacted by the entity, the entity comprising a user entity, the user entity enacting a user behavior;
- converting the electronically-observable action of the entity to electronic information representing the action of the entity;
- generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising a collection of information that describes a particular user entity, the collection of information comprising at least one of a user profile attribute, a user behavior factor and a user mindset factor;
- generating a user entity mindset profile for the particular entity, the user entity mindset profile representing aspects of the particular entity that are inferred based upon the electronically-observable user behavior, the mindset profile being generated using the adaptive trust profile;
- deriving an inference regarding the action of the entity using the adaptive trust profile
- performing a security analytics operation via a security analytics system, the security analytics system executing on a hardware processor of an information handling system, the security analytics operation using the inference regarding the entity to determine whether a particular event is of analytic utility, the particular event being of analytic utility indicating the action of the entity represents a security risk;
- and,
- mitigating the security risk via the security analytics system based upon the inference when the particular event is of analytic utility.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.