Dynamic policy based on user experience
AssigneeSophos Limited
InventorsJoseph H. Levy, Andrew J. Thomas, Daniel Salvatore Schiappa, Kenneth D. Ray
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Abstract
Entity models are used to evaluate potential risk of entities, either individually or in groups, in order to evaluate suspiciousness within an enterprise network. These individual or aggregated risk assessments can be used to adjust the security policy for compute instances within the enterprise network. A security policy may specify security settings such as network speed, filtering levels, network isolation, levels of privilege, and the like.
Claims20
A computer program product comprising computer executable code embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
- storing an entity model for an entity at a threat management facility for an enterprise network, the entity including at least one of an identity and access management system, a domain controller, a physical device, a user, an operating system, or an application associated with the enterprise network, and the entity model characterizing a baseline of expected events based on events from the entity over an historical window as a vector in an event vector space;
- instrumenting a compute instance associated with the entity to report event vectors based on one or more events from one or more sensors associated with the compute instance;
- receiving an event stream at the threat management facility, the event stream including a plurality of event vectors from the compute instance;
- monitoring the event stream and creating the entity model based on a baseline of event vectors for the entity in the event stream over an interval, wherein the interval is algorithmically determined;
- calculating a risk score for the compute instance based on a distance between the entity model and one or more event vectors in the event stream in the event vector space;
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- adjusting local monitoring activity on the compute instance to increase a level of local activity monitoring when the risk score indicates a deviation from the baseline.
A method, comprising:
- storing an entity model at a threat management facility for an enterprise network, the entity model characterizing expected events for an entity;
- instrumenting a compute instance in the enterprise network to detect one or more events and report a number of event vectors including the one or more events to the threat management facility;
- receiving an event stream of the number of event vectors from the compute instance at the threat management facility;
- monitoring the event stream and creating the entity model based on a baseline of event vectors for the entity in the event stream over an interval, wherein the interval is algorithmically determined;
- calculating a risk score for the compute instance based on a comparison of one or more of the event vectors in the event stream with the entity model for the entity;
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- adjusting local monitoring activity on the compute instance to increase a level of local activity monitoring when the risk score indicates a deviation from the baseline.
A system, comprising:
- a compute instance in an enterprise network, the compute instance configured to detect one or more events associated with the compute instance and to report an event vector including the one or more events to a remote resource;
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- a threat management facility, the threat management facility including a memory storing an entity model characterizing expected events for an entity, and the threat management facility configured to receive an event stream including the event vector, to monitor the event stream, to create the entity model based on a baseline of event vectors for the entity in the event stream over an algorithmically determined interval, to calculate a risk score for the compute instance based on a comparison of the event vector with the entity model, and to adjust local monitoring activity on the compute instance to increase a level of local activity monitoring when the risk score indicates a deviation from the baseline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.