Using an entity behavior catalog when performing distributed security operations

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• a data bus coupled to the processor;
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• 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 entity, the monitoring observing at least one electronically-observable data source;
• identifying a security related activity of the entity, the security related activity being of analytic utility;
• accessing an entity behavior catalog based upon the security related activity, the entity behavior catalog storing entity behavior catalog data, the entity behavior catalog data comprising an inventory of entity behaviors and a human-centric risk modeling framework, the human-centric risk modeling framework enabling quantification of a human-centric factor associated with the entity, the human-centric factor comprising a motivation factor, a stressor factor and an organizational dynamics stressor factor, the human-centric factor having an associated effect on the entity, the motivation factor representing a user entity behavior that provides an indication of a motivation for enacting the user entity behavior, the stressor factor representing an issue influencing the user entity behavior, the organizational stressor factor representing an event occurring within an organization affecting the user entity behavior;
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• performing a security operation via a distributed security analytics environment, the security operation being performed by at least one of an entity edge component and a security analytics system, the entity edge component executing the security operation on a hardware processor associated with the entity edge component, the security analytics system executing the security operation on a hardware processor associated with the security analytics system, the security operation using the entity behavior catalog data stored within the entity behavior catalog based upon the security related activity.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

• monitoring an entity, the monitoring observing at least one electronically-observable data source;
• identifying a security related activity of the entity, the security related activity being of analytic utility;
• accessing an entity behavior catalog based upon the security related activity, the entity behavior catalog storing entity behavior catalog data, the entity behavior catalog data comprising an inventory of entity behaviors and a human-centric risk modeling framework, the human-centric risk modeling framework enabling quantification of a human-centric factor associated with the entity, the human-centric factor comprising a motivation factor, a stressor factor and an organizational dynamics stressor factor, the human-centric factor having an associated effect on the entity, the motivation factor representing a user entity behavior that provides an indication of a motivation for enacting the user entity behavior, the stressor factor representing an issue influencing the user entity behavior, the organizational stressor factor representing an event occurring within an organization affecting the user entity behavior;
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• performing a security operation via a distributed security analytics environment, the security operation being performed by at least one of an entity edge component and a security analytics system, the entity edge component executing the security operation on a hardware processor associated with the entity edge component, the security analytics system executing the security operation on a hardware processor associated with the security analytics system, the security operation using the entity behavior catalog data stored within the entity behavior catalog based upon the security related activity.