Context aware network security monitoring for threat detection

A system for context aware network security monitoring for threat detection, the system comprising:

• at least one processor to monitor behavior of each of at least one node associated with at least one user in a network to generate a behavior profile for each of the at least one user, wherein the behavior of each of the at least one node is based on traffic flow through each of the at least one node, and wherein the traffic flow is monitored by analyzing an Internet Protocol (IP) packet header of at least one data packet that has traveled through each of the at least one node, wherein the IP packet header contains a security signature portion, the security signature portion includes geolocation information for at least one of the nodes that the data packet has passed or routed;
• compare the behavior profile for the at least one user with a baseline behavior profile for the at least one user;
• determine when there is a difference between the behavior profile for the at least one user and the baseline behavior profile for the at least one user;
• flag an event associated with the difference, when the difference at least one of exceeds a baseline threshold level, does not exceed a baseline threshold level, meets at least one criterion, and does not meet at least one criterion;
• and classify the event to an event classification;
• and
• at least one transmitter, associated with the at least one node associated with the at least one user, to transmit the event to at least one of at least one other node in the network and a network operations center.