User Behavior Analytics Best Practices

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UBA Best Practices

  • Identify the existing sources of data on user behavior, including logs, data warehouses, network flow data, etc. The more data you have, the better.
  • Integrate data from other monitoring systems, such as advanced threat management and HR customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
  • Enable Active Directory auditing to track who is doing what across your critical systems.
  • Enable auditing for all systems that contain sensitive information, including your file servers, SharePoint, SQL servers, etc.
  • If you are using SaaS applications, enable access and user activity logging.
  • Track account creation and account logons, because such activity can reveal account takeovers and other attacks.
  • Enable journaling on your email server and use e-discovery software for email flow analytics.
  • Regularly review effective permissions and enforce a least-privilege model.
  • Track and control your users’ internet traffic via web filtering software.
  • Provide your UBA solution with all the data mentioned above. Fine-tune its rules, alerts, reports and thresholds to reduce noise and false-positive anomalies.
  • Review UBA reports on anomalous activity regularly and investigate incidents promptly.

 

Challenges for securing the modern IT environment

  • Companies lack visibility into employee activity and application usage across critical IT systems.
  • Legacy defense strategies are typically focused on the perimeter, so they fail to identify insider threats or attacks in progress within the network.
  • Security teams are often overwhelmed by the huge volume of audit logs generated every day, increasing the risk that important actions can be missed.
  • Most legacy security applications, such as SIEM solutions, are time-consuming to use.
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