Entity Analysis

Overview

The Entity Analysis provides the analyst with a set of metrics for investigation. Once you access an entity, you can find a summary with the the most relevant metrics: Risk Score (Last 7d), Risk Group, number of Alerts & Signals (broken down by criticality, as well as by type -Behavior, SecOps, Risk Based), number of Behavior Signals, and Associated Entities. You can also find a chart with the Risk Score over time.

Open

Clicking the arrow beside the Associated Entities will open a panel on the right, which shows them as a list that can be filtered and interacted with to access other entities.

Open

Visualization

At the top left of the bottom area, there’s an expandable menu to select the desired visualization mode.

Timeline view

The timeline view displays triggered alerts sorted by time, showing the most recent first. Users can filter alerts by several categories, including name, risk level, category, tactic, and technique. To further investigate the alert, users can click on toggle at the very right of the alert name to query the alert inside their Query App.

Within the Timeline you can expand each alert to drill down and get more details about the alert definition and associated context gathered when the alert triggered. The alert can be accessed to quickly show the description of what the alert is detecting, its LINQ query, and the associated data that contains other valuable context. If you want to drill down further into the alert you can click on the magnifying glass button to pivot into Devo’s data search window to view the raw events that triggered the alert.

Mitre view

The MITRE view helps you to better understand the entity’s progression towards its increased risk. It overlays the entity’s alerts over the MITRE matrix, with the tactics and techniques related to the triggered alerts. Use this view to see how the entity has progressed in the ATT&CK framework and craft an attacker story.

Techniques will be highlighted and color-coded according to the triggered alerts related to each of them. Clicking on a detected technique will open a side panel to provide info about the subset of alerts matching that technique.

To help you navigate the matrix, you have a checkbox at the top right to filter out undetected tactics and techniques. At the top left, you have zoom buttons for a more user-friendly interaction.

Associations view

The Associations view displays the set of associated entities in a node-link graph. Each node represents an entity. Each link between entities indicates that the pair of entities were both involved in the same alert or signal.

Hovering over an entity reveals two buttons:

• Load Connections (“+”): click this button to search for more entities associated with the entity in question. If any are found, those entities will be added to the graph. 

• Go To Entity Analysis (“>”): click this button to navigate the details page for the entity in question.

At the bottom left of the Associations view, there is a blue box with the count of entities included in the graph. Clicking it reveals a side panel listing them in a table format. From this table, you can customize the graph by checking the boxes of the entities you want to show (maximum of 500).

Investigation

Since an entity was identified as the highest risk entity in the Entity Dashboard, we double down into her entity page to further investigate the root cause of the entity’s high risk score. To begin investigating, first choose the time range you would like to see at the very top of the page (we have chosen a 7-day time frame). The time range is reflected in all the views.

You can use the Timeline view to portray a chronological framework for the entity and its alerts. You can use the MITRE view to contextualize the entity and its alerts within the MITRE framework to identify its characteristics. You can use the Associations view to identify how far the entity can expand by proximity with other entities.