Detect Insider Threats and Compromised Accounts Through Behavioral Analytics
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) establishes behavioral baselines for users and entities across your environment — detecting anomalous activity that indicates insider threats, compromised credentials, privilege escalation, and lateral movement that rules-based detection misses.
What RLM Delivers on UEBA
UEBA catches the threats that signature-based detection can't: the legitimate user account doing something it's never done, the service account accessing unusual systems, the executive downloading large volumes of sensitive data at 2 AM. RLM advises on UEBA platform selection and integration with your detection program.
How We Approach UEBA
Our security advisory runs from discovery and market evaluation through vendor selection and post-deployment optimization — scoped to the UEBA decision in front of you.
Threat Model & Use Case Prioritization
We define the insider threat and compromised account scenarios most relevant to your organization — data theft, privilege escalation, account takeover, lateral movement — and prioritize the UEBA use cases with the highest risk-reduction value.
Platform Evaluation
We evaluate UEBA platforms — Exabeam, Microsoft Sentinel UEBA, Securonix, Splunk UBA, and UEBA capabilities within broader XDR platforms — against your data sources, detection requirements, and integration with existing security tooling.
Baseline & Model Configuration
UEBA effectiveness depends on quality behavioral baselines. We design the baseline configuration approach — peer group definition, entity categorization, and the risk scoring model that surfaces genuinely anomalous behavior.
Alert Triage & Investigation Workflow
UEBA generates risk scores that require analyst investigation. We design the triage workflow — risk threshold alerting, investigation playbooks, and escalation criteria — that converts UEBA signals into security outcomes.
UEBA Evaluation Criteria
The questions below are the ones that decide whether a UEBA investment pays back — and the ones vendors are least eager to answer.
Data Source Breadth
UEBA accuracy improves with more behavioral data — authentication logs, DLP events, email activity, cloud application usage, and endpoint telemetry all contribute. Evaluate the platform's data source coverage for your specific environment.
False Positive Management
UEBA systems that generate excessive false positives create alert fatigue. Evaluate the tuning mechanisms — peer group refinement, exception management, and risk threshold configuration — that maintain detection fidelity.
Baseline Learning Period
UEBA requires a baseline learning period — typically 30-90 days — before reliable detection is possible. Evaluate the onboarding timeline and the data requirements for building accurate behavioral baselines in your environment.
Integration with SIEM/SOAR
UEBA risk scores are most valuable when integrated into your SIEM investigation workflow. Evaluate native SIEM integration quality and the data model that enriches alert context with behavioral risk scores.
Privileged Account Coverage
High-risk accounts — administrators, service accounts, executives — should receive enhanced UEBA coverage. Evaluate the platform's ability to apply differential monitoring intensity based on account risk classification.
Entity Coverage Beyond Users
Modern UEBA should model service accounts, endpoints, and applications — not just human users. Evaluate the non-human entity coverage that detects compromised service accounts and lateral movement by automated processes.
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Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in security engagements.
A Sample of the Security Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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