Best User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software of 2025

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    Cynet All-in-One Cybersecurity Platform Reviews
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    Cynet equips MSPs and MSSPs with a fully managed, all-in-one cybersecurity platform that brings together essential security functions in a single, user-friendly solution. By consolidating these capabilities, Cynet simplifies cybersecurity management, reduces complexity, and lowers costs, eliminating the need for multiple vendors and integrations. With multi-layered breach protection, Cynet delivers robust security for endpoints, networks, and SaaS/Cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive defense against evolving threats. Its advanced automation enhances incident response, enabling swift detection, prevention, and resolution. Supported by a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), Cynet’s CyOps team provides continuous monitoring and expert guidance to keep client environments secure. Partnering with Cynet allows you to deliver cutting-edge, proactive cybersecurity services while improving operational efficiency. See how Cynet can redefine your security offerings and empower your clients today.
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    Safetica Reviews
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    Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it. Safetica is a global software company that provides Data Loss Prevention and Insider Risk Management solutions to organizations. ✔️ Know what to protect: Accurately pinpoint personally identifiable information, intellectual property, financial data, and more, wherever it is utilized across the enterprise, cloud, and endpoint devices. ✔️ Prevent threats: Identify and address risky activities through automatic detection of unusual file access, email interactions, and web activity. Receive the alerts necessary to proactively identify risks and prevent data breaches. ✔️ Secure your data: Block unauthorized exposure of sensitive personal data, trade secrets, and intellectual property. ✔️ Work smarter: Assist teams with real-time data handling cues as they access and share sensitive information.
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    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Reviews
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    ADAudit Plus provides full visibility into all activities and helps to keep your Windows Server ecosystem safe and compliant. ADAudit Plus gives you a clear view of all changes to your AD resources, including AD objects and their attributes, group policies, and more. AD auditing can help you detect and respond to insider threats, privilege misuse, or other indicators of compromise. You will have a detailed view of everything in AD, including users, computers, groups and OUs, GPOs. Audit user management actions, including deletion, password resets and permission changes. Also, details about who, what, when and where. To ensure that users have only the minimum privileges, keep track of who is added and removed from security or distribution groups.
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    CrowdStrike Falcon Reviews
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    CrowdStrike Falcon, a cloud-native security platform, provides advanced protection from a wide range cyber threats including malware, ransomware and sophisticated attacks. It uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and incident response to detect and respond in real-time to threats. The platform uses a lightweight, agent-based solution that continuously monitors the endpoints to detect malicious activity. This provides visibility and protection with minimal impact on system performance. Falcon's cloud architecture ensures rapid updates, scalability and rapid threat response in large, distributed environments. Its comprehensive security capabilities help organizations detect, prevent, and mitigate cyber risks. This makes it a powerful tool in modern enterprise cybersecurity.
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    IBM QRadar SIEM Reviews
    The market-leading SIEM is built to outpace your adversary in terms of speed, scale, and accuracy SOC analysts' roles are more important than ever as digital threats grow and cyber adversaries become more sophisticated. QRadar SIEM goes beyond threat detection and reaction to help security teams face today’s threats proactively. It does this with advanced AI, powerful intelligence and access to cutting edge content. IBM has a SIEM that will meet your needs, whether you are looking for a cloud-native solution with hybrid scale and speed, or a solution that complements your on-premises architecture. IBM's enterprise-grade AI is designed to increase the efficiency and expertise for every security team. With QRadar SIEM analysts can reduce repetitive tasks such as case creation and risk priority to focus on critical investigations and remediation efforts.
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    Imperva Data Security Fabric Reviews
    Protect data at scale using a multicloud, hybrid, enterprise-class security solution for all types of data. Extend the data security across hybrid, multicloud and on-premises environments. Discover and classify unstructured, semi-structured & structured data. Prioritize data risks for incident context as well as additional data capabilities. Centralize data management via a single data service or dashboard. Protect data from exposure and avoid breaches. Simplify data-centric compliance, governance, and security. Unify the view to gain insight into at-risk data, users and data. Monitor Zero Trust and policy enforcement. Automated workflows and automation can save you time and money. Support for hundreds file shares and data repositories, including public, datacenter, and third-party cloud service. Cover your immediate needs and future integrations, as you transform or extend cloud use cases.
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    Microsoft Defender for Identity Reviews
    Security Operations teams can help protect on-premise identities and correlate signals to Microsoft 365 using Microsoft Defender For Identity. It helps eliminate vulnerabilities on-premises to prevent attacks from happening. Security Operations teams can make the most of their time by understanding the most serious threats. Security Operations can prioritize information to help them focus on real threats and not false signals. Microsoft Defender for Identity provides cloud-powered intelligence and insights at every stage of an attack's lifecycle. With Microsoft Defender for Identity, Security Operations can help identify and resolve configuration vulnerabilities. Secure Score integrates identity security posture management assessments directly with Secure Score for visibility. The user investigation priority score is based on the number of incidents and risky behavior that has been observed in an organization. It allows you to prioritize the most dangerous users.
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    RevealSecurity Reviews
    Reveal Security ITDR detects identity threats - post authentication - in and across SaaS applications and cloud services. Powered by unsupervised machine learning, it continuously monitors and validates the behavior of trusted human users, APIs and other entities, accurately detecting anomalies that signal an in-progress identity threat.
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    Varonis Data Security Platform Reviews
    The most powerful way to monitor and protect sensitive data at large scale. The all-in-one data security solution that doesn't slow down will help you reduce risk and detect abnormal behavior. You get a platform, a team, an approach, and a plan that gives you every advantage. Classification, access governance, and behavioral analytics all work together to secure data, prevent threats, and ease the burden of compliance. Our proven method to monitor, protect and manage your data is backed by thousands of successful rollouts. Hundreds of security professionals are able to create advanced threat models, update policies, and assist in incidents, allowing you to concentrate on other priorities.
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    Stellar Cyber Reviews
    On premises, in public cloud, with hybrid environments, and from SaaS infrastructure. Stellar Cyber is the only security platform that provides high-speed, high-fidelity threat detection with automated response across the entire attack area. Stellar Cyber's industry-leading security platform improves security operations productivity, allowing security analysts to eliminate threats in minutes instead if days or weeks. Stellar Cyber's platform accepts data inputs from both existing cybersecurity solutions and its own capabilities and correlating them to present actionable results under a single intuitive interface. This helps security analysts reduce tool fatigue and data overload. It also helps cut operational costs.
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    Wing Security Reviews
    Wing Security’s SSPM solution has a wide array of features, critical to ensuring the safety and ongoing management of a company’s SaaS usage. Wing Security offers complete access to near real-time threat intelligence alerts, monitoring for sensitive data sharing, mapping of in-house developed SaaS applications and more. Beyond the free version, which provides unmatched visibility, control, and compliance features to protect any organization's defense against contemporary SaaS-related threats, Wing’s complete SSPM solution includes unlimited application discovery, comprehensive risk detection, and automated remediation capabilities. This empowers security professionals to not just have complete oversight of their SaaS usage but also to take immediate action.
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    ActivTrak Reviews

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    Birch Grove Software

    $10/user/month billed annually
    5 Ratings
    ActivTrak is a cloud-native workforce intelligence platform that transforms work activity data into actionable insights for employee monitoring, productivity and performance management, and workforce planning capabilities that deliver measurable ROI. Deployment is quick and easy — start collecting data in minutes.
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    DNIF HYPERCLOUD Reviews
    DNIF offers a high-value solution by combining technologies like SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR in one product with an extremely low total cost ownership. DNIF's hyper-scalable data lake is ideal for ingesting and storing terabytes. Statistics can be used to detect suspicious activity and take action prior to any damage occurring. From a single dashboard, you can orchestrate people, processes and technology initiatives. Your SIEM comes with dashboards, reports, and workflows for response. Coverage for threat hunting and compliance, user behavior monitoring, network traffic anomaly, and network traffic anomaly. Coverage map using MITRE ATT&CK framework and CAPEC. Double, triple or even quadruple your logging capability with your current budget. With HYPERCLOUD you can forget about worrying about missing important information. Log everything and leave nothing behind.
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    Teramind Reviews

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    Teramind

    $12/month/user
    Teramind provides a user-centric security approach to monitoring your employees’ digital behavior. Our software streamlines employee data collection in order to identify suspicious activity, improve employee productivity, detect possible threats, monitor employee efficiency, and ensure industry compliance. We help reduce security incidents using highly customizable Smart Rules that can alert, block or lockout users when rule violations are detected, to keep your business running securely and efficiently. Our live and recorded screen monitoring lets you see user actions as they’re happening or after they’ve occurred with video-quality session recordings that can be used to review a security or compliance event, or to analyze productivity behaviors. Teramind can be installed in minutes and can be deployed either without employees knowing or with full transparency and employee control to maintain trust.
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    cux.io Reviews

    cux.io

    cux.io

    €79 per month
    CUX in nutshell: ✔ User Behavior Analysis ✔ Experience Metrics ✔ Goal-Oriented Analysis ✔ Conversion Waterfalls ✔ Entire Visits Recording ✔ Heatmaps ✔ Pre-analysis & Alerts ✔ Auto-capture Events ✔ Retroactive Analysis ✔ 100% GDPR-compliant ✔ Data stored in EOG ✔ SSL secured
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    Veriato Workforce Behavior Analytics Reviews
    One platform allows you to monitor productivity, conduct investigations, and protect yourself against insider risks. Our powerful workforce analytics will give you visibility into the activity of your remote or hybrid employees. Veriato's workforce behavior analytics go far beyond passive monitoring. They analyze productivity, monitor insider risks and much more. Easy-to-use, powerful tools to keep your office, hybrid, and remote teams productive. Veriato’s AI-powered algorithms analyze user behavior patterns, and alert you to any suspicious or abnormal activity. Assign productivity scores for websites, programs and applications. Choose between three types: Continuous, Keyword Triggered, and Activity Triggered. Track local, removable and cloud storage as well as printing operations. Files can be viewed when they are created, modified, deleted or renamed.
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    InterGuard Employee Monitoring Reviews

    InterGuard Employee Monitoring

    Awareness Technologies

    $8.00/month/user
    As more companies embrace the trend of allowing employees to work remotely, the use of employee monitoring software on company-provided devices has become a common business practice. Remote work is not a standard practice. It is up to the organization to decide if it is best for them to keep their workers at home. Many companies have made the switch to working from home years ago. There are many benefits to having employees work remotely. Remote work could become the new norm, regardless of how the Coronavirus affects the global workforce. Remote work-from-home presents new challenges that are not present in the workplace. Telecommuting is attractive to employees because it allows them to have more flexibility, which allows them to maintain a better balance between work and life.
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    tirreno Reviews

    tirreno

    Tirreno Technologies Sàrl

    Free
    Open-source platform for prevent online fraud, account takeovers, abuse, and spam. Tirreno is a universal analytic tool for monitoring online platforms, web applications, SaaS, communities, mobile applications, intranets, and e-commerce websites.
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    BlackFog Reviews

    BlackFog

    BlackFog

    $19.95/year/user
    Protect your intellectual property, avoid ransomware and industrial espionage risks and stop malicious activity within your organization. To ensure compliance with data protection regulations worldwide, prevent cyberattacks on all endpoints. Monitor data exfiltration from any network and prevent data loss. BlackFog's data privacy technology on devices can prevent data loss and data breaches. Protect your network from unauthorised collection and transmission user data from all devices. We are the industry leader in ransomware prevention and data privacy. Our preventative approach is not limited to perimeter defense. It focuses on preventing data exfiltration from your devices. Our enterprise ransomware prevention software and data privacy software dramatically reduces the chance of data breaches and stops ransomware from disrupting organizations. In real-time, you can access detailed analytics and impact assessments.
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    Syteca Reviews
    Syteca is a full cycle insider risk management platform with capabilities in employee monitoring, privileged access management, subcontractor control, and compliance tasks. We help leading companies to protect their sensitive data from numerous industries like Financial, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Telecommunication and IT, Education, Government, etc. Over 2,500 organizations across the world rely on Syteca! Key solutions: - Privileged Access Management - User activity monitoring - Insider threat management - User and entity behavior analytics - Employee activity monitoring - Enhanced Auditing and Reporting
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    inDefend Reviews

    inDefend

    Data Resolve Technologies Private Limited

    InDefend allows you to monitor all employees of your organization, regardless of their size. Get industry compliance that suits your company's needs, and protect company data from being compromised. Employees can be managed more effectively with a shorter notice period and full transparency about their activities. You can create full-fidelity profiles for all employees and track their productivity, behavior and other digital assets. You need not worry about the productivity of remote workers, roaming workforce, or employees working remotely. Our unique data flow analysis allows you to manage access permissions for large groups of scattered employees. Keep track of the specific employee crimes that have caused damage to the company's reputation.
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    Moesif Reviews

    Moesif

    Moesif

    $85 per month
    You can use powerful API analytics to analyze user behavior and create great experiences. High-cardinality API logs make it easy to quickly debug issues. You can drill down by API parameters, customer attributes, body fields, and other variables. Deeply understand who uses your APIs, how they're used, and what payloads they send. Find the areas where customers are dropping off your funnel to optimize your product strategy. Automately email customers when they reach rate limits using deprecated APIs and more based upon behavior. Learn how developers use your APIs. Improve funnel metrics such as activation rate and time to first hello world (TTFHW) by measuring and improving them. Segment developers based on demographic information, marketing attribution SDK, and other factors to determine which metrics will best improve your north star metrics. Then, focus on the activities that are most important.
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    Moonsense Reviews
    Moonsense helps customers detect sophisticated fraud schemes. It does this by providing immediate access and granular data to enhance fraud detection without adding additional friction for the user. User behavior and network intelligence are required to reveal a user's unique digital language, similar to a fingerprint. In a world of frequent data breaches, the digital body language of the user is uniquely able to detect the most challenging fraud types without adding friction to the user. Identity theft is a common type of fraud. During the account creation process, there is a pattern of behavior that is expected. By analyzing digital body language of the user, you can flag any accounts that are not normal. Moonsense's mission is to level the playing fields in the fight against fraud online. One integration gives you access to both user behavior as well as user network intelligence.
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    Haystax Reviews

    Haystax

    Haystax Technology

    Our platform analyzes threats and prioritizes risks, allowing leaders and operators to take action when it is most important. Instead of mining a vast amount of data to generate threat intelligence, we first create a system that transforms human expertise into models capable of evaluating complex security problems. We can then automatically score high-priority threats and quickly deliver them to the right people by using analytics. To enable our users to manage critical assets and respond to incidents, we have built a tightly integrated ecosystem of web and mobile apps. Our Haystax Analytics Platform, which can be used on-premises or in the cloud, is a platform for early threat detection and situational awareness. It also allows information sharing. Continue reading to learn more.
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    Digital Resolve Reviews
    Online Security and Fraud Protection with Real-time Identity Intelligence and Authentication. Access Control. Online security from login to logout: Protect online accounts, information and transactions, as well as your online interactions. Digital Resolve is an affordable and simple-to-implement solution that effectively mitigates risk from the moment it is deployed. The platform was developed by a team that includes seasoned experts to provide a complete view of all transactions and interactions. This is unlike other solutions that only detect certain events. You can also maintain trust and confidence among your users by providing real-time protection from potential risks and offering real-time intervention options.
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Overview of User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) software is a type of security tool used to detect abnormal or suspicious user behavior, and potential incidents in an organization’s network environment. This software helps organizations identify potential anomalies or malicious activities by collecting data about the behavior of users, such as how they interact with the system or access certain resources. It does this by monitoring user activity over time, evaluating any changes in their behaviors, and then alerting organizations when something appears out of the ordinary. UEBA software can also be used to identify privileged user accounts that are potentially being misused, as well as provide visibility into who has access to sensitive data within the system.

UEBA software uses machine learning algorithms to recognize patterns in user activity that may indicate malicious intent. It compares current behavior against historical trends and applies risk scores to various activities so that it can detect anomalies quickly. Organizations often use UEBA algorithms in conjunction with other threat detection technology such as intrusion detection systems (IDS), endpoint protection platforms (EPP), or network security management tools (NSM). The combination of these technologies allows organizations to better monitor their networks for suspicious activity and quickly investigate any potential threats before they become major issues.

The main benefit of UEBA software is that it provides visibility into user activities within an organization's system at all times, regardless of what kind of device or application is being used; which is essential for organizations looking for early indications of a possible attack before it occurs. Additionally, UEBA solutions are typically more proactive than traditional security technologies since they can detect potential threats before they manifest using behavioral analysis instead of relying on signatures from known malware variants. This makes them especially useful for detecting advanced threats such as zero-day attacks or insiders trying to gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems.

Finally, UEBA software can also be used to detect insider threats by analyzing user activity patterns over time and flagging any behavior that appears out of the ordinary. By monitoring employee activities on a regular basis, organizations can identify potential areas of concern before they become bigger issues. This data can then be used to strengthen security policies and prevent future incidents from occurring.

Reasons To Use User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software

  1. Increased Visibility of User Activity: UEBA software is designed to monitor user activity and identify anomalies, which can provide an organization with more comprehensive visibility into user behavior. This helps organizations stay ahead of potential security threats by quickly identifying suspicious activities that could indicate a data breach or malicious attack.
  2. Early Detection of Malicious Behaviors: UEBA software can detect suspicious behaviors such as unusual access attempts, abnormal file downloads, and other potential signs of a malicious attack in real-time. This enables organizations to take immediate action when possible threats are detected, rather than reacting to the incident after it has already occurred.
  3. More Comprehensive User Profiling: By monitoring user activity over time, UEBA software can more accurately determine what constitutes 'normal' behavior for each user in order to quickly identify any outlying actions that may indicate a security threat. This allows organizations to identify threats earlier on while also reducing false positives from traditional security solutions.
  4. Improved Regulatory Compliance: Many regulatory frameworks require organizations to continuously monitor their systems for potential risks and incidents. This is where UEBA software comes in handy. With advanced analytics capabilities, UEBA solutions make it easier for administrators to detect and report suspicious activities while remaining compliant with various regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA.
  5. Automated Threat Response: UEBA software also includes automated response capabilities, allowing organizations to quickly respond to potential security threats without requiring manual intervention or additional resources. This helps ensure that any malicious actors are stopped in their tracks before they can do any real damage.

Why Is User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software Important?

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) software is increasingly becoming an important component of an organization's security stack. UEBA provides essential visibility into insider threats, malicious actors, and suspicious behaviors that are often the precursors to cyberattacks or data breaches. By leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics, UEBA solutions are able to detect potentially malicious behavior before it has a chance to do major damage.

Traditional next-generation antivirus systems rely on signature-based detection methods that can be easily evaded by hackers using obfuscation techniques. Modern threat actors make use of polymorphic malware and other tactics that traditional anti-virus solutions simply cannot detect in real time or adequately protect against. UEBA technologies, on the other hand, provide an additional layer of defense which helps secure organizations from the malicious actors who continuously evolve their attack techniques.

UEBA also allows administrators to have greater visibility over what is happening within their network environment. The system provides detailed insights into user activity so they can identify potentially unauthorized activities such as suspicious logins/logouts or unusual access attempts more quickly and take proactive measures such as disabling accounts or issuing warnings as needed. This can drastically reduce both the risk of data loss due to unauthorized access as well as the amount of time spent trying to identify potential breaches after they happen.

In addition, UEBA helps support compliance with industry regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA by providing visibility into user access logs and identifying potential violations in order for organizations to limit the scope of any possible fines should a breach occur. Finally, many modern UEBA solutions come with cloud capabilities which allow organizations to monitor user activity across multiple devices regardless of location—offering even greater protection for distributed networks than most traditional anti-virus tools alone can provide.

Overall, UEBA solutions are an increasingly important component in any organization’s security strategy, providing a crucial layer of defense against ever-evolving threats and helping to ensure compliance with industry regulations.

Features of User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software

  1. Anomaly Detection: UEBA software can detect anomalies or suspicious behavior that deviates from typical user activity. This helps organizations protect themselves against insider threats and malicious actors.
  2. Access Monitoring: UEBA software monitors user access to data, applications, and systems in order to detect any unauthorized access or changes made by users or external entities.
  3. Risk Profiling: UEBA software can create risk profiles for each entity interacting with the organization's network in order to identify known security risks such as weak passwords, unknown devices accessing the system, etc.
  4. Security Alerts & Notifications: Some UEBA solutions offer real-time alerts when suspicious activity is detected so that organizations can take appropriate measures quickly and efficiently.
  5. Automation & Orchestration: Automated processes enable organizations to respond faster to incidents by aggregating logs from disparate sources and generating a comprehensive report of the incident for further investigation without manual intervention.
  6. Contextual Analysis & Correlation: The context of an entity's activities across networks and applications is analyzed in order to gain insights into patterns of behavior which can be used for better decision making related to security activities within the organization’s network.
  7. Machine Learning: UEBA solutions can use machine learning models to identify complex behavioral patterns and continuously learn from data for better security analytics and threat detection.
  8. Data Visibility & Reporting: Organizations can gain greater visibility into their users' activities by using visualizations, dashboards, and reports generated by the UEBA solution. This helps them gain a better understanding of user behavior and make more informed decisions.

Who Can Benefit From User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software?

  • IT Security Professionals: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) software can be used by IT security professionals to detect malicious user behavior, identify insider threats, uncover data exfiltration attempts, and more.
  • Business Leaders: UEBA software can provide business leaders with an understanding of user activity within their organization. This helps them make strategic decisions about personnel and security policies.
  • Compliance Officers: UEBA software can help compliance officers ensure that organizational data access and usage meets all applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Risk Managers: Risk managers in enterprises can use UEBA to understand the risk associated with user behavior and alert them when there is malicious or suspicious activity.
  • Auditors: Auditors can use UEBA analytics to monitor employee activities for any anomalies that may indicate internal fraud or misuse of funds.
  • Data Analysis Professionals: Data analysis professionals are able to access real-time insights into how users interact with certain datasets, which allows them to better understand what type of data they need access to at any given time.
  • Forensic Investigators: Forensics investigators using UEBA software are able to quickly identify patterns in user activity that could indicate criminal or malicious activities within an enterprise network environment.

How Much Does User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software Cost?

The cost of user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) software depends on the specific features and capabilities of the particular product you choose. Generally speaking, UEBA solutions range from a few thousand dollars for basic versions up to several hundred thousand dollars for comprehensive systems that include advanced features such as machine learning.

The most basic packages will typically provide basic alerts and reporting services related to log-in activity or data access. These products are often priced according to the number of users monitored or information stored in the system, which can vary widely depending on your needs. Mid-range solutions can go deeper into security analytics by including functions such as identity governance and credential management. More advanced offerings may also include predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and other highly sophisticated analysis tools; which can be especially beneficial if your organization deals with large quantities of sensitive data.

It's important to evaluate precisely what you need before making a purchase decision; many organizations find that inexpensive options do not meet their requirements while more expensive options require unnecessary overhead costs. The best approach is usually to consult with an experienced security provider who is familiar with the various UEBA software choices available today. They should be able to help guide you towards a solution that meets both your budget and security needs.

Risks To Consider With User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software

  • Data Security: UEBA software processes large amounts of data from multiple sources, which could lead to a breach in security if it isn’t adequately protected. Proper measures must be taken to ensure that the collected information is secure and can’t be accessed by unauthorized personnel.
  • False Positives: The algorithms used in UEBA software can generate false positives due to incorrect or incomplete data sets or errors in the machine learning engine itself. These false positives can lead to wrongfully flagging an entity as malicious and cause organizations to take unnecessary action that could have unintended consequences.
  • Biased Outcomes: If given inaccurate or biased training data, UEBA systems can produce skewed results based on their internal logic. This could have serious implications for organizations if they’re relying on outcomes generated by the system without understanding where those conclusions are coming from.
  • Privacy Issues: As UEBA software collects and analyzes user behavior at scale, there are concerns around privacy violations relating to how the data is handled and who has access to it. Organizations must ensure that they have appropriate policies in place regarding the collection and storage of this sensitive personal information.
  • High Maintenance Costs: Developing a UEBA solution requires significant upfront costs such as hardware investments and engineering overhead, as well as ongoing maintenance costs associated with keeping up with new threats, updates, and changes in technology infrastructure over time. Without proper budgeting for these expenses, organizations may struggle with maintaining their system long-term.

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software Integrations

User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) software can integrate with a variety of different types of software in order to gain a more holistic understanding of user activity. This often includes security-related software such as firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, malware scanners, and vulnerability assessment tools, which provide data that can be used to detect malicious behavior on the network. Additionally, UEBA solutions can integrate with directory services such as Active Directory and Identity Management providers, to collect identity and access management data in order to identify privileged users or accounts being misused. Other common integration points include applications like email servers and cloud collaboration platforms that are used for communication between users.

Finally, UEBA software often integrates with machine learning models that allow it to analyze large amounts of disparate data sets in order to detect anomalies and other suspicious activities. By leveraging all these different sources of data together, UEBA solutions are able to give organizations a comprehensive view into their user activity so they can better defend against potential threats.

Questions To Ask When Considering User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Software

  1. What types of user and entity behavior can the UEBA software track?
  2. Does the software integrate with existing systems and databases, including Active Directory, to provide a more comprehensive view of network activities?
  3. Is there an option for customization to meet the specific demands of our company’s cybersecurity strategy?
  4. Does it have robust anomaly detection capabilities that are capable of recognizing suspicious user activity based on historical data?
  5. Can it detect threats in real time and alert security teams immediately as soon as something looks suspicious?
  6. Can we customize rules-based alerts so that only certain anomalies trigger notifications from the system?
  7. How easy is it to set up new rules and adjust existing ones within the platform when needed?
  8. Is there a way to automatically collect information from users, such as devices used or locations accessed, so that this data can be analyzed for any kind of unauthorized access or suspicious activity?
  9. Does the system offer features such as identity governance and access control management (GACM) capabilities which help manage user access privileges securely?
  10. What safety protocols are in place to protect stored customer data against potential hacks or other forms of cyber attack?