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Cloud-delivered Advanced AnalyticsExabeam Advanced Analytics Administration Guide

Set Up Context Management

Logs tell Exabeam what the users and entities are doing while context tells us who the users and entities are. These are data sources that typically come from identity services such as Active Directory. They enrich the logs to help with the anomaly detection process or are used directly by the risk engine layer for fact-based rules. Regardless of where these external feeds are used, they all go through the anomaly detection layer as part of an event. Examples of context information potentially used by the anomaly detection layer are the location for a given IP address, ISP name for an IP address, and department for a user.

Administrators are able to view and edit Exabeam's out-of-the-box context tables as well as create their own custom tables. They can select a specific table, such as Executive Users, Service Accounts, etc. and see the details of the table and all of the objects within the table. Edits can be performed on objects individually or through CSV uploads.