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Cloud-delivered Advanced AnalyticsExabeam Advanced Analytics Administration Guide

What Are Accounts & Groups?

Peer Groups

Peer groups can be a team, department, division, geographic location, etc. and are defined by the organization. Exabeam uses this information to compare a user's behavior to that of their peers. For example, when a user logs into an application for the first time Exabeam can evaluate if it is normal for a member of their peer group to access that application. When Dynamic Peer Grouping is enabled, Exabeam will use machine learning to choose the best possible peer groups for a user for different activities based on the behaviors they exhibit.

Executives

Exabeam watches executive movements very closely because they are privileged and have access to sensitive and confidential information, making their credentials highly desirable for account takeover. Identifying executives allows the system to model executive assets, thereby prioritizing anomalous behaviors associated with them. For example, we will place a higher score for an anomaly triggered by a non-executive user accessing an executive workstation.

Service Accounts

A service account is a user account that belongs to an application rather than an end user and runs a particular piece of software. During the setup process, we work with an organization to identify patterns in service account labels and uses this information to classify accounts as service accounts based on their behavior. Exabeam also adds or removes points from sessions based on service account activity. For example, if a service account logs into an application interactively, we will add points to the session because service accounts should not typically log in to applications.