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Monitor Entities of Interest in Threat Center

Track and understand entities of interest at a glance with watchlists.

A watchlist is a list of entities of interest sorted from highest to lowest risk score. You use watchlists to carefully observe and stay informed about entities in your environment and as a starting point to investigate noteworthy entities. Watchlists are available only with a New-Scale Security Operations portfolio license.

View all watchlists in the Threat Center Overview tab:

The Threat Center Overview tab.

Each watchlist displays up to 50 entities. Entities with the same risk score are sorted by highest to lowest number of associated alerts.

For an entity in a watchlist, you can view:

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1 The highest case or alert risk score associated with the entity

2 The highest case or alert priority associated with the entity

3 The entity name

4 The number of cases associated with the entity

There are five pre-built watchlists. You can also create your own watchlist based on tags applied to entities in Attack Surface Insights. After you create a watchlist, you can also edit and delete it.

To further investigate entities of interest, you can:

Adjust Watchlist Time Frame

Watchlists dynamically ranks entities from highest to lowest risk score over a time frame you specify. The default is seven days. To view how a watchlist changes over time, you can adjust the time frame applied to a watchlist.

To specify a time frame, click the current applied time frame, then select a time frame: Last day, Last 2 days, Last 7 days, Last 14 days, Last 30 days, or Last 60 days.

Notable Users watchlist with open time frame menu.

View Entity Details

To learn more about an entity in a watchlist, view entity attributes directly from the watchlist.

For an entity in the watchlist, click the More menu Three blue vertical dots, then select Details.

View Event Timeline

To understand all activity in which the entity was involved, navigate to a timeline of all events associated with the entity.

For an entity in the watchlist, click the More menu Three blue vertical dots, then select Timeline. You're directed to the Search timeline view with a query entered for events with a risk score associated with the entity and created in the past 24 hours.

View Associated Cases

If an entity is associated with a high number of cases, it may indicate you should further investigate the entity.

To view cases associated with an entity in the watchlist, you can either:

  • Click A blue outline of a file with a blue C in the center. <#> for the entity.

    Notable User watchlist with cases associated with user entity highlighted in a red rectangle.
  • For an entity, click the More menu Three blue vertical dots, then select <#> Associated cases.

You're directed to a list of cases created in the same time frame applied to the watchlist whose detections are grouped by the entity.

View Associated Alerts

If an entity is associated with a high number of alerts, it may indicate you should further investigate the entity.

To view alerts associated with an entity in the watchlist, click the More menu Three blue vertical dots for the entity, then select <#> Associated alerts. You're directed to a list of alerts without an associated case, created in the same time frame applied to the watchlist, and whose detections are grouped by the entity.