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Systems and methods for managing access

  • US 9,754,109 B1
  • Filed: 02/05/2015
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for managing access, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • identifying an attempt by a user, from a set of users, to access a file within a computing environment;

    determining that the attempt to access the file is anomalous for the user according to a statistical analysis;

    identifying a quota of allowed anomalous file accesses for the user that defines a number of times the user is allowed to access files despite the access of the files being anomalous according to the statistical analysis, where the quota is assigned to the user based on a level of trust for the user and the level of trust for the user is based on at least one of;

    previous behavior of the user;

    a tenure of the user;

    a rank of the user within an organization; and

    a level of privilege previously assigned to the user within a security system;

    determining that the attempt to access the file causes a count of anomalous file accesses to exceed the quota of allowed anomalous file accesses; and

    after determining that the attempt to access the file causes the count of anomalous file accesses to exceed the quota of allowed anomalous file accesses;

    blocking the attempt to access the file; and

    permitting another action that is non-anomalous according to the statistical analysis.

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