User behavior profile in a blockchain

• US 10,542,013 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2018
• Issued: 01/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
• Original Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
• Inventors: Ford, Richard Anthony, Swafford, Brandon L., Shirey, Christopher Brian, Moynahan, Matthew P., Thompson, Richard Heath
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwartz, Darren B
• Application Number:
  US16/102,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20190007424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/14 for detecting or protecting against malicious traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3236 using cryptographic hash functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees

Abstract

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for generating a cyber behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions and the information about the user into electronic information representing the user interactions; generating a unique cyber behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; and, storing information relating to the unique cyber behavior profile in a behavior blockchain.

Claims

1. A computer-implementable method for generating a cyber behavior profile, comprising:

monitoring electronically-observable user behavior;

converting the electronically-observable user behavior into electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior, the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior comprising respective user behavior elements;

generating a user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior;

storing information relating to the user behavior profile in a behavior blockchain;

determining whether a user behavior is suspect;

generating a user behavior block representing the suspect user behavior; and

,

appending the user behavior block to the behavior blockchain, the user behavior block comprising a known good user behavior representation when the user behavior is not suspect and a suspect user behavior representation when the user behavior is suspect.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic information representing the user interactions comprise a user behavior element; and

further comprising

storing information relating to the user behavior element in a user behavior block of the behavior blockchain.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the user behavior block comprises a transaction payload; and

,

the transaction payload includes a representation of the user behavior profile.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises executable code, the executable code being used by a user behavior monitoring system to detect at least one of acceptable behavior, anomalous behavior, malicious behavior and unknown behavior being enacted by a user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises a user behavior score, the user behavior score being used by a user behavior monitoring system to assess a particular user while enacting a given user behavior.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user behavior profile is based upon at least one of an identification factor and a user behavior factor.

7. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor; and

a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for;

monitoring electronically-observable user behavior;

converting the electronically-observable user behavior into electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior, the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior comprising respective user behavior elements;

generating a user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior;

storing information relating to the user behavior profile in a behavior blockchain;

determining whether a user behavior is suspect;

generating a user behavior block representing the suspect user behavior; and

,

appending the user behavior block to the behavior blockchain, the user behavior block comprising a known good user behavior representation when the user behavior is not suspect and a suspect user behavior representation when the user behavior is suspect.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the electronic information representing the user interactions comprise a user behavior element; and

the instructions are further configured for;

storing information relating to the user behavior element in a user behavior block of the behavior blockchain.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the user behavior profile is based upon at least one of an identification factor and a user behavior factor.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the user behavior block comprises a transaction payload; and

,

the transaction payload includes a representation of the unique cyber behavior profile.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises executable code, the executable code being used by a user behavior monitoring system to detect at least one of acceptable behavior, anomalous behavior, malicious behavior and unknown behavior being enacted by a user.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises a user behavior score, the user behavior score being used by a user behavior monitoring system to assess a particular user while enacting a given user behavior.

13. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

monitoring electronically-observable user behavior;

converting the electronically-observable user behavior into electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior, the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior comprising respective user behavior elements;

generating a user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior;

storing information relating to the user behavior profile in a behavior blockchain;

determining whether a user behavior is suspect;

generating a user behavior block representing the suspect user behavior; and

,

appending the user behavior block to the behavior blockchain, the user behavior block comprising a known good user behavior representation when the user behavior is not suspect and a suspect user behavior representation when the user behavior is suspect.

14. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein:

the electronic information representing the user interactions comprise a user behavior element; and

the instructions are further configured for;

storing information relating to the user behavior element in a user behavior block of the behavior blockchain.

15. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein:

the user behavior profile is based upon at least one of an identification factor and a user behavior factor.

16. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein:

the user behavior block comprises a transaction payload; and

,

the transaction payload includes a representation of the unique cyber behavior profile.

17. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises executable code, the executable code being used by a user behavior monitoring system to detect at least one of acceptable behavior, anomalous behavior, malicious behavior and unknown behavior being enacted by a user.

18. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein:

the transaction payload comprises a user behavior score, the user behavior score being used by a user behavior monitoring system to assess a particular user while enacting a given user behavior.

19. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are deployable to a client system from a server system at a remote location.

20. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a user on an on-demand basis.