Law enforcement has long used investigative profiling techniques to catch criminals. By using the evidence they have about crimes, they can try to predict the characteristics of the perpetrator in order to narrow down the potential list of suspects.

Companies looking to defend against cybercrime have picked up on similar tactics. The growing use of user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) gives a network’s protectors the capability to spot those who are likely to commit a data breach or are simply too lax in their security habits. The hope is this will help stop cybercrime before the bad guys get the data they want.

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