# Endpoint Security and Behavior Analysis

* Biggest security risk? The users and their devices
* Behavior Analysis Solutions
  * HIDS, HIPS (Host based intrusion detection/prevention)
  * File Integrity Monitoring
    * Tripwire
  * EPP (Endpoint Protection Platforms)
    * Signature based
  * EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response)
    * Machine learning
  * UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analysis)
    * What do users do, when, why, and how?
    * Splunk UEBA
    * Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics
* Low on budget? Here’s some things to look for:
  * Single idle and system PIDs
  * One wininit.exe
  * One services.exe others should be children of services.exe or svchost.exe (just a wrapper)
  * System services should be digitally signed
  * Services should be launched by either the SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, or NETWORK SERVICE accounts
  * One lsass.exe
  * One winlogon.exe
  * Userinit.exe should not persist
  * Explorer.exe file manager and parent process
  * Sysinternals procmon
* Found a suspicious process? Check the following:
  * Read/write file access
  * Launch location
  * Obfuscated/compressed
  * Parent process
  * Try killing it
  * Network traffic
  * Sysinternal Process Explorer
  * Tasklist command
  * Sysinternals Autoruns


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