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Turn on the risk scoring engine

Start generating host and user risk scores.

Requirements

To use entity risk scoring, you must have the appropriate user role. For more information, refer to Entity risk scoring prerequisites.

Preview risky entities

You can preview risky entities before installing the risk engine. The preview shows the riskiest hosts and users found in the 1000 sampled entities during the time frame selected in the date picker.

Note

The preview is limited to two risk scores per serverless Security project.

To preview risky entities, go to Project settings → Management → Entity Risk Score:

Turn on the risk engine

Note

To view risk score data, you must have alerts generated in your environment.

If you're installing the risk scoring engine for the first time:

  1. Go to Project settings → Management → Entity Risk Score.
  2. Turn the Entity risk score toggle on.

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