Patent Publication Number: US-11392689-B2

Title: Computer-security violation detection using coordinate vectors

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
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     BACKGROUND 
     With computer and Internet use forming an ever greater part of day to day life, security exploits and cyber attacks directed to stealing and destroying computer resources, data, and private information are becoming an increasing problem. For example, “malware”, or malicious software, is a general term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive computer programs. Malware is, for example, used by cyber attackers to disrupt computer operations, to access and to steal sensitive information stored on the computer or provided to the computer by a user, or to perform other actions that are harmful to the computer or to the user of the computer. Malware may include computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, rootkits, keyloggers, spyware, adware, rogue security software, potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), and other malicious programs. Malware may be formatted as executable files (e.g., COM or EXE files), dynamic link libraries (DLLs), scripts, macros or scripts embedded in document files, steganographic encodings within media files such as images, or other types of computer programs, or combinations thereof. 
     Another type of cyber attack is a “targeted” attack, e.g., by an adversary operating as an advanced persistent threat (APT). Targeted attacks often attempt to gain command-line access to target systems. Targeted attacks may use malware, or may use other techniques that do not require running malware on target systems. Examples include phishing and exploits that compromise benign software. For example, a benign program with administrative privileges may be compromised using a remote zero-day attack to provide an adversary with unauthorized administrative access to a system, even without the use of malware. Additionally or alternatively, an adversary may steal the credentials of a legitimate user, access the system as that user, and then elevate privilege level (e.g., using those credentials, or by exploiting a vulnerability). This may permit the adversary to use normal administrative tools, but without authorization. Given the wide variety of attack types, it is challenging to determine if activity taking place on a computer is malicious. 
     As used herein, the terms “adversary” or “adversaries” include not only malware developers but also exploit developers, builders and operators of an attack infrastructure, those conducting target reconnaissance, those executing targeted operations, those performing data exfiltration, those maintaining persistence in the network, etc. Thus the “adversaries” can include numerous people or other entities that are all part of an “adversary” group. 
     To counter these threats, governments, enterprises, and individuals use a range of security applications and services. Typically, these applications and services scan a device for a signature of a security exploit such as a piece of malware. Responsive to finding the signature, the applications and services quarantine or delete the exploit. The applications and services often miss more sophisticated security violations, however, such as non-malware malicious activity (e.g., an adversary&#39;s login session). 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The detailed description is described with reference to the accompanying figures. In the figures, the left-most digit(s) of a reference number identifies the figure in which the reference number first appears. The use of the same reference numbers in different figures indicates similar or identical items or features. For brevity of illustration, in the diagrams herein, an arrow beginning with a diamond connects a first component or operation (at the diamond end) to at least one second component or operation that is or can be included in the first component or operation. 
         FIG. 1  is a block diagram depicting example scenarios for performing security analysis of events as described herein. 
         FIG. 2  is a block diagram depicting an example computing device configured to participate in performing security analysis of events according to various examples described herein. 
         FIG. 3  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events, e.g., to determine whether an event is associated with a security violation. 
         FIG. 4  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and interfacing between, e.g., a monitored computing device associated with the events and a security service. 
         FIG. 5  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and detecting heterogeneous clusters of events. 
         FIG. 6  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and interfacing between, e.g., a monitored computing device associated with the events and a security service. 
         FIG. 7  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and session(s) at a monitored computing device associated with the events. 
         FIG. 8  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and interfacing between, e.g., a monitored computing device associated with the events and a security service. 
         FIG. 9  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and providing access via a user interface to tags on those events. 
         FIG. 10  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events, presenting representations of events via a user interface, and interfacing between, e.g., a monitored computing device associated with the events and a security service. 
         FIG. 11  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and determining user-interface data associated with the events. 
         FIG. 12  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events and presenting representations of the events. 
         FIG. 13  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for presenting representations of events via a user interface and processing security commands. 
         FIG. 14  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques for performing security analysis of events. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Overview 
     Some examples herein relate to classification of events occurring at a monitored computing device to determine whether those events are associated with a security violation, e.g., malicious. Some examples permit correlating data from multiple events to locate events that are likely to be associated with a security violation, or to locate events that have been mis-classified. Some examples permit determining whether a session (e.g., a login session) is associated with a security violation (e.g., under control of an adversary) based on data from multiple events in that session and in other sessions. 
     Some examples herein relate to analysis of events occurring at a monitored computing device to determine coordinate vectors associated with those events. The coordinate vectors can then be presented or otherwise used in determining whether those events are associated with a security violation, e.g., malicious. Some examples include presenting representations of the events with respect to their coordinate vectors via a user interface to permit more effectively distinguishing groups of related events. 
     For brevity, events or other security-relevant data are described herein as “associated with a security violation” (or “computer-security violation”) if those events or other data are at least one of: associated with malware; associated with or performed by an APT adversary; performed or generated while conducting, preparing to conduct, or attempting to conduct malicious activities; or otherwise performed or generated while attempting to gain or use, or gaining or using, unauthorized access to a computing system or network. Paras. [0050]-[0054] give various examples of events associated with security violations. 
     Throughout this document, “dirty” is used for brevity to refer to events associated with security violations, such as malware or other malicious components or behavior (e.g., any of the examples listed in the Background); feature vectors representing such events; or other values associated with, produced by, or indicative of malware, malicious behavior, or other security violations (e.g., activity by an APT adversary). “Clean” is used to refer to events or values that are not dirty. A “false detection” or “false positive” is a determination that an event is associated with a security violation when, in fact, that event is not associated with a security violation, or the event that is the subject of such a determination. A “false miss” or “false negative” is a determination that an event is not associated with a security violation when, in fact, that event is indeed associated with a security violation, or the event that is the subject of such a determination. Throughout this document, unless otherwise specified, references to an event can refer to a sequence of events that are represented by a single higher-level event. That is, an event can represent any number or arrangement of subsidiary events. In some examples, an event is an example of the Component in the Composite design pattern. 
     Throughout this document, a “data stream” can include data stored in, e.g., a file, a disk boot sector or partition root sector, or a block of memory, or a portion thereof. For brevity, the term “sample” herein refers to a data stream, or a portion of a data stream, being analyzed separately from at least one other portion of the data stream. A sample can include, e.g., an individual malware file, a user file such as a document, a benign executable, or a malware-infected user file. In some examples of a data stream representing a multi-file archive (e.g., ZIP or TGZ), an individual file within the multi-file archive can be a sample, or the archive as a whole can be a sample. Some examples determine or use a classification indicating, e.g., characteristics of a sample (e.g., a data stream) or an event related thereto. 
     In some examples, each of one or more monitored computing devices is equipped with a security agent (e.g., a service or daemon process) to monitor events on that device. Those monitored computing devices may be in communication with devices of a security service system, e.g., implemented using cloud technology. The security service system can filter and analyze events, and present to security analysts only events associated with security violations. This can, e.g., reduce the volume of events from thousands per second to a few per minute, permitting analysts to triage and research the suspicious events. Some examples perform this filtering based on behavior, permitting the detection of previously-unknown threats. 
     While example techniques described herein may refer to analyzing events that may potentially be malicious, it is understood that the techniques may also apply to other types of events, e.g., produced by non-malicious software, processes, or other system components. For example, techniques described herein can be used in determining which processes are accessing particular files or other system resources, or in analyzing causes of excess resource usage by processes. Accordingly, analysis of events as discussed herein may be used by, for example, anti-malware security researchers, white-hat vulnerability researchers, interoperability developers, anti-piracy testers, or other analysts of data streams. In some examples, the described techniques are used to detect, and prevent execution of, malicious actions at a computer. In some examples, techniques described herein can be used to detect malicious activity without requiring detection of a specific software package or version. This can provide increased robustness against polymorphic malware and against zero-day exploits used by APT adversaries. Some examples are described with reference to malware, but techniques described herein are not limited to files or events associated with malware. 
     Various entities, configurations of electronic devices, and techniques for performing security analyses, e.g., for stream-analysis or malware-detection applications, are described herein. While many examples described herein relate to servers and other non-consumer electronic devices, other types of electronic devices can be used, e.g., as discussed with reference to  FIG. 1 . References throughout this document to “users” can refer to human users or to other entities interacting with a computing system. 
     As used herein, the term “unique identifier” and similar terms encompass both truly unique identifiers (e.g., Ethernet MAC addresses that are unique by construction, or Version 1 UUIDs) and identifiers with a negligible probability of collision (non-uniqueness) (e.g., SHA256 hashes of data uniquely identifying an object, or Version 4 UUIDs). As used herein, a “random” value can be a truly random value, e.g., measured from physical phenomena, or a pseudorandom value. Examples of random values include cryptographically-strong random numbers. 
     In some examples, the techniques discussed herein can be implemented on or for a monitored computing device and can include detecting an event, e.g., an action of interest (AoI), committed or triggered by an object (i.e., a function, module, process, or thread) executed by the monitored computing device. Some techniques discussed herein can detect that an event is related to a security violation based at least in part on analyzing command lines associated with that event. In some examples, the techniques can take preventative action (e.g., blocking an object associated with the event) without input from a user. This can greatly increase the ease of implementing security for a computing device and may prevent greater damage from occurring due to a violation by stopping the violation before it has progressed beyond preliminary actions or events. 
     For brevity and clarity herein, several Perl notations are used. “$name= . . . ” defines an entity called “name” with the value “ . . . ”. “qr{ . . . }” represents the Perl (or Perl-compatible, PCRE) regular expression “ . . . ”. “q{ . . . }” represents the literal text “ . . . ”, except that “\{” is replaced with “{” in “ . . . ”, and likewise “\}” with “}” and “\\” with “\”. “qw{ . . . }” represents the list of whitespace-delimited items in the string “ . . . ”. For example, qw{‘hello 42’ 1337} is the list with the three items “‘hello”, “42’”, and “1337”. 
     This “Overview” section is intended only to provide a brief overview of subject matter disclosed herein according to one or more illustrative embodiments, and does not serve as a guide to interpreting the claims or to define or limit scope. This section is provided to introduce illustrative features in a simplified form; these features are further described below. This section is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter. The claimed subject matter is not limited to implementations that solve any or all disadvantages noted above. The claimed subject matter is not limited to implementations that provide at least one of the results listed herein. Section headers in this Detailed Description are solely for convenience in reading. Some examples include features from only one section. Some examples include features from more than one section. Use of the terms “first,” “second,” and similar in the Detailed Description does not imply or require chronological order unless expressly stated. 
     Illustrative Environment 
       FIG. 1  shows an example scenario  100  in which examples of security-analysis or security user-interface systems can operate or in which security analysis or user-interface techniques such as those described herein can be performed. Illustrated devices or components of scenario  100  include computing device(s)  102 ( 1 )- 102 (N) (individually or collectively referred to herein with reference  102 ), for integer N≥1, and computing devices  104 ( 1 )- 104 (K) (individually or collectively referred to herein with reference  104 ), for integer K≥1. In some examples, N=K; in other examples, N&lt;K or N&gt;K. Although illustrated as, e.g., desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, or cellular phones, computing device(s)  102  or  104  can include a diverse variety of device categories, classes, or types and are not limited to a particular type of device. 
     In the illustrated example, computing device(s)  102 ( 1 )- 102 (N) can be computing nodes in a cluster computing system  106 , e.g., a cloud service such as GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM or another cluster computing system (“computing cluster” or “cluster”) having several discrete computing nodes (e.g., computing device(s)  102 ) that work together to accomplish a computing task assigned to the cluster as a whole. In some examples, computing device(s)  104  can be clients of cluster  106  and can submit jobs to cluster  106  or receive job results from cluster  106 . 
     In some examples, computing devices  102  or  104  can intercommunicate or communicate with external device(s), e.g., via one or more network(s)  108 , to participate in or carry out computational-model determination or operation as described herein. For example, computing device  104 ( 1 ) can be or include a monitored computing device or other data source owned or operated by or on behalf of a user, and computing device  102 ( 1 ) can be a computational-model determination and operation system, as described herein. Network(s)  108  can include public networks such as the Internet, private networks such as an institutional or personal intranet, or combination(s) of private and public networks. Communications between computing devices  102  or  104  via network(s)  108  can be structured, e.g., according to defined application programming interfaces (APIs). For example, data can be retrieved via network(s)  108 , e.g., using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request such as a GET to a Web Services or Representational State Transfer (REST) API endpoint. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) APIs or other types of APIs can additionally or alternatively be used for network communications. 
     In some examples, computing devices  102  or  104  interact with or are operated by an entity  110  (shown in phantom). The entity  110  can include systems, devices, parties such as users, or other features with which computing devices  102  or  104  can interact. For brevity, examples of entity  110  are discussed herein with reference to users of a computing device  104 ; however, these examples are not limiting. 
     In the illustrated example, computing devices  104  transmit event records  112  to computing devices  102 . Computing devices  102  filter and otherwise handle the event records  112  to determine whether events associated with the event records  112  are associated with security violations or are otherwise suspicious. For example, computing devices  102  can determine or operate computational model(s) (CM(s))  114 , or other algorithms such as clustering or dimensionality-reduction algorithms, to determine an output corresponding to event(s) on a user&#39;s computing device  104 . For example, the output can include a classification  116  indicating whether or not the event(s) are associated with a security violation. In response to an output indicating a security violation, computing devices  102  can apply a “tag” to each event record  112  associated with the security violation, e.g., by storing data of the classification  116  or other tag in the event record  112 . Tags can be represented as, e.g., strings (e.g., “dirty.malware”), enumerated values (e.g., 1 for malware, 2 for targeted activity, 3 for other dirty, or 4 for clean), or XML tags or other structured text. The computing device(s)  102  can provide to computing device(s)  104  the classification  116  or other outputs of processing using computational models described herein. 
     Computing device(s)  102  can store one or more CM(s)  114 , individually or collectively referred to herein with reference  114 . In some examples, algorithms for determining CM(s)  114  as described herein can be performed on computing device(s)  102 . 
     In some examples, classification  116  is provided to computing device(s)  104 . This can permit computing device(s)  104  to, e.g., take mitigation actions or advise entit(ies)  110  of an event associated with a security violation. Additionally or alternatively, classification  116  can be provided to computing device(s)  118  (for brevity, only one is shown), e.g., operated by entity  120  (shown in phantom). Entity  120  can be a security analyst working for a security service, in some examples. Additionally or alternatively, entity  120  can include systems, devices, parties such as users, or other features with which computing devices  118  can interact. For brevity, examples of entity  120  are discussed herein with reference to security analysts using a computing system; however, these examples are not limiting. 
     In some examples, computing device  118  (e.g., operated by an entity  120  such as a security analyst) can transmit a query  122  (e.g., a search query) to cluster  106 . Cluster  106  can respond to computing device  118  with result record(s)  124  corresponding to event record(s)  112  satisfying the query  122 . For example, query  122  can include at least one tag criterion, and result record(s)  124  can include event record(s)  112  that have been tagged (e.g., operations  940 ,  1330 ) with tag(s) matching the at least one tag criterion. Computing device  118  can then present at least some of the result record(s)  124  to entity  120  via a user interface. In some examples, a query  122  includes a selection  928  ( FIG. 9 ), and a result record  124  includes a highlight of a representation (operation  1310 ). 
     Throughout this document, any determination that a particular data item “satisfies” a query or criterion is equivalent to a determination that that data item fails to satisfy an inverse query or criterion. For example, in a system in which each record is tagged with exactly one of the three tags “Dirty,” “Clean,” and “Unknown,” a query  122  for all records tagged “Dirty” is equivalent to a query  122  for all records that are not tagged “Clean” and that are also not tagged “Unknown.” Accordingly, discussion of queries and criteria throughout specifically contemplates the use of inverted queries or criteria with inverted senses of what satisfies a query or criterion. 
     As noted above, an event can represent a single occurrence at a monitored computing device  104 , or can represent one or more (e.g., multiple) other events or sub-events. In some examples, a classification  116  or result record  124  can be associated with a specific event record  112 , or with a composite event or other event not directly represented by a specific event record  112  from a monitored computing device  104 . Any of these types of events are referred to herein individually or collectively with reference  126 , and are graphically depicted as stars. In the illustrated example, an event  126 ( 1 ) occurs at monitored computing device  104 ( 1 ), and is represented by an event record  112 . Event  126 ( 2 ) is a composite event detected by computing device  102 (N). 
     Different devices or types of computing devices  104 ,  118  can have different needs or ways of interacting with cluster  106 . For example, cluster  106  can interact with discrete request/response communications to computing devices  104  to determine additional data. Additionally or alternatively, computing devices  104  can be data sources (e.g., running security agents) and can interact with cluster  106  with discrete or ongoing transmissions of event records to be handled. For example, a data source in a personal computing device  104 ( 1 ) can provide to cluster  106  data of events such as file installations, process launches, or writes to system files. Additionally or alternatively, computing devices  104  can be data sinks and can interact with cluster  106  with discrete or ongoing requests for data output from CMs  114 , e.g., updates to blacklists or other security-relevant information. 
     In various examples, e.g., of CM(s)  114  for classifying events or other use cases noted herein, the CM(s)  114  may include, but are not limited to, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), neural networks (NNs), gradient-boosted NNs, convolutional NNs (CNNs), deep neural networks (DNNs) (i.e., neural networks having at least one hidden layer between an input layer and an output layer), autoencoders (e.g., DNNs in which the dimensionality of the hidden-layer outputs is smaller than that of the input layer or the output layer), recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as long short-term memory (LSTM) networks or Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks, transformer neural networks (arXiv:1706.03762 [cs.CL]), decision trees such as Classification and Regression Trees (CART), boosted trees or tree ensembles such as those used by the “xgboost” library, decision forests, autoencoders (e.g., denoising autoencoders such as stacked denoising autoencoders), Bayesian networks, support vector machines (SVMs), or hidden Markov models (HMMs). In some examples of DNNs, the hidden layer has fewer neurons than the input layer does, and the hidden layer has fewer neurons than the output layer does. In these examples, the hidden layer is an example of a chokepoint layer. In some examples, the DNN includes more than one hidden layer. The CMs  114  can additionally or alternatively include regression models, e.g., linear or nonlinear regression using mean squared deviation (MSD) or median absolute deviation (MAD) to determine fitting error during the regression; linear least squares or ordinary least squares (OLS); fitting using generalized linear models (GLM); hierarchical regression; Bayesian regression; or nonparametric regression. 
     The CMs  114  can include parameters governing or affecting the output of the CM  114  for a particular input. Parameters can include, but are not limited to, e.g., per-neuron, per-input weight or bias values, activation-function selections, neuron weights, edge weights, tree-node weights, or other data values. A training module  226 ,  FIG. 2 , can be configured to determine CMs  114 , e.g., to determine values of parameters in CMs  114 . For example, CMs  114  can be determined using an iterative update rule such as gradient descent (e.g., stochastic gradient descent or AdaGrad) with backpropagation. 
     In some examples, the training module  226  can determine the CMs  114  based at least in part on “hyperparameters,” values governing the training. Example hyperparameters can include learning rate(s), momentum factor(s), minibatch size, maximum tree depth, maximum number of trees, regularization parameters, dropout, class weighting, or convergence criteria. In some examples, the training module  226  can determine the CMs  114  in an iterative technique or routine involving updating and validation. The training data set can be used to update the CMs  114 , and the validation data set can be used in determining (1) whether the updated CMs  114  meet training criteria or (2) how the next update to the CMs  114  should be performed. 
     The computing device(s)  102  can be configured to use the determined parameter values of trained CM(s)  114  to, e.g., categorize or classify an event or event sequence with respect to association with malware or with a targeted attack, or to perform other data analysis or processing. In some examples, the computing device  104  can be configured to communicate with computing device(s)  102  to operate a CM  114 . For example, the computing device  104  can transmit a request to computing device(s)  102  for an output of the CM(s)  114 , receive a response (e.g., a classification  116 ), and take action based on that response. For example, the computing device  104  can provide to entity  110  information included in the response, or can quarantine or delete file(s) indicated in the response as being associated with a security violation. In some examples, computing device  104  can transmit event record(s)  112  to cluster  106 , and cluster  106  can push notifications of classification(s)  116  to computing device  104  in response to a determination that an event is associated with a security violation. 
     Throughout this document, a “feature vector” is a collection of values associated with respective axes in a feature space. Accordingly, a feature vector defines a point in feature space when the tail of the feature vector is placed at the origin of the M-dimensional feature space. Feature vectors can often be represented as mathematical vectors of, e.g., scalar or vector values, but this is not required. The feature space can have any number M of dimensions, M≥1. In some examples, features can be determined by a feature extractor, such as a previously-trained CM or a hand-coded feature extractor. The term “feature vector” permits any particular element of a feature vector to be the output of a computation determined through feature engineering, but does not require that. For example, features can be hidden-neuron outputs of a word-proximity model such as a word2vec or doc2vec (individually or collectively, “x2vec”) model, e.g., as discussed below with reference to  FIG. 3-5, 7, 9 , or  11 . 
     In some examples example, the classification  116  includes a rational or real number (e.g., in floating- or fixed-point representation), a bitmask, an attribute list, a softmax output, or another representation of categories to which the event represented by or associated with an event record  112  belongs, as determined by CM(s)  114 . For example, classification(s)  116  or result record(s)  124  can include Boolean value(s) indicating whether or not corresponding event(s) are associated with security violation(s). Additionally or alternatively, classification(s)  116  or result record(s)  124  can include enumerated value(s) indicating with which (if any) of several categories the analyzed event(s) are associated (e.g., “benign,” “virus,” or “spyware”). In some examples, a benign event is indicated by a classification  116  that does not indicate that the event is associated with a category indicative of a security violation (e.g., “benign” is the absence of another category, rather than the presence of a “benign” category). Classification  116  can additionally or alternatively include one or more confidence values or other values indicating the likelihood of a classification, e.g., a “spyware” value of 0.42 indicating a 42% likelihood that the event is, e.g., an attempt to install spyware. In an example, classification  116  can include multiple confidence values for respective categories of malware (e.g., “spyware=0.42; worm=0.05”). 
     An event (or sequence of events, or composite event, and likewise throughout this document) can be associated with a security violation (e.g., an intrusion or other malicious behavior) if, e.g., the event was produced by malicious code (e.g., malware) or at least a portion of a grouping of malicious code (e.g., a benign file modified by a file infector virus); the event was triggered by a generator commonly used for generating malware (e.g., a packer or installer); or the event relates to creation or use of an input file relied on by malware (e.g., a large sequence of data designed to trigger a buffer overflow that will permit remote code execution, or shellcode embedded in a document file). Examples of security violations or activity associated therewith can include: the specific exploitation of a vulnerability (e.g., to gain the ability to execute code on a computing device  104  or to elevate privileges on the computing device  104 ); the use by an adversary of stolen credentials to run commands via an administrative protocol such as Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI, or other exploitation of user credentials and remote-access or system-management protocols or tools to gain unauthorized access to a computing device  104 . 
     In an example of generators, a data stream may include a decruncher that decompresses data from a file into RAM. A decruncher itself may be entirely benign. However, the decompressed data may be or include executable code of a malicious program, dynamic-link library (DLL), or other computer-executable module. Accordingly, a decruncher commonly used to compress malicious code, or compressed malicious code itself, may be associated with a security violation, and events related to the decruncher may be indicated as such by the classification  116 . Malicious code, generators, shellcode, and other data streams described in this paragraph are referred to for brevity as “associated with a security violation.” 
     In some examples, malware comprises malicious data instead of or in addition to malicious code. Such data is also considered to be associated with a security violation, and events triggered by or otherwise related to such data can be considered to be associated with security violations. For example, some programs may have bugs that prevent them from correctly processing certain inputs. Examples include Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attacks, in which a program populates a query with unescaped external data. For example, the query template “SELECT cost from Products WHERE name LIKE ‘%{$name}%’;” can be abused by providing malicious data to be populated in place of the placeholder “{$name}”. When the malicious data $name=“foo’; DROP TABLE Products; --” is substituted into the query template, for example, the resulting query will cause the “Products” table of the database to be deleted (“dropped”), causing unexpected loss of data. 
     In another example, malicious data can include malformed UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format-8 bit) that causes a buggy UTF-8 processing routine to enter an unexpected or erroneous state. In still another example, malicious data can include data that is too large or too complicated for a processing routine to handle, e.g., a Christmas-tree packet. Such data can trigger buffer overflows or other vulnerabilities within processing routines. Data designed to trigger or exploit vulnerabilities is associated with a security violation. 
     For generators and other examples or use cases described herein, a determination that an event is associated with a security violation does not necessarily require or guarantee that the event indeed be triggered by malware or a targeted attack, or that any data stream related to the event in fact be associated with a security violation. For example, some generators and input streams are used for malware, and are also used for legitimate software. In some examples, classification  116  can be used by a security analyst (e.g., entity  120 ) in triaging events, and can permit the security analyst to readily separate events based on a likelihood they are in fact associated with malware or targeted attacks. In some examples, a computer-security system can delete or quarantine files associated with security violations, or terminate processes launched from data streams associated with a security violation or represented in events associated with security violations. 
     Except as expressly indicated otherwise, a determination of whether a data stream or event is associated with malware or another security violation is carried out programmatically by or using CM(s)  114  or other algorithms, e.g., according to techniques herein. Various examples herein can be performed without human judgment of whether an event or data stream is in fact malicious. Using CM(s)  114 , clustering or dimensionality-reduction algorithms, or other techniques herein can permit identifying potential computational threats, e.g., in the context of an antivirus program, cloud security service, or on-premises security appliance, more readily than in some prior schemes. 
     By way of example and not limitation, computing device(s)  102  or  104  can include, but are not limited to, server computers or blade servers such as Web servers, map/reduce servers or other computation engines, or network-attached-storage units (e.g.,  102 ( 1 )), laptop computers, thin clients, terminals, or other mobile computers (e.g.,  104 ( 1 )), wearable computers such as smart watches or biometric or medical sensors, implanted computing devices such as biometric or medical sensors, computer navigation client computing devices, satellite-based navigation system devices including global positioning system (GPS) devices or other satellite-based navigation system devices, personal data assistants (PDAs), or other specialized portable electronic devices (e.g.,  104 ( 2 )), tablet computers, tablet hybrid computers, smartphones, mobile phones, mobile phone-tablet hybrid devices, or other telecommunication devices (e.g.,  104 ( 3 )), portable or console-based gaming devices or other entertainment devices such as network-enabled televisions, set-top boxes, media players, cameras, or personal video recorders (PVRs) (e.g.,  104 ( 4 ), depicted as a joystick), automotive computers such as vehicle control systems, vehicle security systems, or electronic keys for vehicles (e.g.,  104 (K), depicted as an automobile), desktop computers, or integrated components for inclusion in computing devices, appliances, or other computing device(s) configured to participate in or carry out computational-model determination or operation as described herein, e.g., for file-analysis or malware-detection purposes. 
     In some examples, computing devices  102 ( 1 )- 102 (N) in cluster  106  can, e.g., share resources, balance load, increase performance, or provide fail-over support or redundancy. Computing devices  104  can additionally or alternatively operate in a cluster or grouped configuration. In the illustrated example, computing devices  104  communicate with computing devices  102 . Additionally or alternatively, computing devices  104  can communicate with cluster  106 , e.g., with a load-balancing or job-coordination device of cluster  106 , and cluster  106  or components thereof can route transmissions to individual computing devices  102 . 
     Some cluster-based systems can have all or a portion of the cluster deployed in the cloud. Cloud computing allows for computing resources to be provided as services rather than a deliverable product. For example, in a cloud-computing environment, resources such as computing power, software, information, or network connectivity are provided (for example, through a rental agreement) over a network, such as the Internet. As used herein, the term “computing” used with reference to computing clusters, nodes, and jobs refers generally to computation, data manipulation, or other programmatically-controlled operations. The term “resource” used with reference to clusters, nodes, and jobs refers generally to any commodity or service provided by the cluster for use by jobs. Resources can include processor cycles, disk space, random-access memory (RAM) space, network bandwidth (uplink, downlink, or both), prioritized network channels such as those used for communications with quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees, backup tape space or mounting/unmounting services, electrical power, etc. Cloud resources can be provided for internal use within an organization or for sale to outside customers. In some examples, computer security service providers can operate cluster  106 , or can operate or subscribe to a cloud service providing computing resources. 
     In other examples, cluster  106  or computing device(s)  102  can be deployed as a computing appliance operated by or on behalf of a particular user, group, or organization. For example, a corporation may deploy an appliance per office site, per division, or for the company as a whole. In some examples, the computing appliance can be a central, single-tenant, on-premises appliance. In some examples, a computing appliance can be used to implement at least one of the computing device(s)  102  in addition to, or instead of, a cloud service. 
     Network(s)  108  can include any type of wired or wireless network, including but not limited to local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), satellite networks, cable networks, Wi-Fi networks, WiMAX networks, mobile communications networks (e.g., 3G, 4G, and so forth) or any combination thereof. Network(s)  108  can utilize communications protocols, such as, for example, packet-based or datagram-based protocols such as Internet Protocol (IP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), other types of protocols, or combinations thereof. Moreover, network(s)  108  can also include a number of devices that facilitate network communications or form a hardware infrastructure for the networks, such as switches, routers, gateways, access points, firewalls, base stations, repeaters, backbone devices, and the like. Network(s)  108  can also include devices that facilitate communications between computing devices  102  or  104  using bus protocols of various topologies, e.g., crossbar switches, INFINIBAND switches, or FIBRE CHANNEL switches or hubs. 
     In some examples, network(s)  108  can further include devices that enable connection to a wireless network, such as a wireless access point (WAP). Examples support connectivity through WAPs that send and receive data over various electromagnetic frequencies (e.g., radio frequencies), including WAPs that support Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards (e.g., 802.11g, 802.11n, and so forth), other standards, e.g., BLUETOOTH, cellular-telephony standards such as GSM, LTE, or WiMAX. 
     As noted above, network(s)  108  can include public network(s) or private network(s). Example private networks can include isolated networks not connected with other networks, such as MODBUS, FIELDBUS, or Industrial Ethernet networks used internally to factories for machine automation. Private networks can also include networks connected to the Internet or other public network(s) via network address translation (NAT) devices, firewalls, network intrusion detection systems, or other devices that restrict or control the types of network packets permitted to flow between the private network and the public network(s). 
     Different networks have different characteristics, e.g., bandwidth or latency, and for wireless networks, accessibility (open, announced but secured, or not announced), or coverage area. The type of network  108  used for any given connection between, e.g., a computing device  104  and cluster  106  can be selected based on these characteristics and on the type of interaction, e.g., ongoing streaming or intermittent request-response communications. 
     Illustrative Configurations 
       FIG. 2  is an illustrative diagram that shows example components of a computing device  200 , which can represent computing device(s)  102  or  104 , and which can be or implement a security-analysis or security-event user-interface system, device, or apparatus, according to various examples described herein. Computing device  200  can include or be included in a system or device for determining or operating a computational model, analyzing events, or permitting interaction with events via a user interface, as described herein. In some examples, computing device  200  can be or include at least a portion of a computer-security system. 
     Computing device  200  can include or be connected to a user interface (UI)  202 . In some examples, UI  202  can be configured to permit a user, e.g., entity  110 ,  120  or a computational-model (CM) administrator, to operate the CM(s)  114  or to place other techniques herein into service, or to control or otherwise interact with cluster  106  or computing devices  102  therein. Accordingly, actions such as presenting information of or corresponding to an output of a CM  114  to entity  110 ,  120  can be taken via UI  202 . 
     In some examples, UI  202  can include various types of output devices configured for communication to a user or to another computing device  200 . Output devices can be integral or peripheral to computing device  200 . Examples of output devices can include a display  204 , a printer, audio speakers, beepers, or other audio output devices, a vibration motor, linear vibrator, or other haptic output device, and the like. Display  204  can include an organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) display, a liquid-crystal display (LCD), a cathode-ray tube (CRT), or another type of visual display. For example, display  204  can present a rendered view of a Web page served by computing device(s)  102 . Display  204  can be a component of a touchscreen, or can include a touchscreen. 
     UI  202  can include a user-operable input device  206  (depicted as a keyboard). User-operable input device  206  can include one or more input devices, integral or peripheral to computing device  200 . The input devices can be user-operable, or can be configured for input from other computing device  200 . Examples of input devices can include, e.g., a keyboard, keypad, a mouse, a trackball, a pen sensor or smart pen, a light pen or light gun, a game controller such as a joystick or game pad, a voice input device such as a microphone, voice-recognition device, or speech-recognition device, a touch input device such as a touchscreen, a gestural or motion input device such as a depth camera, a grip sensor, an accelerometer, another haptic input, a visual input device such as one or more cameras or image sensors, and the like. User queries can be received, e.g., from entity  110 ,  120 , via UI  202 . 
     Computing device  200  can further include one or more input/output (I/O) interface(s)  208  to allow computing device  200  to communicate with input, output, or I/O devices (for clarity of the drawing, only some are depicted). Examples of such devices can include components of UI  202 , such as user-operable input devices  206  and output devices such as display  204 . Other examples of such devices can include power meters, accelerometers, and other devices for measuring properties of entity  110 , computing device  200 , or another computing device  102  or  104 . Computing device  200  can communicate via I/O interface  208  with suitable devices or using suitable electronic/software interaction techniques. Input data, e.g., of user inputs on user-operable input device  206 , can be received via I/O interface  208  (e.g., one or more I/O interface(s)). Output data, e.g., of user-interface screens, can be provided via I/O interface  208  to display  204 , e.g., for viewing by a user. 
     The computing device  200  can include one or more processing unit(s)  210 . In some examples, processing unit(s)  210  can include or be connected to a memory  212 , e.g., a RAM or cache. Processing units  210  can be operably coupled to the I/O interface  208  and to at least one computer-readable medium  214  (CRM), e.g., a tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium. 
     Processing unit(s)  210  can be or include one or more single-core processors, multi-core processors, CPUs, GPUs, GPGPUs, or hardware logic components configured, e.g., via specialized programming from modules or APIs, to perform functions described herein. For example, and without limitation, illustrative types of hardware logic components that can be used in or as processing units  210  include Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Application-specific Standard Products (ASSPs), System-on-a-chip systems (SOCs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), and other types of customizable processors. For example, processing unit(s)  210  can represent a hybrid device, such as a device from ALTERA (INTEL) or XILINX that includes a CPU core embedded in an FPGA fabric. These or other hardware logic components can operate independently or, in some instances, can be driven by a CPU. In some examples, at least some of computing device(s)  102  or  104 ,  FIG. 1 , can include a plurality of processing units  210  of multiple types. For example, the processing units  210  in computing device  102 (N) can be a combination of one or more GPGPUs and one or more FPGAs. Different processing units  210  can have different execution models, e.g., as is the case for graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing unit (CPUs). In some examples at least one processing unit  210 , e.g., a CPU, graphics processing unit (GPU), or hardware logic device, can be incorporated in computing device  200 , while in some examples at least one processing unit  210 , e.g., one or more of a CPU, GPU, or hardware logic device, can be external to computing device  200 . 
     Computer-readable media described herein, e.g., CRM  214 , includes computer storage media or communication media. Computer storage media includes tangible storage units such as volatile memory, nonvolatile memory, or other persistent, non-transitory, or auxiliary computer storage media, removable and non-removable computer storage media implemented in any technique or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable or -executable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. Computer storage media includes tangible or physical forms of media included in a device or hardware component that is part of a device or external to a device, including but not limited to RAM, static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), phase change memory (PRAM), read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), digital versatile disks (DVDs), optical cards or other optical storage media, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage, magnetic cards or other magnetic storage devices or media, solid-state memory devices, storage arrays, network attached storage, storage area networks, hosted computer storage or memories, storage, devices, or storage media that can be used to store and maintain information for access by a computing device  200 . 
     In contrast to computer storage media, communication media can embody computer-readable or -executable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as a carrier wave, or other transmission mechanism. As defined herein, computer storage media does not include communication media. 
     In some examples, CRM  214  can store instructions executable by the processing unit(s)  210 , or instructions executable by external processing units such as by an external central processing unit (CPU) or external processor of any type discussed herein. Any of these instructions are referred to herein as computer-executable instructions or processor-executable instructions. For example, CRM  214  can store instructions of an operating system (OS)  216 . CRM  214  can additionally or alternatively store at least one executable file  218 , e.g., a user program, device driver executable, or system-service/daemon executable, or another system component. In some examples, OS  216  can cause processing unit(s)  210  to load the computer-executable instructions from executable file  218  into a RAM or other high-speed memory, e.g., memory  212 , or to otherwise prepare computer-executable instructions from executable file  218  for execution by processing unit(s)  210 . Some examples, e.g., bare-metal embedded-systems configurations, can include a loader but not an OS  216 . Examples herein are discussed with reference to executable file  218  and can additionally or alternatively be used for other types of files, e.g., data files. 
     In some examples, a “control unit” as described herein includes processing unit(s)  210 . A control unit can also include, if required, memory  212 , CRM  214 , or portions of either or both of those. For example, a control unit can include a CPU or DSP and a computer storage medium or other tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by that CPU or DSP to cause that CPU or DSP to perform functions described herein. Additionally or alternatively, a control unit can include an ASIC, FPGA, or other logic device(s) wired (e.g., physically, or via blown fuses or logic-cell configuration data) to perform functions described herein. In some examples of control units including ASICs or other devices physically configured to perform operations described herein, a control unit does not include computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions. 
     Computer-executable instructions or other data stored on CRM  214  can include at least one computational model (CM)  220 , which can represent CM(s)  114 ,  FIG. 1 . CM  220  can be stored as data (e.g., parameters); as code (e.g., for testing branch points in a decision tree); or as a combination of data and code. CM  220  can include a representation mapping  222 . The representation mapping  222  can include a computational model, e.g., a neural network. Additionally or alternatively, the representation mapping  222  can include at least some parameters of a CM, e.g., parameters to be locked during training of a doc2vec model such as that described below with reference to operation  314 . Additionally or alternatively, the representation mapping  222  can include a lookup table, e.g., determined based at least in part on (e.g., extracted from) a trained computational model. The term “mapping” refers to the change of domain from command-line information (e.g., extracted terms) to vectors representing events, and does not require (although it does permit) that representation mapping  222  include a LUT, hash table, or similar structure. 
     Computer-executable instructions or other data stored on CRM  214  can include instructions of the OS  216 , a detection module  224 , a training module  226 , an operation module  228 , an interface module  230  (which can represent a user-interface subsystem), a communications module  232 , a mitigation module  234 , or other modules, programs, or applications that are loadable and executable by processing unit(s)  210 . Processing unit(s)  210  can be configured to execute modules of the plurality of modules. For example, the computer-executable instructions stored on the CRM  214  can upon execution configure a computer such as a computing device  200  to perform operations described herein with reference to the modules of the plurality of modules. The modules stored in the CRM  214  can include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing units  210 , cause the one or more processing units  210  to perform operations described below. For example, the computer-executable instructions stored on the CRM  214  can upon execution configure a computer such as a computing device  102  or  104  to perform operations described herein with reference to the OS  216  or the above-listed modules  224 - 234 . 
     For brevity, discussions of functions performed “by” module(s) (or similar terms) refer, in the context of processor-executable instructions, to functions performed in response to processor-executable instructions of the referred-to module(s). In the context of FPGAs or other control units not using processor-executable instructions, discussions of functions performed “by” module(s) refer to functions performed by the special-purpose logic or other configuration of those module(s). Various aspects herein may be embodied as computer program products including computer-readable program code (“program code”) stored on a computer-readable medium, e.g., a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium. 
     In some examples not shown, one or more of the processing unit(s)  210  in one of the computing device(s)  102  or  104  can be operably connected to CRM  214  in a different one of the computing device(s)  102  or  104 , e.g., via communications interface  236  (discussed below) and network  108 . For example, program code to perform steps of flow diagrams herein, e.g., as described herein with reference to modules  224 - 234 , can be downloaded from a server, e.g., computing device  102 ( 1 ), to a client, e.g., computing device  104 (K), e.g., via the network  108 , and executed by one or more processing unit(s)  210  in computing device  104 (K). 
     The computing device  200  can also include a communications interface  236 , which can include a transceiver or other network-interface device such as a network interface controller (NIC) to send and receive communications over a network  108  (shown in phantom), e.g., as discussed above. As such, the computing device  200  can have network capabilities. Communications interface  236  can include any number of network, bus, memory, or register-file interfaces, in any combination, whether packaged together or separately. In some nonlimiting examples, the communications interface  236  consists of a network interface. A bus communications interface  236  can include, e.g., an expansion-card bus interface (e.g., PCI Express), a display bus interface (e.g., HDMI or DISPLAYPORT), or a peripheral-device bus interface (e.g., USB or THUNDERBOLT). In some examples, communications interface  236  can include a memory bus internal to a particular computing device  102  or  104 , transmitting or providing data via communications interface  236  can include storing the data in memory  212  or CRM  214 , and receiving via communications interface  236  can include retrieving data from memory  212  or CRM  214 . In some examples, communications interface  236  can include a datapath providing a connection to a register file within a processor. For example, a first software module can load parameters into the register file via the datapath, and then and issue a function call to a second software module. The second software module can retrieve the parameters from the register file and return a result via the register file. 
     In some examples, the communications interface  236  can include, but is not limited to, a transceiver for cellular (3G, 4G, or other), WI-FI, Ultra-wideband (UWB), BLUETOOTH, or satellite transmissions. The communications interface  236  can include a wired I/O interface, such as an Ethernet interface, a serial interface, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, an INFINIBAND interface, or other wired interfaces. The communications interface  236  can additionally or alternatively include at least one user-interface device or user interface, at least one bus such as a memory bus, datapath, or local bus, at least one memory interface, or at least one hardwired interface such as a 0-20 mA control line. 
     In some examples, the OS  216  can include components that enable or direct the computing device  200  to receive data via various inputs (e.g., user controls such as user-operable input device  206 , network or communications interfaces such as communications interface  236 , devices implementing memory  212 , or sensors), and process the data using the processing unit(s)  210  to generate output. For example, the communications module  232  and communications interface(s)  236  can receive event data representing an event associated with a monitored computing device  104 , e.g., as discussed herein with reference to event record  112 ,  240 , command-line record  306 ,  308 , or event data  404 . The OS  216  can further include one or more components that present the output (e.g., display an image on an electronic display  204 , store data in memory  212 , or transmit data to another computing device  102  or  104 . The OS  216  can enable a user (e.g., entity  110 ) to interact with the computing device  200  using a UI  202 . Additionally, the OS  216  can include components that perform various functions generally associated with an OS, e.g., storage management and internal-device management. 
     In some examples, the processing unit(s)  210  can access the module(s) on the CRM  214  via a bus  238 . I/O interface  208  and communications interface  236  can also communicate with processing unit(s)  210  via bus  238 . Bus  238  can include, e.g., at least one of a system bus, a data bus, an address bus, a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express (PCIe) bus, a PCI bus, a Mini-PCI bus, any variety of local, peripheral, or independent buses (e.g., of any of the types described herein with reference to bus communications interface  236 ), or any combination thereof. 
     In various examples, the number of modules can vary higher or lower, and modules of various types can be used in various combinations. For example, functionality described associated with the illustrated modules can be combined to be performed by a fewer number of modules or APIs or can be split and performed by a larger number of modules or APIs. For example, the training module  226  and the operation module  228  can be combined in a single module that performs at least some of the example functions described below of those modules, or likewise the communications module  232  with either the training module  226  or the operation module  228 , the communications module  232  and the mitigation module  234 , or the communications module  232  and the detection module  224 . In some examples, CRM  214  can include a subset of the above-described modules. 
     In the illustrated example, the communications module  232  can receive event record(s)  240 , as represented by the stippled arrows. In some examples, detection module  224  e.g., running at a monitored computing device  104 , can detect activity at monitored computing device  104  and determine corresponding event record(s)  240 . Examples of detection are discussed below. In some examples, communications module  232  can transmit event record(s)  240  determined by detection module  224 , e.g., to cluster  106 . The event records  240  can include separate training records and trial records. Additionally or alternatively, at least some of the event records  240  can be used both as training records and as trial records (e.g., initially as trial records, then later, at a time of retraining of CM  220 , as training records). 
     In the illustrated example, the training module  226  can determine at least part of the CM  220 , e.g., the representation mapping  222 . The representation mapping  222  can be determined, e.g., based at least in part on at least one training event record of the event record(s)  240 , which can represent event record(s)  112 . For example, the training module  226  can update parameters of a neural network, or rebuild or update a decision forest, based at least in part on event record(s)  240  or event data therein, e.g., command-line data. 
     Various examples of training or operation of a CM  220  can include initializing CM  220  with random parameter values, then performing gradient-descent, backpropagation, or other iterative parameter-updating techniques to update the parameter values of CM  220 . Various examples train CM  220  on a set of training data, and validate performance of CM  220  on a set of validation data. Various examples then use CM  220  to evaluate test data. 
     In some examples, the training module  226  can perform a supervised learning technique or routine to determine a trained CM  220 , e.g., using labeled training data. For example, the training data can include events  126 ,  302  or command-line texts  310  ( FIG. 3 ) collected at monitored computing device(s)  104  or other computing device(s), together with, for each item  126 ,  302 ,  310 , a respective benign vs. malicious indication (or other classification  116  or result record  124 ), e.g., determined by entit(ies)  120  or by other analysis techniques such as those described herein. In some examples, the classification training data can include substantially equal numbers of benign and malicious samples. In other examples, the classification training data can include a number of benign samples that is substantially different from the number of malicious samples. In still other examples, the classification training data can include some repeats, selected at random, to control the ratio of benign data to malicious data in the classification training data. In some examples, the number of benign samples in the classification training data is higher than the number of malicious samples, e.g., by about 5%, about 10%, or about 15%. 
     The classification training data can include duplicate data samples or not. In some examples, the classification training data includes at most one occurrence of any particular event  126 ,  302 . In some examples, the classification training data includes at most one occurrence of any particular command-line text  310 ,  312  ( FIG. 3 ). In some examples, the classification training data includes at most one occurrence of any particular (per-process) command line (e.g., command lines  508 ,  FIG. 5 ). In some examples, the classification training data includes at most one occurrence of any particular command-line text for each monitored computing device  104  on which that command-line text was detected. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIG. 3 . 
     In some examples, the classification training data includes, per label (e.g., per classification  116 ), at most one occurrence of any particular command-line text  310 ,  312 , or of any particular (per-process) command line (e.g., per command line of the command lines  508 ). For example, the command line “whoami” may occur exactly twice in classification training data: a first time in association with a clean event  126 , and a second time in association with a dirty event  126 . In another example, the command-line text  310  may occur exactly twice in classification training data: a first time in association with a clean event  126 , and a second time in association with a dirty event  126 . 
     In some examples, the training module  226  can perform an unsupervised learning technique or routine in addition to or instead of a supervised learning technique or routine. For example, unsupervised learning can be used to train a sub-classifier, and a smaller amount of labeled data than would be required for full supervised learning can be used to train a model from sub-classifier results to an output  242  (discussed below). 
     The training module  226  can determine the trained CM  220  to output classifications  116  or other outputs  242 , e.g., with at least a predetermined level of accuracy, for the classification training data. In some examples, the training module  226  can perform minibatch-based training, e.g., with randomly-selected minibatches of the classification training data. In some examples, the training module  226  can run at least one training epoch, then validate using a validation set. In some examples, the training module  226  can test performance of the CM  220  on the validation set during training to reduce the probability of overfitting. Even if the CM  220  is very accurate on the training data, the training module  226  may retrain or adjust the CM  220  if the CM  220  is not very accurate on the validation set. 
     In some examples, training operations, e.g., gradient-descent epochs, can be repeated as long as accuracy on the validation set is improving as training proceeds, and can terminate when accuracy on the validation set ceases to improve as training proceeds. This can permit detecting overfitting, e.g., when accuracy on the validation set ceases to improve. Avoiding overfitting can permit determining CMs that have a higher probability of successfully determining whether events are associated with security violations, even for command lines not represented in the training data (“unseen samples”). In some examples, the number of epochs can be between 100 and 300, or between 100 and 500. 
     In some examples, training operations described herein can be carried out on a schedule, e.g., weekly or monthly; on expiration of a predetermined validity period of CM(s)  220 ; or when an accuracy of CM(s)  220  has degraded to a predetermined threshold. The number of inputs, input sets, or operation units shown herein is not limiting; the number shown can be used, or more than the number shown can be used, for any input, input set, or operation unit, or any combination of those shown. 
     In some examples, the CMs  220  include decision trees or forests, or other types of CM described herein with reference to CM(s)  114 . Training module  226  can train trees or forests via recursive partitioning, boosting, bagging, RANDOM FOREST or xgboost training, or other techniques for building decision trees based, e.g., on feature values in classification training data. In some examples of regression trees, each leaf can hold a numerical value, e.g., of +1 to indicate association with a security violation, or −1 to indicate lack of such an association. Other values can be used, e.g., zero and one. In some examples of classification trees, each leaf can include an output, e.g., a bit or other discrete value, indicating whether the corresponding term subset is considered by the corresponding decision tree to be clean or dirty. 
     Various examples operate on terms received in event records  240 , e.g., command-line text  310 ,  312 . Command lines can be divided into terms, e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operation  406 . Some examples map the terms into an encoding, e.g., one-hot, for use in CMs  220 . In some examples, the training module  226  sorts a term corpus by frequency to provide a sorted term corpus. The term corpus and the sorted term corpus can include at least some terms drawn from or occurring in document corpus(es) described herein with reference to operation  314 . The frequency can include a frequency of occurrence in the term corpus, a term-frequency/inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) of the term with respect to a term corpus including multiple documents, or another measure of frequency. In some examples, no stopword processing or stemming is applied to the term corpus. The sorting can include rearranging data of the term corpus in memory  212  or CRM  214 , adjusting links in a linked list or other data structure representing term corpus in memory, or recording frequency information without actually performing any data rearrangement. 
     The term corpus can include, e.g., terms extracted (e.g., per operation  406 ) from data collected by a security service system, e.g., data of benign- or malicious-process command-line text (e.g., command-line text  310 ). In some examples, the term corpus can include terms extracted from individual command lines, or from groups of command lines such as command-line text  310 ,  312 . 
     In some examples, the training module  226  can replace the K≥2 lowest-frequency (e.g., least-commonly-occurring) terms in the sorted term corpus with an unknown-term indicator. The unknown-term indicator can be, e.g., a string that is not a valid term under the extraction rules defined by operation  406  or as otherwise discussed herein. In an example in which terms match qr{\w+|[{circumflex over ( )}\w\s]+}, the unknown-term indicator can be the string “u t”, which does not match that regular expression. Additionally or alternatively, in a system in which qr{\w} only matches ASCII characters, a Unicode or other non-ASCII character can be used in the unknown-term indicator. Using an unknown-term indicator for low-frequency terms can reduce or centralize noise that might otherwise be introduced while determining a term representation for a low-frequency term. 
     In the illustrated example, the operation module  228  can operate the CM  220  based at least in part on, e.g., at least one trial event record of the event record(s)  240 , to provide an output  242 . Output  242  can represent, e.g., classification  116  or another indication of whether an event is associated with a security violation. 
     In some examples in which the CM  220  includes a decision tree, the operation module  228  can perform successive tests for specific characteristics while traversing the decision tree. In some examples in which the CM  220  includes a decision forest, the operation module  228  can perform successive tests for specific characteristics while traversing each decision tree, and can provide a classification  116  or other output  242  indicating, e.g., the mode (most common) of the results of traversing the trees, or a summation of the individual decision values of each tree. In some examples of classification, each leaf can include respective weight values for one or more classes. The operation module  228  can sum the weights for each class over all the trees and pick the class with the highest total weight as classification  116  or another output  242 . In some examples, the operation module  228  can apply a logistic or other squashing function, e.g., to each weight before summing or to the sums of the weights. 
     In some examples, the CMs  220  include NNs, e.g., DNNs. An NN can include a softmax, threshold, clipping, clamping, or other operation to output(s) from neuron outputs of the output layer or the last hidden layer, although this not required in some examples. In some NN examples, the operation module  228  can operate CM  220  at least partly by applying multiplication, summing, and activation functions to successive layers of the NN. Operation module  228  can provide the outputs of each layer, transformed based on edge weights, as inputs to the next layer. 
     Output  242  is shown as stored in CRM  214 . Output  242  can additionally or alternatively be stored in memory  212  or another processor-accessible storage device, e.g., a transmit buffer of communications interface  236 . In some examples, CM  220  can be configured to provide a classification  116  for any type of event. In other examples, CM  220  can be configured to provide a classification  116  for events known to be of a particular type. For example, separate CMs  220  can be determined and operated for malware-related events and for targeted-attack events. 
     In some examples, the training module  226  or the operation module  228  can operate the CM  220  based at least in part on training event record(s)  112  of a validation set to evaluate the performance of the CM  220 . The CM  220 , e.g., the representation mapping  222 , can then be updated based on the evaluation. The dashed arrow from operation module  228  to training module  226  depicts coordination between those modules. Alternatively, the evaluation and updating can both be performed by the training module  226 . 
     In some examples, the interface module  230  can present representations of event record(s)  240  or output(s)  242 , e.g., via UI  202 . Additionally or alternatively, interface module  230  can receive indications of tag(s) or other data, e.g., via UI  202 . Interface module  230  can then associate events with those tag(s) or other data items, e.g., by updating event record(s)  240 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIGS. 9-14 . 
     In some examples, the communications module  232  can provide an indication of the output  242 , e.g., via the communications interface  236 . For example, the indication can be transmitted to a computing device  104 , e.g., via network(s)  108 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to at least  FIG. 4-6, 8, 10 , or  14 . In some examples, communications module  232  can additionally or alternatively receive the executable file  218  (or another data stream) via the communications interface  236 . 
     In the illustrated example, the mitigation module  234  can receive an indication that an event is associated with a security violation, or an indication of a mitigation action to take. The indication can be, e.g., output  242 . The mitigation module  234  can then take action to reduce negative effects a dirty process, data stream, or other system component related to the event may cause. For example, the mitigation module  234  can terminate process(es), delete or quarantine file(s), or trigger a reboot. Additionally or alternatively, mitigation module  234  can take action to monitor a security violation in more detail (e.g., to collect stack traces or profiling data of a process) in order to permit more effectively reducing the negative effects of that security violation. In some examples, the mitigation module  234  can take a mitigation action (e.g., in response to security commands  424 ,  FIG. 4 ) based at least in part on the monitored computing device  104 . For example, a mitigation action on a honeypot computing device  104  can be to increase the detail of data collection, while a mitigation action on a home PC computing device  104  can be to kill malicious processes. This can permit cluster  106  to process data from both types of computing devices  104  using the same or similar techniques, which can increase processing speed and efficiency at cluster  106 . In some examples, mitigation module  234  can be included in or associated with OS  216 . For example, mitigation module  234  can run at ring zero (on x86 processors) or another high-privilege execution level. 
     In some examples, the mitigation module  234  can quarantine a file or other data stream (e.g., indicated in a security command  424 ,  FIG. 4 ). The file or data stream can be, e.g., a data stream associated with a dirty event  126 ). For example, the mitigation module  234  can move, rename, archive, or encrypt, the data stream, or otherwise prevent the data stream from being, e.g., loaded or accessed. The mitigation module  234  can additionally or alternatively alter or remove settings, e.g., registry keys or /etc/inittab entries, to prevent OS  216  from loading the data stream. Additionally or alternatively, the mitigation module  234  can terminate a process, e.g., a process associated with a dirty event  126 . 
     In some examples, the operation module  228 , the communications module  232 , or another module stored in CRM  214  can be configured to receive inputs, e.g., via user-operable input device  206  or from a filesystem, transmit corresponding queries to a computing device  102 , receive responses from computing device  102 , and present the responses, e.g., via display  204 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIGS. 9-14  (e.g., Web-browser interfaces using AJAX or COMET to transmit queries and receive responses). In some examples, the operation module  228 , the communications module  232 , or another module stored in CRM  214  (e.g., a module in communication with UI  202 ) can be configured to receive tags or other information, e.g., via UI  202 , and to associate one or more event record(s)  240  with the tag. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIGS. 9-14 . In some examples, a computing device  102  executes at least one of modules  226 ,  228 ,  230 , and  232 , and a computing device  104  executes at least one of modules  230 ,  232 , and  234 . In some examples, one or more computing device(s) execute module  226 , and one or more different computing device(s) execute module  228 . 
     In some examples, any of the above-noted modules can be configured to receive inputs and to determine or operate CM(s)  114  or perform other analyses using instructions of operation module  228  based at least in part on those inputs, e.g., to determine an output  242 . In some examples, computer-executable instructions on CRM  214  can include, but are not limited to, instructions of a Web browser, smartphone app or desktop application, background service conducting or monitoring network communications, or instant-messaging client, or can include components of any of those configured to perform functions described herein. Such programs or components can invoke or include functions of any of the listed modules. 
     In some examples, operation module  228  (or another module of computing device  200 ) includes a representation subsystem  244 , a reduction subsystem  246 , a clustering subsystem  248 , and a security subsystem  250 . In other examples, computing device  200  excludes one of, any number of, or all of, subsystems  244 - 250 . In the illustrated example, subsystems  244 - 250  are shown as components of operation module  228 . In some other examples, some functions of training module  226  or other modules described herein are included in at least one of subsystems  244 - 250 . 
     In some examples, representation subsystem  244  can be configured to determine at least two term representations based at least in part on command-line text associated with an event, or to determine event vectors representing events, e.g., using the representation mapping  222 . In some examples, reduction subsystem  246  can be configured to determine reduced event vectors having lower dimensionality. In some examples, clustering subsystem  248  can be configured to cluster event vectors or reduced event vectors to divide events into groups. In some examples, security subsystem  250  can be configured to determine whether an event is associated with a computer-security violation, and to provide indications or security commands, or perform tagging, in response. 
     In some examples, a computer-security system includes computing device(s)  200  representing computing device(s)  102  and other computing device(s)  200  representing monitored computing device(s)  104 . Detection module  224  can be, include, or be part of a security agent executable on the monitored computing device and configured to send at least some of the event data via a network interface to a network interface of computing device(s)  102 . In some examples, computing device(s)  102  can add data to an event or trigger additional event(s) based on the event data received from monitored computing device(s)  104 . 
     In the illustrated example, detection module  224  (e.g., a security agent running on computing device  104 ) can detect events and provide corresponding event records  240 . Additionally or alternatively, communications module  232  (e.g., running on a computing device  102 ) can receive event records  240  describing events. In some examples, communications module  232  can receive queries  122  for processing by operation module  228 . Communications module  232  can provide to a computing device  118  or other query-originating device(s) the result record(s)  124 , e.g., including or representing output(s)  242 . 
     In some examples, event records  240 , queries  122 , result records  124 , or other data described herein, can be transmitted, e.g., via HTTP requests transmitted over TCP connections. For example, an HTTP request conveying a record, e.g., in a body of the request, can also include a URL parameter, HTTP cookie, or other data carrying identifying information or credentials associated with the record. Result records  124  and other data herein can be carried in an HTTP response header or body, or other response to a request or unprompted transmission. 
     In some examples, detection module  224  can include a kernel-level security agent (e.g., part of OS  216 , as shown) or a user-level security agent. In various embodiments, the kernel-level security agent can be installed on the host computing device in the form of a driver. For example, a driver or other implementation of detection module  224  can use hooks or filter drivers, or monitor memory or log files, as discussed below. 
     In some examples, the kernel-level security agent can operate on computing device  104  as a virtual machine/shadow OS. The kernel-level security agent can load before the OS  216  of the host computing device, e.g., very early in the boot-time of the host computing device, by some of the first few dozen instructions in some examples. Pre-boot components of detection module  224  can leverage hardware-provided security features, e.g., firmware signing, although this is not required. By loading early in boot-time, the kernel-level security agent significantly reduces the window in which malware can become active and interfere with operation of the host computing device or run unobserved on the host computing device. In some embodiments, by leveraging hardware-based security features, the agent can also validate the integrity of its computing operations and data and additionally enhance the level of security provided. 
     In some examples, the detection module  224  can be received from or operable with a security service. Such a security service may be implemented as a cloud of security service devices, e.g., cluster  106 , referred to herein as a “security service cloud” or a “remote security system.” The security service cloud can, e.g., install the detection module  224  on the computing device  104 ; receive event records  240  or other notifications of observed events from the detection module  224 ; perform analysis of data associated with those events; perform, direct, or trigger mitigation actions at computing device(s)  104 ; or generate configuration updates and provide those updates to the detection module  224 . These or other interactions between the kernel-level security agent and the security service cloud can enable a detection loop that defeats the malware update loop of adversaries, such as malware developers. 
     In some examples, detection module  224  can include various components, e.g., various software modules. Components can include collectors, filters, routers/dispatchers, or event consumers. Collectors can receive notifications of events (e.g., file writes and launching executables) from host OS hooks or filter drivers, from user-mode event monitors, or from threads monitoring log files or memory locations. Filters can filter data of these events, e.g., to remove the need to perform further processing on benign events. Routers/dispatchers can provide data from the filters to event consumer(s), such as correlators or actor components. A correlator component notes the fact of the occurrence of the filtered events. An actor component may, for example, gather forensic data associated with an event and provide an event record  240  including the forensic data. 
     In various embodiments, a collector may register with a hook or filter driver offered by the OS  216  to receive notifications of the occurrence or non-occurrence of certain events, such as file creates, reads, and writes, and loading executables. A collector may monitor locations in memory or log files, or spawn a thread to do so, observing events associated with the log files or memory locations. A collector may observe multiple kinds of activities or data, or each kind may be associated with a different collector. The events observed by the collectors may be specified by a configuration of the detection module  224 . In some embodiments, the collectors observe all events on the computing device  104  and the configuration specifies configurable filters for filtering and dispatching those events. In other embodiments, the configuration specifies which collectors should be loaded to observe specific types of events. In yet other embodiments, the configuration both specifies which collectors should be loaded and configurable filters for filtering and dispatching events observed by those collectors. 
     Additionally or alternatively, the detection module  224  may include user mode collectors to observe events that may not be visible to kernel mode processes. Such events could include, for example, rendering of display graphics for display on a display screen of the computing device  104 . To observe these events, the detection module  224  is further configured to load user mode collectors as user-mode modules of the computing device  104 . Like the kernel-mode collectors described above, user mode collectors may observe multiple kinds of events or activities, or each kind may be associated with a different user mode collector. The events observed by the user mode collectors may be specified by a configuration of the detection module  224 . In some embodiments, the user mode collectors observe all user mode events on the computing device  104  and the configuration specifies configurable filters for filtering and dispatching the events. In other embodiments, the configuration specifies which user mode collectors should be loaded to observe specific types of events. In yet other embodiments, the configuration both specifies which user mode collectors should be loaded and configurable filters for filtering and dispatching those events. 
     In some examples, the detection module  224  (e.g., running at a monitored computing device  104  or in cluster  106 ) can build and maintain a model representing chains of execution activities and genealogies of processes. This model can be used to track attributes, behaviors, or patterns of processes executing on the computing device  104  and can enable an event consumer to determine when an event should be reported to the operation module  228  for evaluation. Upon determining an occurrence of such an event, the event consumer can perform any or all of: updating the situational model and performing further observation; generating an event record  240  to represent the determination that an event has occurred; notifying the security service cloud of the event (e.g., by transmitting event record  240  to the security service cloud, e.g., in cluster  106 ); or performing, directing, or triggering mitigation actions at computing device  104  (e.g., halting execution of a process associated with a security violation). In various embodiments, any or all of the observing, filtering, routing/dispatching, or utilizing of event consumers may occur in parallel with respect to multiple events. 
     In some examples that detect events based on chains of execution activities of the host computing device and other data described herein, rather than on fixed signatures, the kernel-level security agent is able to effectively detect processes associated with malicious code. While adversaries can easily change malware to avoid signature-based detection, it is significantly more difficult to avoid detection by an agent (e.g., detection module  224 ) that monitors and analyzes events. Cluster  106  (e.g., operation module  228  thereof) can process events from multiple computing devices  104  to detect more complex patterns of malicious activity. 
     Illustrative Techniques 
       FIG. 3  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  300  for determining an indication of whether an event is associated with a security violation, e.g., by performing representation, dimensionality-reduction, and clustering operations, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). Example functions shown in  FIG. 3  and other flow diagrams and example techniques herein can be implemented on or otherwise embodied in one or more computing device(s)  102  or  104 , e.g., a computing device  200 , e.g., using software running on such device(s), e.g., software executed by processing unit(s)  210 . Accordingly, the discussion of techniques  300 , and discussions of techniques in  FIGS. 4-14 , contemplate performance of the techniques, systems configured to perform the techniques, or computer-readable media (e.g., computer storage media) comprising instructions executable by at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform the techniques. 
     For the sake of illustration, the example techniques  300  are described below with reference to processing unit  210  and other components shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2  that can carry out or participate in the steps of the example techniques (e.g., a control unit), and with reference to data structures shown in  FIGS. 1 and 2 . However, other processing unit(s), such as processing unit(s)  210  or other components of computing device(s)  102  or  104 , can carry out step(s) of described example techniques such as techniques  300 . Similarly, example technique(s) shown in  FIGS. 4-14  are also not limited to being carried out by any specifically-identified components. 
     The order in which the operations are described in each example flow diagram or technique is not intended to be construed as a limitation, and any number of the described operations can be combined in any order or in parallel to implement each technique. In each flow diagram, fewer than all of the depicted operations can be performed, except as expressly noted. Moreover, the operations in each of  FIGS. 3-14  can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination thereof. In the context of software, the operations represent computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the recited operations. In the context of hardware, the operations represent logic functions implemented in circuitry, e.g., datapath-control and finite-state-machine sequencing functions. Therefore, descriptions of operations below also describe such software or hardware structures to carry out the described functions, e.g., sections of the hardware of an FPGA- or ASIC-based control unit. 
     Operations in  FIGS. 3-14  can be performed by modules or subsystems described herein with reference to  FIG. 2 . Alternatively, the number or arrangement of modules or subsystems performing functions described herein may be different from that shown in  FIG. 2 . Accordingly, references to specific modules or subsystems performing operations described herein are for clarity, and also envision other modules or subsystems that may perform those operations. 
     For clarity of explanation, the operations of  FIG. 3  are described in terms of batch processing. However, this is not limiting, and the operations of  FIG. 3  (or  FIGS. 4-14 ) can be performed in a streamed or pipelined manner, or any combination of batch, stream, and pipelined processing. 
     In some examples, detection module  224  running on a computing device  102  or  104  detects a plurality of events. Each event is associated with a monitored computing device  104 . For brevity, only two events  302 ,  304  (can represent respective events  126 ) are shown. In some examples, event  302  is associated with a process that has an ancestor process, e.g., a parent, grandparent, &amp;c. Detection module  224  can produce a plurality of event records  240  ( FIG. 2 ) including event data describing the respective events  302 ,  304 . Additionally or alternatively, communications module  232  can receive the event records  240 . Each event record  240  can include a respective command-line record  306 ,  308  associated with the respective event  302 ,  304 . 
     In some examples, an event record  240  can include data indicating an event type of the respective event  302 ,  304 . Event types are described herein for clarity using natural language, but can be identified in at least some software or hardware implementations using enumerated values, abbreviated text strings (e.g., reverse domain names), or other forms. Nonlimiting example event types can include, e.g., “process created,” “file opened,” “network connection established,” or “DNS request made.” In some examples, events  302 ,  304  of these types are detected by computing device  104 . Further nonlimiting example event types can include “grandchild process spawned,” “signature match,” or other event types of events  302 ,  304  detected based on information collected over time or supplemental information (e.g., an antivirus database) used in addition to sub-event data from computing device  104 . In some examples, events  302 ,  304  of these event types are detected by computing device(s)  102 . 
     In some examples, monitored computing device  104  sends event records  240  to cluster  106  representing process-launch sub-events. For example, an event record  240  representing a process-launch sub-event can include the command line of the launched process, a process ID (PID) of the launched process, and a process ID (PPID) of the parent of the launched process. Cluster  106  uses the PID and PPID to record relationships between processes. Cluster  106  can receive a process-launch sub-event and determine the number of processes in the chain beginning with the launched process and ending with the root process (e.g., init(8), the System process, PID 4, on a WINDOWS system, smss.exe, dwm.exe, wininit.exe, or winlogon.exe) running on the monitored computing device  104 . If the number is ≥3 (e.g., a grandchild of the root process, or farther down) (or ≥k, for predetermined integer k&gt;1), cluster  106  can trigger an event  302 ,  304  for processing as described herein. That event can have an event type of “process having parent and grandparent started” or similar. 
     Further example events  302 ,  304  can include or represent occurrences of at least one of the following, and can be indicated by corresponding event types.
         Creating a process, for example, creating of a command line interface (CLI) process;   Creating a thread;   Creating a remote thread (i.e., creating a thread in another process), for example, dynamic-link library (DLL) injection or other thread injection, which is an action that can be used to escape one process and pivot to another process;   Creating a new script (e.g., batch file, shell script, VISUAL BASIC script, or POWERSHELL script);   Creating a new executable (e.g., creating a portable executable (PE));   Accessing another process and reading from its memory or writing to its memory;   Creating a service (e.g., a service can be used to start a process or to start a process every time system is rebooted);   Modifying a service binary (e.g., changing portable executable files on disk instead of writing them);   Writing a dump file;   Decreasing security of a registration key or industry key;   A suspicious raw disk read; or   Privilege escalation in some contexts (e.g., user account control requests for elevation).       

     The “creation” events discussed above may be examples of events triggered while malware is dropping code on a monitored computing device. The actions discussed above may only trigger events when certain objects commit them. For example, when an Internet browser plug-in thread is compromised, activities such as CLI creation, process migration, installation, or PE creation and execution may be indicative of compromise of the Internet browser plug-in thread by a security violation. Moreover, an identity of an object that originated an action itself may determine whether or not an action taken by the monitored computing device triggers an event. For example, some plugins and processes are more susceptible to vulnerabilities and are therefore used for security violations more often. Actions taken by, or regarding, those plugins or processes may therefore trigger events. 
     Throughout this document, an event record  240 , or any other record described herein, can include one or more fields, each of which can have a name or other identifier, and each of which can include or be associated with one or more values. For example, event record  240  or other records herein can be represented as ASN.1-defined data structures, GOOGLE protobufs, JSON records, XML documents or subtrees, associative arrays, or other forms of tagged or key-value storage. Examples of fields can include, but are not limited to, timestamps, filenames, filehandles, userids (e.g., Windows SIDs), groupids, process identifiers, session identifiers, process command lines, command-line histories, universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), operating-system identifiers, e.g., from uname(1), permissions, access-control lists (ACLs), login types (e.g., with or without secure attention sequence), timestamps, blocks of data (e.g., headers or full contents of files or of regions of memory), hashes of data (e.g., of the blocks of data, such as file contents), IP or other network addresses (e.g., of computing device  104  or peers with which it is communicating or is attempting to communicate), network port numbers (e.g., local or remote), identifiers of detection module  224  (e.g., a version number), values from the registry, dotfiles, or other configuration data (e.g., crontab entries), call-stack entries, domain names (e.g., relative or fully-qualified, FQDN), names or other identifiers of mutexes, named pipes, or other inter-thread communication or inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms, or counts (e.g., of VIRUSTOTAL dirty indications). 
     In some examples, field values associated with an event  302 ,  304  indicating an action taken or attempted by a process can report the corresponding values before the action, after the action, or both (e.g., filename before or after a rename, or both). In some examples, field values can include the results of applying transform(s) to any of the above, e.g., to smash case or otherwise filter or preprocess the data. In some examples, an event record  240  can include information about a process that is currently running on the computing device  104 , or that has previously run on the computing device  104 . In some examples, an event record  240  can include information about at least one currently-running process and at least one related process (e.g., still running or already terminated), e.g., a parent process of the currently-running process. 
     In some examples, at least one event type can be associated with an event  302 ,  304  that only occurs when a specific OS  216  is running on the computing device  104  (e.g., WINDOWS-only events or MAC OS X-only events). In some examples, at least one event type can be associated with events  302 ,  304  that occur on multiple operating systems  216  (e.g., events that can occur on any OS providing a POSIX-compliant API). In some examples, an event type can indicate at least one of the following types of events  302 ,  304 : a user logging on or off, the detection module  224  starting up or shutting down, a process being created, a network name being looked up (e.g., via DNS), a network connection being initiated or established (e.g., IPv4 or IPv6), a value in an auto-start extensibility point (ASEP) being created or modified, an executable being created, modified, or deleted, a critical system file being modified, a file of a specific type or extension being created or updated (e.g., based on a database listing the specific type(s) or extension(s) to be monitored), a new scheduled task or daemon being registered or otherwise set up to execute at a future time or on a schedule, or a process making or attempting an access to a portion of a disk, memory, or other system resource not allocated to that process. 
     In some examples, detection module  224  provides, or communications module  232  receives, command-line text  310 ,  312  associated with the respective events  302 ,  304 . In some examples, command-line text  310 ,  312  is included in the command-line record  306 ,  308  or other data associated with the event  302 ,  304 . Command-line text  310 ,  312  can, for example, be included in a field in an event record  240 . Each of command-line text  310 ,  312  can include at least one command line associated with the respective event  302 ,  304 . Additionally or alternatively, each of command-line text  310 ,  312  can include at least two command lines associated with the respective event  302 ,  304 . For example, the command-line text  310  can include a first command line associated with a first process, and a second command line associated with an ancestor (e.g., parent, grandparent, . . . ) process of the first process. 
     In some examples, the at least two command lines (in command-line text  310 ) associated with the event  302  can include command lines of first, second, and third processes. The first process can be a process that triggered the event  302 . The second process can be a parent process of the first process. The third process can be a parent process of the second process. In some examples, the command-line text  310  comprises the concatenation of the first-, second-, and third-process command lines in a predetermined order (e.g., third-, then second-, then first-process, or vice versa, or any other order). For example, a remote-desktop host (third, grandparent process) may spawn a shell (second, parent process) (e.g., cmd, POWERSHELL, or sh), which in turn spawns a process (first process) selected by the user of remote-desktop services. 
     In the illustrated example, techniques  300  are used to determine whether event  302  is associated with a security violation. Event  304  (“dirty event”) is an event associated with a security violation, e.g., an event that has already been analyzed using techniques  300  or other techniques, e.g., virus scanning, and determined to be associated with a security violation. 
     At  314 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine a respective event vector  316 ,  318  for each event  302 ,  304  of the plurality of events. Each event vector  316 ,  318  can be determined based at least in part on at least a portion of (e.g., all of) the respective command-line record  306 ,  308 . Each event vector  316 ,  318  can have a first number of elements, e.g., ≥100 or 300 elements. In some examples, each event vector  316 ,  318  can include x2vec (e.g., doc2vec) representations of command lines in the command-line text  310 ,  312 , or of terms therein. 
     Operation  314  can include determining the event vectors  316 ,  318  based at least in part on a trained representation mapping  320 , which can represent representation mapping  222 . Representation mapping  320  can include an x2vec mapping. For example, a doc2vec model can be trained on a document corpus including representative command lines having representative terms (for example, qw{c : \ / - \\ &lt; | &gt; &gt;&gt; net find localhost}, among others), and the representation mapping  320  can be the fixed portion (e.g., weights after the hidden layer) of the parameters of the trained doc2vec model. In some examples, the corpus includes ≥10,000 terms (or ≥20,000, ≥30,000, ≥40,000, ≥50,000, ≥100,000, or ≥1,000,000). In some examples, the corpus includes command-line text  310  of both clean events and dirty events (e.g., event  304 ). 
     The representation mapping  320  can receive terms as input, e.g., in the form of text in the ASCII, CP437, UTF-8, or another encoding. The representation mapping  320  can include an internal lookup (e.g., a hash table or intern) to map from terms in the text to one-hot representations for input to doc2vec models or other representation models, such as RNN, autoencoder, or transformer models. In some examples, the internal lookup can map any term not included in the corpus to a predetermined “unknown-term” representation. Alternatively, the representation mapping  320  can receive encoded (e.g., one-hot) representations of terms. In some examples, the representation mapping  320  is or includes a lookup table (LUT), e.g., holding trained x2vec weights. In some examples, more than half of, &gt;90% of, or all of, the data stored in trained representation mapping  320  is determined computationally rather than being determined directly by human mental activity. 
     The term “x2vec” is used herein for brevity to designate word2vec, doc2vec, and similar models. An x2vec model comprises a hidden layer and an output layer and is trained, e.g., by training module  226  in an unsupervised or substantially unsupervised manner, e.g., using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or other gradient-descent techniques. The x2vec representation mapping  320  comprises at least some of the coefficients of the hidden layer or of portions of the model after the hidden layer. For example, in a skip-gram word2vec mapping, the model is trained to predict the probability that a pair of terms in a corpus will occur within a certain number of terms of each other. A word2vec-based x2vec representation mapping  320  comprises the coefficients of the hidden layer, and maps terms, e.g. in a one-hot encoding of the corpus, to term representations, e.g., vectors of numbers. In some examples of x2vec mapping  320 , two terms have relatively more similar term representations if they occur together relatively more commonly than if they occur together relatively less commonly. In some examples, representation mapping  320  is trained or determined by training module  226 . 
     A doc2vec (or “Paragraph Vector,” PV, although not limited to paragraphs) model is trained to predict the probability that a term will occur in a particular document (e.g., each command-line text  310 ,  312  can be a document). The training is conducted to permit an entire document to be represented numerically. A distributed bag-of-words (PV-DBOW) model can be trained to map from one-hot document IDs to one-hot IDs of terms (e.g., words) in that document (e.g., paragraph, or command line or set of command lines in some examples herein). Alternatively, a distributed-memory (PV-DM) model can be trained to map from an input that is a combination of a one-hot document ID and one-hot term IDs of terms in that document, e.g., consecutive terms, to an output that is a one-hot term ID of another term in that document, e.g., the term after the consecutive terms. The input can be, e.g., the one-hot document ID appended to one-hot term IDs. The training can involve training the document ID alongside the terms of that document to determine relationships between document IDs and term IDs. 
     For both PV-DBOW and PV-DM, the outputs of the hidden layer of a trained doc2vec model include vectors (e.g., 300-element vectors) representing document. A vector can be determined for a document not found in the training set by locking (setting as read-only) the parameters (e.g., weights, biases, or coefficients) downstream of the hidden layer (e.g., weights between the hidden layer and an output layer) and retraining with the new document and its words. For PV-DM, the locked parameters include the trained word vectors. The hidden-layer outputs resulting from training with parameters locked (except for the document vector) form the vector for the new document. 
     In some examples using doc2vec, representation mapping  320  can include the locked parameters. Operation  314  can include determining event vector  316  by training the locked-parameter doc2vec model on command-line text  310 , and likewise for event vector  318  from command-line text  312 . Further details of examples of doc2vec are discussed herein with reference to paras. [0148]ff. Other techniques useful for determining CMs, e.g., doc2vec models or other representation mappings  222 ,  320  are discussed above with reference to CMs  220  and training module  226 . 
     At  322 , the reduction subsystem  246  can determine a respective reduced event vector  324 ,  326  for each of the respective event vectors  316 ,  318 . Each reduced event vector can have a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements, e.g., &lt;100 elements, 3 elements, or 2 elements. Operation  322  can include determining the reduced event vectors  324 ,  326  at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), SNE, or other embedding of the event vectors  316 ,  318  in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements. In some examples, operation  322  can reduce the dimensionality of data to be processed while retaining relationships between events in a lower-dimensional space (of the reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ) that are similar to the relationships between those events in a higher-dimensional space (of event vectors  316 ,  318 ). Some examples use ≥1000 iterations of t-SNE. Further details of examples of t-SNE are discussed herein with reference to paras. [0148]ff. 
     At  328 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the reduced event vectors  324 ,  326  to determine a respective cluster identifier for each of the reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 . For example, the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the reduced event vectors using Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN), Hierarchical DBSCAN (HDBSCAN), k-means, k-medoids, or other clustering algorithms or techniques. Operation  328  can be performed using density-based clustering techniques, in some examples. Event  302  can be associated with a first cluster identifier  330 , and event  304  can be associated with a second cluster identifier  332 . Further details of examples of HDBSCAN are discussed herein with reference to paras. [0148]ff. 
     At  334 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the first event  302  is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the first cluster identifier  330  matching the second cluster identifier  332 , i.e., that first event  302  is in the same cluster as dirty second event  304 . For example, security subsystem  250  can determine that any event clustered with a dirty event (e.g., event  304 ) is associated with a security violation. 
     In various illustrative examples, referring to  FIG. 3  for context, without limitation, 300-element event vectors  316 ,  318  can be used. The representation mapping  320  can be a PV-DM doc2vec mapping. Representation mapping  320  can be trained periodically, e.g., daily, weekly, or monthly. The doc2vec representation mapping  320  can be initially trained (before locking the parameters) on a corpus including command-line texts  310 ,  312  for both dirty events and clean events. The corpus can additionally or alternatively include command-line texts  310 ,  312  for multiple events, each of which has a classification  116  selected from among N classifications, N&gt;2. Representation mapping  320  can be trained using 5, 10, 15, 20, or another number of iterations. Representation mapping  320  can be trained on all the terms in a command-line text  310 ,  312 , or on only the first T terms of each command-line text  310 ,  312 , e.g., T=200, T=300, or T=400. In some examples, each command-line text  310 ,  312  includes multiple command lines, e.g., two, three, or more than three. In some of these examples, only the first T terms of each individual command line can be used. For example, up to 900 terms can be used from command-line text  310 : up to 300 each for a first (e.g., grandparent-process), second (e.g., parent-process), and third (e.g., child-process) command line in command-line text  310 . The number of terms used from each command line can differ, e.g., T 1  terms from a grandparent-process command line and T 2 ≠T 1  terms from a parent-process command line. In various illustrative examples, representation mapping  320  comprises an x2vec (e.g., doc2vec) mapping, operation  322  uses t-SNE, and operation  328  uses HDBSCAN. In some examples, the size of each event vector  316 ,  318  equals T, or is different from T (e.g., &lt;T or &gt;T). 
     In some examples, input data can be deduplicated before it is used for doc2vec training. For example, any particular command-line text  310 ,  312  can be included exactly once in the training data set. In some examples using command-line texts  310 ,  312  not classified as either clean or dirty (“unknown” classification), any particular command-line text  310 ,  312  can be included exactly once for each monitored computing device  104  on which it was detected. 
     In some examples, operation  322  can include using t-SNE. For datasets of &lt;E events (e.g., E=400e3, 500e3, or 600e3), 2000 iterations can be used with perplexity 50. For datasets of ≥E events, 1500 iterations can be used with perplexity 1000. In some examples, operation  328  can include clustering using HDBSCAN with a minimum cluster size of five and a minimum sample count of five (or, likewise, 10 for each, or 15). 
       FIG. 4  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  400  for analyzing events and interfacing between monitored computing devices  104  and cluster  106  (or another security service), and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  400  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  402  can be followed by operation  314 ; operation  314  can include operations  406  and  414  (or  406 - 414 ); operation  334  can include operation  418 ; or operation  334  can be followed by operation  422 . 
     At  402 , the communications module  232  can receive event data  404  from the monitored computing device  104  via a network  108 . Event data  404  can represent an event  126 ,  302 , e.g., detected at monitored computing device  104  (e.g., “process started”) or indicating activity at monitored computing device  104  (e.g., “process having parent and grandparent started”). Event data  404  can include at least some of the command-line record  306  associated with event  302 , e.g., at least some of command-line text  310 . Event data  404  can be, include, or be a portion of an event record  112  associated with event  302 . 
     At  406 , the representation subsystem  244  can extract at least two terms  408  from the respective command-line record  306  associated with the first event  302 . In some nonlimiting examples, operation  406  can include extracting the at least two terms  408  at least partly by performing at least one of, e.g., both of, operations  412  and  410 . Some examples extract at least n terms, e.g., n=3, n=4, or n&gt;4. Some examples “tokenize” the command-line text  310 , e.g., determine the terms  408  or separate adjacent terms  408 , using a tokenizer. Example tokenizers can include strtok(3), lex(1), or flex(1); one or more regular expressions; or a context-free or context-sensitive grammar (e.g., LL(k), LR(k), or LALR(k), k≥0). 
     Some examples include extracting, from a first command line of the at least two command lines in command-line text  310 ,  312 , a contiguous sequence of punctuation characters as a first term of the at least two terms  408 . Some examples further include extracting, from the first command line, a contiguous sequence of non-punctuation characters as a second term of the at least two terms  408 . For example, the command line ‘cmd.exe /c “echo  31337”’ can yield the terms qw{cmd . exe / c “echo 31337”}. 
     For example, at  410 , the representation subsystem  244  can extract, from the first command line, a contiguous sequence of non-punctuation characters (e.g., qr{\w+}) as a first term of the at least two terms  408 . In some examples, non-punctuation characters are those matching a predetermined regular expression (e.g., qr{[A-Za-z0-9]}, qr{\w}, or qr{[[:alnum:]]}). 
     At  412 , the representation subsystem  244  can extract, from a first command line of the at least two command lines, a contiguous sequence of punctuation characters (e.g., qr{\W+}) as a second term of the at least two terms  408 . In some examples, punctuation characters are those not matching the predetermined regular expression noted above with reference to operation  410 . In some examples, a whitespace character (e.g., matching qr{\s} or qr{[[:space:]]}) is neither a punctuation character nor a non-punctuation character. In some examples, whitespace is disregarded except that it separates adjacent terms of the at least two terms  408 . For example, terms can be sequences in the command-line text  310  matching qr{\w+|[{circumflex over ( )}\w\s]+}. 
     In some examples, terms  408  are extracted from each command line of the at least two command lines separately, e.g., by mapping a regex sequentially against each command line rather than once against the concatenation of command lines. In this way, a grandparent command line ending “ . . . --oo” and a parent command line beginning “ps . . . ” will not result in the term “oops” being included in the terms  408 . Instead, the terms  408  in this example will include qw{-- oo ps}. 
     In some examples, the representation subsystem  244  can store terms  408  in order of occurrence in the command-line text  310 , or can otherwise retain information about the relative order of the terms  408 . This can permit analyzing behavior over sequences of command lines or individual operations, which can permit more effectively determining whether an event is associated with a security violation. For example, the UNIX shell command line “rm -- -rf *”, when executed, will only remove files in the current directory (including one named “-rf”). However, “rm -rf * --” (the “--” double hyphen at the end) will remove files in the current directory and all subdirectories. Retaining term-order information permits distinguishing these command-lines from each other. Retaining term-order information also permits using prediction of following terms as the training task for PV-DM and similar x2vec models. 
     In some examples, stemming is performed on the command-line text  310  before or after extracting terms  408 . In some examples, stemming is not performed on the command-line text  310  before or after extracting terms  408 . In some examples, stopwords are not extracted as terms  408 . In some examples, no stopword test is applied. In some examples, neither stemming nor stopword-detection is used while extracting terms  408 . 
     In some examples, terms  408  are determined for at least one command line instead of or in addition to for at least two command lines. For example, terms  408  can be extracted from only the first-process command line, or from only the first-process command line and the second-process command line. 
     At  414 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine the respective event vector  316  for the first event  302  based at least in part on the at least two respective terms  408 . For example, the representation subsystem  244  can train a partially-locked doc2vec model to predict relationships between at least some of the terms  408  based at least in part on the event vector  316 , e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operation  314 . Additionally or alternatively, the representation subsystem  244  can retrain a new model (e.g., a doc2vec model), as discussed above, and extract the event vector from the retrained model. In some examples, successive training batches can use randomly-selected ones of the terms  408  in the training. 
     In some examples, operation  414  can include mapping the text of the terms to a one-hot or other encoding, e.g., using a term corpus such as that described herein with reference to training module  226 . In some examples, the representation subsystem  244  can determine, for any extracted term not found in the representation mapping  320  or term corpus, or otherwise not mappable to an encoding, the term representation to be an unknown-term representation (denoted “ ” for clarity). This can reduce noise while retaining the spatial relationships between terms. For example, “ls -l” and “ls l” are very different in operation. If, hypothetically, “-” were not mappable to an encoding, using an unknown-term representation in its place would preserve the fact of the distinction, even if not the specific nature of the distinction (qw{ls   l} vs. qw{ls l}). 
     In some examples, the plurality of events comprises a first cluster  416  of the events. Each event  302 ,  304  in the first cluster  416  is associated with the first cluster identifier  330 . For example, first cluster  416  can be determined based on the cluster identifiers output by operation  328 . In some of these examples, operation  334  includes operation  418 . 
     At  418 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the first event  302  is associated with a security violation further based at least in part on the first cluster  416  of the events satisfying at least one predetermined criterion  420 . For example, criterion  420  can require, e.g., that at least one event  304 , or that at least a predetermined nonzero percentage of the events  126  (e.g., 40%, 50%, or 70%), in first cluster  416  is dirty, or is associated with a specific type of security violation (e.g., malware or targeted activity). Additionally or alternatively, criterion  420  can require that first cluster  416  include a predetermined combination of events  126 . The combination can include, e.g., ≥α% of events  126  associated with malware and ≥β% of events  126  associated with targeted activity (e.g., α=50, β=20; or α=25, β=25). 
     At  422 , the communications module  232  can transmit a security command  424  to the monitored computing device  104  to cause the monitored computing device  104  to perform a mitigation action. Operation  422  can be performed in response to the determining at operation  334  that the first cluster identifier  330  matches the second cluster identifier  332 , or to another determination that the event  302  is associated with a security violation. 
     In some examples, e.g., in response to receipt of the security command  424 , the mitigation module  234  running at the monitored computing device  104  can perform mitigation actions. Examples of mitigation actions are described herein with reference to  FIG. 2 . Accordingly, in some examples, operations  402 ,  314 - 334 , and  422  can be used together to automatically detect and mitigate malicious behavior at a monitored computing device  104 . 
     In some examples, the security command  424  can request or direct a particular mitigation action. In at least one example, if first cluster  416  is associated with stored data (e.g., in cluster  106 ) indicating that more data is required or that first cluster  416  is a honeypot (e.g., if all or substantially all of the events in first cluster  416  are associated with honeypot computing devices  104 ), security command  424  can direct increased data monitoring and reporting at monitored computing devices  104  associated with events in first cluster  416 ; if not, security command  424  can direct killing of processes or quarantining of files at monitored computing devices  104  associated with events in first cluster  416 . 
       FIG. 5  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  500  for performing security analysis of events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  500  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . 
     At  502 , the communications module  232  can receive, via a communications interface  236 , a plurality of command-line records  504  associated with respective events  506  of a plurality of events. Command-line records  504  can represent command-line records  306 ,  308  or other command-line data carried in event records  112 ,  240  or other event data  404 . Events  506  can represent events  126 ,  302 ,  304 . Each of the command-line records  504  is associated with a corresponding monitored computing device  104  of a plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . Each command-line record  504  can be associated with a respective, different computing device  104 , or at least two command-line records  504  can be associated with a single computing device  104 . The respective command-line record  504  for each event  506  can include at least two command lines  508  associated with that event  506 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIG. 1 , communications interface  236 , and operation  402 . 
     At  510 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine a plurality of event vectors  512  based at least in part on a trained representation mapping  514  (which can represent trained representation mapping  222 ,  320 ) and on respective command-line records  504  of the plurality of command-line records  504 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  314  and  406 - 414 . 
     At  516 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the events  506  (e.g., the representations of those events  506  in respective command-line records  504  or other event records  112 ) of the plurality of events  506  based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors  512  to assign each event  506  to a cluster of a plurality  518  of clusters. The plurality  518  of clusters can include a first cluster  520 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  328 . 
     At  522 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the first cluster  520  comprises at least a first group  524  of events  506  associated with a first classification  526  and a second group  528  of events  506  associated with a second, different classification  530 , the second group  528  being smaller than (i.e., having fewer events  506  than) the first group  524 . For example, the security subsystem  250  can divide the first cluster  520  by classification and select two of the resulting groups (e.g., the two largest, or the largest and the smallest) as the groups  524  and  528 . Example divisions by classification can include, e.g., dirty vs. clean; malware vs. targeted; malware vs. clean; targeted vs. clean; classified vs. unclassified; or any particular classification (e.g., clean, dirty, malware, or targeted) vs. unclassified. 
     In some examples, the number of events in the first group  524  can exceed the number of events in the second group  528 . In some examples, first group  524  includes all of, or at least half of, the events  506  in the first cluster  520  that are associated with the first classification  526 . In some examples, second group  528  includes all of, or at least half of, the events  506  in the first cluster  520  that are associated with the second classification  530 . In some examples, second group  528  includes exactly, or at most, one, two, five, ten, or twenty events. 
     At  532 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the first cluster  520  satisfies a predetermined criterion  534  based at least in part on at least: the number of events  506  in the first group  524  of events  506 ; or the number of events  506  in the second group  528  of events  506 . The criterion  534  can require, e.g., predetermined numbers or percentages of events in groups  524 ,  528 . For example, the criterion  534  can require that the first group  524  include &gt;α% of the events  506  in first cluster  520  (e.g., α=50, 75, or 90). Additionally or alternatively, the criterion  534  can require that the second group  528  include &lt;α% of the events  506  in first cluster  520 . 
     In an example, α&gt;50, the first group  524  includes dirty events  506 , and the second group  528  includes events  506  not known to be either clean or dirty. The security subsystem  250  can determine that the events  506  in the second group  528  are dirty based on their membership in the first cluster  520 , in which the majority of the events  506  are dirty. This can permit more readily detecting dirty events  506 , without requiring further and possibly more time- or resource-consuming analysis. Additionally or alternatively, the security subsystem  250  can prioritize events  506  in the second group  528  for further analysis, e.g., by adding those events  506  to the front of a processing queue, to permit more rapidly responding to those events  506  if they are determined by that further analysis to be dirty. 
     In another example, α&gt;50, the first group  524  includes dirty events  506 , and the second group  528  includes events  506  determined to be clean. The security subsystem  250  can determine that the events  506  in the second group  528  should be re-evaluated based on their membership in the first cluster  520 , in which the majority of the events  506  are dirty. This can reduce the occurrence of false misses. In some of these examples, β&lt;50, or β&lt;10. 
     In various examples, e.g., as discussed herein with reference to criterion  420 , criterion  534  can require that first cluster  416  include a predetermined combination of events  126 . The combination can include, e.g., ≥α% of events  126  associated with malware and ≥β% of events  126  associated with targeted activity (e.g., α=50, β=20; or α=25, β=25). 
     At  536 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can, in response to the determining that the first cluster  520  satisfies the predetermined criterion  534 , provide an indication  538 , via the communications interface  236 , of a first event  540 . First event  540  can be an event  506  included in (e.g., represented by data clustered in) the second group  528  of events  506 . Indication  540  can represent at least a portion of classification  116 , result record  124 , output  242 , or security command  424 . In some examples, operation  536  can include transmitting data via the communications interface  236  to cause updating (“tagging”) of event record(s)  112  associated with first event  540 , e.g., to include a tag or other data of the indication  538 . 
     Additionally or alternatively, at operation  536 , the interface module  230  can present a visual indication  538  of the first event  540  via display  204 , or the communications module  232  can transmit the indication  538  representing first event  540  via network  108 . In some examples, the indication  538  includes a code interpretable by a Web browser (e.g., HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, or WebGL code) to present a visual representation of first event  540  via the Web browser. In some examples, the indication  538  includes data (e.g., a coordinate vector, discussed below with reference to  FIGS. 9-14 ) usable by a program running in a Web browser to present a visual representation of first event  540 . 
     Some examples permit correlating activity across multiple monitored computing devices  104 . For example, the plurality of command-line records  504  can include a first command-line record associated with a first monitored computing device  104  (e.g.,  104 ( 1 )) of the plurality of monitored computing devices  104 , and a second command-line record associated with a second, different monitored computing device  104  (e.g.,  104 ( 2 )) of the plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . Clustering and analyzing events  506  occurring at multiple computing devices  104  can permit detecting large-scale breaches or other contemporaneous attacks on multiple computing devices  104 . 
       FIG. 6  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  600  for analyzing events and interfacing between monitored computing devices  104  and cluster  106  (or another security service), and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  600  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  602  can precede operation  510 ; operation  510  can include operation  608 ; operation  516  can include or be preceded by operation  610 ; operation  516  can include operation  614 ; or operation  536  can include operation  616 . 
     At  602 , the communication module  232  can receive, via the communications interface  236 , a first command-line record  604  of the plurality of command-line records  504 . The first command-line record  604  can be associated with the first event  540 . The communication module  232  can also receive an indication  606  that the first event  540  is clean or otherwise benign. 
     At  608 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine each event vector  512  having a first number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIGS. 3-5 . For example, the first number of elements can be 300. 
     At  610 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine a respective reduced event vector  612  for each of the event vectors  512 . Each reduced event vector  612  can have a second number of elements, and the second number of elements can be smaller than the first number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  322  and reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 . For example, operation  610  can include determining the reduced event vectors  612  at least partly by determining a t-SNE embedding of the event vectors  512  in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements. 
     At  614 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the reduced event vectors  612  to assign each reduced event vector  612 , and its respective event  506 , to a corresponding cluster of the plurality  518  of clusters. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  328 . For example, operation  614  can include clustering the reduced event vectors  612  using HDBSCAN. 
     In some examples using operation  602 , indication  606  marks first event  540  as clean. However, operations  510 - 532  may result in an indication that first event  540  is dirty. For example, first event  540  may cluster together with a large group of dirty events  506  in first cluster  520 . This can indicate that indication  606  may be a false miss. Accordingly, in these and some other examples, operation  536  can include operation  616 . 
     At  616 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can provide the indication  538  that the first event  540  is associated with a security violation (dirty). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to classification  116 , result record(s)  124 , output  242 , operation  422 , security command  424 , operation  536 , or indication  538 . Operations  602  and  616  can permit detecting and reporting false misses, which can increase the robustness of security solutions using these operations. 
       FIG. 7  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  700  for performing security analyses of sessions based on events associated with those sessions, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  700  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . 
     At  702 , the communications module  232  can receive, via a communications interface  236 , a plurality of command-line records  704  (which can represent command-line records  504 ). Each command-line record  704  can represent a respective event  706  (which can represent event  126 ,  302 ,  304 , or  506 ) of a plurality  708  of events. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  402  and  502 . 
     Each event  706  of the plurality  708  of events can be associated with a corresponding monitored computing device  104 . Each event  706  can also be associated with a corresponding session  710  at the corresponding monitored computing device  104 . Shown are N sessions  710 ( 1 )- 710 (N) (individually or collectively referred to with reference  710 ), N≥1. In the illustrated example, events  706 ( i ), 1≤i≤I, are part of session  710 ( 1 ), for some I≥1, and events  706 ( j ), M≤j≤M+J−1, are part of session  710 (N), for some M&gt;I and J≥1. Events are individually or collectively referred to with reference  706 . For brevity, the subscript “(k)” throughout the discussion of  FIGS. 7-14  refers to data associated with event  706 ( k ), 1≤k≤M+J−1 (or other bounds appropriate to the particular figure being discussed). 
     A session can include a local or remote login session, e.g., a login at a physical console of monitored computing device  104  or a login via RDP, XENDESKTOP, or other virtualization or remote-login tools. A session is associated with at least one process running on computing device  104 , generally a user&#39;s text or graphical shell (e.g., bash or WINDOWS Explorer). Processes launched by that shell are also generally associated with the session (although system services or daemons may not always be). 
     In some examples, a session includes at least one daemon or other process that was spawned by a process in the session and later invoked setsid(2) or another routine to create a new OS session. For example, a first session  710 ( 1 ) can include a non-daemon process and a daemon (or system-service) process. The non-daemon process can be the process that spawned the daemon process. 
     In some examples, a session is identified by a (device ID, device-specific session ID) tuple. The device ID can be a unique identifier of computing device  104 , e.g., a machine GUID or a hash of details of computing device  104 . The device-specific session ID can be a unique identifier associated with the shell or other process that is the session leader (e.g., the first process launched within a session, or a process that called setsid(2) to become a session leader) or that created the session (e.g., the PID of a getty(8), login(1), or other system process that started the new session). In some examples, the device-specific session ID is unique among sessions on a particular computing device  104 , but may not be unique across computing devices  104 . In some other examples, the device-specific session ID is unique across computing devices  104 . In some of these latter examples, a session is identified exclusively by a device-specific session ID. In some examples, the device-specific session ID is determine based at least in part on a timestamp (e.g., of session creation), e.g., by seeding a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) using the timestamp or by including the timestamp as part of the input to a hash function that outputs a device-specific session ID. 
     In some examples, a session is identified by a (device ID, account ID, device/user-specific session ID) tuple. The device ID can be as described above. The account ID can be, e.g., a WINDOWS security identifier (SID), a numeric user ID, an X.500 or other globally-unique identifier of the user, a hash of any of those, or another identifier of the user whose credentials were used to log in and establish the session. The device/user-specific session ID can be, e.g., a locally unique identifier (LUID) that is assigned to the particular session that the access token represents. In some examples, the device/user-specific session ID can distinguish among sessions by a particular user at a particular computing device  104 , e.g., sessions at different times, or concurrent sessions. In some examples, multiple device/user-specific session IDs can represent a single session, and techniques  700  can include maintaining and using a LUT to correlate the device/user-specific session IDs for a particular session with each other. 
     Each event  706 ( k ) of the plurality of events can be associated with a respective command-line record  704 ( k ). The respective command-line record  704 ( k ) for each event  706 ( k ) can include at least two command lines  712 ( k ) associated with that event  706 ( k ). For example, each event  706 ( k ) can be associated with a respective process that has a respective ancestor process. Each command-line record  704 ( k ) can include a respective first command line (of command lines  712 ( k )) associated with the process and a respective second command line (of command lines  712 ( k )) associated with the ancestor process. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to command-line records  306 ,  308 ,  504 , command-line text  310 ,  312 , and command lines  508 . 
     In some examples, each event  706 ( k ) is associated with a respective classification  714 ( k ) (individually or collectively referred to with reference  714 ) (e.g., “unknown,” “dirty,” “clean”, “dirty.malware,” or “dirty.targeted”). Classifications  714  can represent classification  116 . In some examples, classifications  714  can be received by communications module  232  as part of event records  112 ,  240  or other event data  404 , or can be retrieved from a database. In some examples, the events  706  can all be associated with a single monitored computing device  104 , or at least two of the events  706  can be associated with respective, different monitored computing devices  104 . 
     In some examples, each command-line record  704 ( k ) can include an identifier (e.g., hostname, network address, serial number, or other unique ID) of the corresponding monitored computing device  104 , and an identifier (e.g., GUID or other session ID described above) of the corresponding session  710 . In some examples, the identifier of the corresponding session  710  is unique among sessions  710  by a particular user on that particular monitored computing device  104 , among sessions  710  on that particular monitored computing device  104 , or across computing devices  104 . 
     At  716 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine a plurality of event vectors  718 ( k ) (e.g., one per event  706 ( k )) using a stored representation mapping  720  (which can represent trained representation mapping  222 ,  320 ,  514 ) and based at least in part on respective command-line records  704 ( k ) of the plurality of command-line records. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  314 ,  406 - 414 , and  510 , and event vectors  316 ,  318 ,  512 . For example, each event  706 ( k ) can be associated with a respective event vector  718 ( k ). Each event vector  718 ( k ) can have a first number of elements, in some examples (e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operation  608 ). 
     At  722 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the events  706  of the plurality of events based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors  718  to assign each event  706 ( k ) to a cluster  724 ( c ) of a plurality of clusters, 1≤c≤C (graphically represented as triangles). The plurality of clusters can include a first subset  726  (proper subset or otherwise) of the clusters  724 , e.g., clusters  724 ( d ) for D≤d≤C, D≥1 (in the illustrated example, D=C−2). Each cluster  724 ( d ) of the first subset  726  can include (e.g., include data of, or otherwise represent) at least one event  706 ( i ) that is associated with first session  710 ( 1 ). The at least one event  706 ( i ) in each of the clusters  724 ( d ) can be events  706  of the plurality of events. 
     At  728 , the security subsystem  250  can determine, for each (or, in some examples, at least one) cluster  724 ( d ) in the first subset  726  of the plurality of clusters, whether that cluster  724 ( d ) is associated with a security violation. The security subsystem  250  can make this determination based at least in part on at least some of the classifications  714 ( k ) of the events  706 ( k ) included in (e.g., represented by event vectors  718 ( k ) clustered into) that cluster  724 ( d ). For example, the security subsystem  250  can determine that a cluster  724 ( d ) is dirty if at least a predetermined percentage (e.g., 40%, 50%, or 70%) of the events  706 ( k ) in that cluster  724 ( d ) are dirty. 
     Operation  728  can include using any of the techniques described herein (e.g., with reference to  FIGS. 2-6 ) for determining whether a cluster is dirty. In some examples, operation  728  can include determining that a first cluster  724 ( d ) of the plurality of clusters is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the respective classifications  714 ( i ) of at least some of the events  706 ( i ) in the first cluster  724 ( d ) satisfying a second predetermined criterion (e.g., criterion  420  or  534 ) different from a predetermined criterion  730 , discussed below. 
     At  732 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the first session  710 ( 1 ) is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the first subset  726  of the plurality of clusters satisfying the predetermined criterion  730 . For example, criterion  730  can require that at least a predetermined percentage (e.g., 40%, 50%, or 70%) of the clusters  724 ( d ) in the first subset  726  be dirty. 
     In various examples, techniques  700  permit determining that a session  710 ( 1 ) is dirty based on clustered events  706 ( i ). This can permit locating a dirty session  710 ( 1 ) without requiring analysis of all collected events of plurality  708 , which can reduce the time and resource requirements of security analysis of session  710 ( 1 ). 
     In a nonlimiting example, the predetermined criterion  730  is satisfied by at least a predetermined percentage (e.g., ≥30%, ≥40%, ≥50%, or ≥70%) of the clusters  724 ( d ) in the first subset  726  of the plurality of clusters being associated with a security violation. In some examples, the second predetermined criterion is satisfied by at least a second predetermined percentage (e.g., ≥30%, ≥40%, ≥50%, or ≥70%) of the events  706 ( i ) in the first cluster  724 ( d ) being associated with a security violation. 
     In some examples, the overall balance of events across clusters in the first session  710 ( 1 ) can be tested. For example, security subsystem  250  can determine that session  710 ( 1 ) is dirty if at least a predetermined percentage (e.g., ≥30%, ≥40%, ≥50%, or ≥70%) of the events  706 ( i ) in the first session  710 ( 1 ) are dirty. 
     In some examples, the clustering subsystem  248  or the security subsystem  250  can identify or determine, at or before operation  728 , the first subset  726  of the plurality of clusters  724 . For example, the first subset  726  can be determine to include every cluster having at least one event associated with first session  710 ( 1 ), or at least n events, n&gt;1, or at least a predetermined percentage (e.g., &gt;40%, &gt;50%, or 100%) of the events in the cluster under consideration. 
       FIG. 8  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  800  for analyzing events or sessions and interfacing between monitored computing devices  104  and cluster  106  (or another security service), and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  800  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  722  can include or be preceded by operation  802 ; operation  722  can include operation  806 ; operation  728  can be followed by operation  810 ; operation  808  can precede operation  810 ; operation  732  can be followed by operation  812 ; or operation  732  can be followed by operation  816 . 
     At  802 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine respective reduced event vectors  804 ( k ) for each of the plurality of event vectors  718 ( k ). Each of the reduced event vectors  804 ( k ) can have a second number of elements less than the first number of elements. Operation  802  can include determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) or other embedding of the event vectors  718  in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610  and reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ,  612 . 
     At  806 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the events  706 ( k ) at least partly by clustering the reduced event vectors  804 ( k ) using HDBSCAN or another clustering technique. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  614 . 
     In some examples, a determination that a session  710  is dirty can permit determining that one or more (e.g., all) clusters  724 ( c ) associated with that session  710  are dirty. Some of these examples use operations  808  and  810 . 
     At  808 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that a second cluster  724 ( 2 ) of the plurality of clusters includes an event  706  associated with the first session  710 ( 1 ). The first subset  726  of the plurality of clusters can exclude the second cluster  724 ( 2 ). For example, the first subset  726  may not include every cluster  724 ( c ) that contains an event from first session  710 ( 1 ). Additionally or alternatively, operation  808  may be performed at a time later than the determination of first subset  726 . Additional data of events of plurality  708  associated with first session  710 ( 1 ) may have become available between a time at which first subset  726  was determined and a time at which operation  808  is performed (e.g., data of events  706 ( l ), l&gt;M+J−1, that occurred after the time of determination of first subset  726 ). Those events may be clustered into second cluster  724 ( 2 ) or other clusters not included in first subset  726 . 
     At  810 , security subsystem  250  can determine that the second cluster  724 ( 2 ) is associated with a security violation. This determination can be made in response to the determining at operation  728  that the first session  710 ( 1 ) is associated with a security violation and to the determining at operation  808  that the second cluster  724 ( 2 ) of the plurality of clusters includes an event  706  associated with the first session  710 ( 1 ). The determination at operation  810  can permit readily classifying new events  706  or clusters  724  associated with a dirty session, which can in turn permit responding more quickly to targeted activity or other threats. 
     At  812 , communications module  232  can transmit a security command  814  to the monitored computing device  104  that is associated with the first session  710 ( 1 ) to cause the monitored computing device  104  to perform a mitigation action. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to classification  116 , result record(s)  124 , mitigation module  234 , output  242 , operation  422 , security command  424 , operation  536 , indication  538 , or operation  616 . Operation  812  can be performed, e.g., in response to the determination at operation  732  that the first session  710 ( 1 ) is associated with a security violation. 
     At  816 , communications module  232  can transmit an indication  818  of a non-classified event  706 ( k ) in first session  710 ( 1 ). The non-classified event  706 ( k ) can be an event that has not yet been assigned to a classification  116  of “clean” or “dirty” (e.g., has no classification  116 , or has a classification  116  of “unknown”). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  536 . This can cause non-classified event  706 ( k ) to be added to the front of an analysis queue, or otherwise prioritized for analysis. This can, in turn, reduce the time required to detect and respond to targeted activity. 
       FIG. 9  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  900  for performing security analyses of events and providing access via a user interface to those events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  900  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . 
     At  902 , the communications module  232  can receive, via a communications interface  236 , a plurality of command-line records  904  associated with respective events  906 ( 1 )- 906 (K) (individually or collectively referred to with reference  906 ) of a plurality  908  of events. Each of the command-line records  904  is associated with a corresponding monitored computing device  104  of a plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . The respective command-line record  904 ( k ) for each event  906 ( k ) comprises at least two command lines  910 ( k ) associated with that event. The notation “(k)” is as used in  FIG. 7 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  402 ,  502 , and  702 , command-line records  306 ,  308 ,  504 , and  704 , events  706  of plurality  708  of events, command-line text  310 ,  312 , and command lines  508 ,  712 . 
     At  912 , the representation subsystem  244  can determine a plurality of event vectors  914  based at least in part on a trained representation mapping  916  (e.g., an x2vec mapping) and on respective command-line records  904  of the plurality of command-line records. Each event vector  914  can have a first number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  314 ,  406 - 414 ,  510 ,  608 , and  716 , and event vectors  316 ,  318 ,  512 ,  718 . 
     At  918 , the reduction subsystem  246 , the clustering subsystem  248 , or another component of operation module  228 , or the interface module  230 , can determine, for each of the plurality of event vectors  914 , a respective coordinate vector  920  having a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements. Operation  918  can include one or more reduction (e.g., t-SNE), clustering (e.g., HDBSCAN), or projection (e.g., 3D→2D) operations, in any order. In some examples, projection can be performed using model-view-projection matrices determined, e.g., by the position of a virtual camera in a virtual 3D space. The camera position, orientation (e.g., up, right, or look-at vectors), or field of view can be determined in response to user inputs, e.g., via an interface implemented using WebGL, OPENGL, or other graphics APIs. In some examples, the coordinate vectors  920  represent reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ,  612 , or  804 ( k ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610 , or  802 . 
     At  922 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can present, via an electronic display  204 , respective representations  924  of at least some events  906  of the plurality of events at (e.g., at display coordinates determined based at least in part on) the respective coordinate vectors  920 . In some examples, operation  922  can include determining the representations  924  (e.g., determining a color, shape, or size of a representation  924 , e.g., based on its coordinate vector  920 ). In some examples, operation  922  can include receiving the representations  924  (e.g., sprites, billboards, or other artwork) and presenting them at display positions determined by the coordinate vectors  920 . In some examples, operation  922  can include receiving artwork or other base data and modifying the base data, e.g., depending on the coordinate vector  920  (e.g., shrinking, darkening, or desaturating representations  924  as their respective coordinate vectors  920  are farther from an eye point of a 3D projection on display  204 ). 
     In some examples, operation  918  includes determining 3D coordinates (the second number of elements is three), and operation  922  includes projecting the 3D coordinates to 2D coordinates for display on a 2D display. In some examples, operation  918  includes determining 3D coordinates and projecting the 3D coordinates down to 2D coordinates (the second number of elements is two). In some examples, operation  918  includes determining 3D coordinates (the second number of elements is three), and operation  922  includes presenting the representations  924  in 3D space, e.g., using a stereoscopic (e.g., lenticular or dual-screen head-mounted), holographic, or volumetric (e.g., dual-laser upconversion) display. 
     At  926 , the interface module  230  can receive, via UI  202 , a selection  928  of a first representation  924 ( 1 ) of the respective representations  924 . The first representation  924 ( 1 ) can be associated with a first event  906 ( 1 ). For example, selection  928  can include a click or button-press event associated with a position within a bounding region (e.g., box) of representation  924 ( 1 ), a box-drag or corner-click event or event sequence that produces a box wholly (or partly, in some examples) enclosing the bounding region of representation  924 ( 1 ), or a lasso-drag or vertex-click event or event sequence that produces a region (e.g., a freehand region or a polygon) wholly (or partly) enclosing the bounding region of representation  924 ( 1 ). In some examples using clusters, e.g., as in the following discussion of operation  930 , the selection  928  can indicate a cluster  932 . 
     At  930 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the events  906  of the plurality  908  of events based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors  914  to assign each event  906 ( k ) to a cluster  932 ( c ) of a plurality of clusters  932 ( 1 )- 932 (C) (individually or collectively referred to with reference  932 ). The plurality of clusters can include a first cluster  932 (C). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  516 ,  614 ,  722 , or  806 . Operation  930  can include clustering the event vectors  914  or the coordinate vectors  920  (e.g., reduced event vectors  804 ( k )). 
     Operation  930  can include producing a cluster map from events  906  to clusters  932 , e.g., a LUT, an event map from clusters  932  to events  906 , e.g., a LUT, or both. A cluster map or event map can be unidirectional or bidirectional. For example, operation  930  can include producing a bidirectional event map between clusters  932  and events  906 , e.g., an assignment matrix with rows for clusters  932  and columns for events  906 . 
     In some examples, operation  922  includes presenting a bounding region (e.g., bounding box or polygon) over or in association with representation  924 ( 1 ). For example, operation  922  can be performed after operation  930 , and can include presenting a bounding region of first cluster  932 (C) (which includes representation  924 ( 1 ) of first event  906 ( 1 )) on the display  204 . The bounding region can be presented, e.g., in response to a mouse-enter or -hover event with respect to the bounding region. The bounding region can be defined in 3D or 2D space. In some examples, operation  926  can include receiving a click, drag-around, drag-across, or other event indicating selection of the bounding region. This can permit selecting an entire cluster  932 ( c ) for tagging (operation  940 ) more rapidly, and with reduced error, compared to some prior schemes such as selecting each representation  924 ( i ) individually. 
     In some examples, each representation  924 ( k ) includes a point, circle, or other geometric shape representing the corresponding event  906 ( k ). In some examples, each representation  924 ( k ) has a color associated with (e.g., indicating) the cluster  932 ( c ) into which the corresponding event  906 ( k ) has been clustered. 
     At  934 , the interface module  230  can determine a first cluster (in the depicted example, cluster  932 (C)) of the plurality of clusters  932  based at least in part on the selection  928 . The first cluster  932 (C) can include the first event  906 ( 1 ). For example, the interface module  230  can perform a forward lookup in a cluster map or a reverse lookup in an event map (operation  930 ). 
     At  936 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can receive, via the UI  202 , an indication of a tag  938 . In some examples not shown, operation  936  is performed before or concurrently with operation  926 . Tag  938  can include data indicating a classification  116 , output  242 , indication  538 , classification  714 , or other information to be associated with first event  906 ( 1 ) or first cluster  932 (C). Examples of tag  938  can include data indicating “unknown,” “dirty,” “clean,” “to be analyzed,” or other tags or classifications described herein with reference to, e.g.,  FIGS. 1 and 7 . 
     In some examples, operation  936  can include receiving a button-press event from a UI control, e.g., a button, associated with the tag  938 ; a selection of tag  938  from a set of choices presented via a radio-button or list-view control; a keypress associated with tag  938  (e.g., Ctrl+Enter to tag “Resolved”); or a click event for which buttons or modifiers indicate tag  938  (e.g., left-click for tag “dirty,” right-click for tag “clean”, or left-click for tag “dirty,” Shift+left-click for tag “clean”). 
     In some examples, operations  926  and  936  are mutually independent: neither requires as input an output of the other. Therefore, operations  926  and  936  in these examples (and, likewise, other mutually independent sets of operations described herein) can be performed in either order, in parallel, or at least partly overlapping in time, in various examples. Similarly, operation  930  is mutually independent of operation  918 , or of each of operations  918 ,  922 ,  926 , and  936 , in some examples. 
     At  940 , the security subsystem  250  or interface module  230  can associate each event  906  of the first cluster  932 (C) (determined at operation  934 ) of events with the tag  938  (a “tagging” operation). For example, event records  112  associated with the event  906  of the first cluster  932 (C) can be modified or updated to include data of the tag  938 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to  FIG. 1  or operation  536 . 
       FIG. 10  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  1000  for analyzing events and interfacing between monitored computing devices  104  and cluster  106  (or another security service), and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  1000  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  912  can be followed by operation  1002 ; operation  930  can be preceded by or include operation  1002 ; operation  930  can include operation  1006 ; operation  918  can include operation  1008 ; operation  922  can include operation  1012 ; operation  936  can be followed by operation  1016 ; operation  940  can be followed by operation  1016 ; or operation  940  can be followed by operation  1020 . 
     At  1002 , reduction subsystem  246  can determine a respective reduced event vector  1004 ( k ) for each of the respective event vectors  914 ( k ). Each reduced event vector  1004 ( k ) can have a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements in the event vectors  914 ( k ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610 ,  802  and reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ,  612 ,  804 . For example, operation  1002  can include determining the reduced event vectors  1004  at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) of the event vectors  914  in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements. Operation  1002  can precede (as shown) or be part of operation  930 . 
     At  1006 , clustering subsystem  248  can cluster the reduced event vectors  1004  to assign each reduced event vector  1004 ( k ), and its respective event  906 ( k ), to a corresponding cluster  932 ( c ) of the plurality of clusters  932 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  614 ,  806 . For example, operation  1006  can include clustering the reduced event vectors using HDBSCAN. 
     In some examples using operation  1002 , operation  918  includes operation  1008 . In some of these examples, the third number of elements (in reduced event vectors  1004 ) is greater than the second number of elements (in coordinate vectors  920 ). 
     At  1008 , the reduction subsystem  246  or other component of operation module  228 , or the interface module  230 , can determine the coordinate vectors  920  based at least in part on the reduced event vectors  1004 . For example, each coordinate vector  920 ( k ) can be determined by copying the respective reduced event vector  1004 ( k ), or by projecting the respective reduced event vector  1004 ( k ) into a lower-dimensional space (e.g., 3D→2D). 
     In some examples, operation  918  includes reducing directly from event vectors  914  (e.g., having 300 elements) to produce coordinate vectors  920 , e.g., using t-SNE. In some of these examples, operation  930  includes clustering the event vectors  914  to determine the clusters  932 . This can permit taking into account the full contents of event vectors  914  when processing. 
     In some other examples, operation  1008  includes reducing from already-reduced event vectors  1004  (e.g., having 100 elements) to produce coordinate vectors  920 . In some of these examples, operation  1006  includes clustering the reduced event vectors  1004  to determine the clusters  932 . This can reduce the amount of storage and processing resources required to determine coordinate vectors  920  or clusters  932 . 
     The types of examples described in the two preceding paragraphs are applicable throughout this document. Accordingly, any clustering or determination of coordinate vectors described herein can be performed directly from event vectors, or from reduced event vectors. 
     In some examples, at least some of the events  906 ( k ) are associated with respective classifications  1010 ( k ) (which can represent classifications  116 ,  714 ). In some of these examples, operation  922  includes operation  1012 . 
     At  1012 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can present the respective representations  924  of the at least some of the events  906 ( k ) having respective non-positional attributes  1014 ( k ) indicating the respective classifications  1010 ( k ). In some examples, each coordinate vector  920 ( k ) can represent a position of the respective event  906 ( k ) in a feature space defined by the event vectors  914  or reduced event vectors  1004 . Each non-positional attribute  1014 ( k ) can represent an attribute of the respective event  906 ( k ), or a portion of the respective event data, not defined by that feature space. Example attributes include the cluster identifier (e.g., cluster identifier  330 ,  332 , e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operations  328 ,  516 ) of the cluster  932  into which event  906 ( k ) was clustered (operation  930 ); the classification  116  (e.g., dirty vs. clean vs. unknown, or malware vs. targeted vs. unknown) of event  906 ( k ); identification of the monitored computing device  104  with which event  906 ( k ) is associated (e.g., a GUID or other unique identifier); identification of a timestamp of event  906 ( k ) (e.g., brighter or more saturated colors for more recent events  906 ); session ID (described herein with reference to techniques  700 ); or process tree (e.g., the process tree of a session, or a process tree within a session). 
     Example presentations of non-positional attributes  1014  include: one color per discrete value (e.g., cluster identifier, computing-device  104  identifier, or classification  116 ); a ramp of brightness or saturation (e.g., for timestamp); discrete sizes or a ramp of sizes (e.g., larger for more recent); or animation (e.g., moving; rotating; pulsing or otherwise changing in size, brightness or saturation; surrounded or otherwise indicated by a shrinking or expanding ring, halo, or other shape; or blinking or otherwise changing visibility over time). These presentations of non-positional attributes  1014  can additionally or alternatively be used to highlight specific events  906  or groups of events  906 , e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operation  1310 . 
     At  1016 , in response to the tag  938  (received at operation  936 , which may be performed in parallel with operation  926 , as shown) indicating that the first cluster  932 (C) of events is associated with a security violation, communications module  232  can transmit a security command  1018  to a monitored computing device  104  associated with at least one event  906  of the first cluster  932 (C) of events to cause the monitored computing device  104  to perform a mitigation action. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to classification  116 , result record(s)  124 , output  242 , operation  422 , security command  424 , operation  536 , indication  538 , operation  616 , operation  812 , or security command  814 . Operation  1016  can be performed in response to receipt of the tag  938  at operation  936  (e.g., a click on a representation  924 ( k ) indicating the respective event  906 ( k ) is associated with a security violation). Operation  1016  can additionally or alternatively be performed in response to the associating at operation  940 . 
     At  1020 , communications module  232  can send, via the communications interface  236 , an indication  1022  of a second event  906 ( 2 ) in the first cluster  932 (C) of events, the second event  906 ( 2 ) being different from the first event  906 ( 1 ). Operation  1020  can be performed following (as shown) or as part of operation  940 . For example, events  906 ( 1 ) and  906 ( 2 ) may be associated with different monitored computing devices  104 . Operation  1020  can include sending indication  1022  to the monitored computing device  104  associated with event  906 ( 2 ) to alert that computing device  104  to the possibility of a security violation. Operation  1020  can include determining the second event  906 ( 2 ), e.g., via a lookup in the results of the clustering (operation  930 ) to determine events  906 ( k ) that are in the first cluster  932 (C). 
       FIG. 11  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  1100  for performing security analyses of events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  1100  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . 
     At  1102 , the communications module  232  can receive, via communications interface  236 , a plurality of command-line records  1104 ( k ) (“(k)” as in  FIG. 7 ) associated with respective events  1106 ( k ) of a plurality  1108  of events. Each of the events  1106 ( k ) can be associated with a corresponding monitored computing device  104  of a plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  402 ,  502 ,  702 , and  902 , command-line records  306 ,  308 ,  504 ,  704 , and  904 , events  706  of plurality  708  of events, command-line text  310 ,  312 , and command lines  508 ,  712 ,  910 . 
     In some examples, a first command-line record  1104 ( 1 ) of the plurality of command-line records  1104  is associated with a first monitored computing device  104 ( 1 ) of the plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . A second command-line record  1104 ( 2 ) of the plurality of command-line records  1104  is associated with a second monitored computing device  104 ( 2 ) of the plurality of monitored computing devices  104 . Accordingly, some of these examples can permit correlating events  1106  at multiple monitored computing devices  104 . This can permit more readily detecting large-scale attacks such as a targeted attack against an entire organization or significant portion thereof. 
     At  1110 , representation subsystem  244  can determine a plurality of event vectors  1112 ( k ) based at least in part on a trained representation mapping  1114  and on respective command-line records  1104 ( k ) of the plurality of command-line records  1104 . Each event vector  1112 ( k ) can have a first number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  314 ,  406 - 414 ,  510 ,  608 ,  716 ,  912 , and event vectors  316 ,  318 ,  512 ,  718 ,  914 . 
     At  1116 , the reduction subsystem  246 , the clustering subsystem  248 , or another component of operation module  228 , or the interface module  230 , can determine, for each event vector  1112 ( k ) of the plurality of event vectors  1112 , a respective coordinate vector  1118 ( k ) having a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610 ,  802 ,  918 . 
     At  1120 , the reduction subsystem  246 , the clustering subsystem  248 , or another component of operation module  228 , or the interface module  230 , can determine, for each event vector  1112 ( k ) of the plurality of event vectors  1112 , a respective cluster identifier  1122 ( k ) (which can represent cluster identifier  330 ,  332 ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  516 ,  614 ,  722 ,  806 ,  930 . 
       FIG. 12  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  1200  for performing security analyses of events and providing access via a user interface to those events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  1200  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  1110  can be followed by operation  1202 ; operation  1120  can include or be preceded by operation  1202 ; operation  1120  can include operation  1206 ; operation  1116  can include operation  1212 ; or operation  1116  or  1120  can be followed by operation  1208 . 
     At  1202 , the reduction subsystem  246  or the clustering subsystem  248  can determine a respective reduced event vector  1204 ( k ) for each event vector  1112 ( k ) of the plurality of event vectors, wherein each event vector has a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements in the event vectors  1112 . For example, t-SNE reduction can be used. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610 ,  802 ,  1002  and reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ,  612 ,  804 ,  1004 . 
     At  1206 , the clustering subsystem  248  can cluster (e.g., using HDBSCAN) the reduced event vectors  1204  to determine the respective cluster identifiers  1122  for each of the reduced event vectors  1204 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  614 ,  806 ,  1006 . Operation  1120  can include operation  1206 , or can include both operation  1202  and operation  1206 . 
     At  1208 , the interface module  230  can present, via an electronic display  204 , respective representations  1210 ( k ) of at least some events  1106 ( k ) of the plurality  1108  of events at the respective coordinate vectors  1118 ( k ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  922 ,  1012 . 
     At  1212 , the clustering subsystem  248 , the reduction subsystem  246 , or the interface module  230  can determine the coordinate vectors  1118  based at least in part on the respective reduced event vectors  1204 . The third number of elements in the reduced event vectors  1204  can be larger than the second number of elements in the coordinate vectors  1118 . For example, operation  1212  can include performing a further t-SNE, SNE, or other dimensionality-reduction operation, or projecting to reduce dimensionality (e.g., 3D−2D). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  1008 . 
       FIG. 13  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  1300  for performing security analyses of events and providing access via a user interface to those events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  1300  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  1208  can be followed by operation  1306  or  1312 . Some examples use operations  1306 - 1310 . Some examples use operations  1312 - 1330 . Some examples use operations  1306 - 1330 . 
     In some examples, the plurality  1108  of events comprises a cluster  1302  of events. Each event  1106  in the cluster  1302  of events corresponds to a cluster identifier  1304  of the respective cluster identifiers  1122 . 
     At  1306 , the security subsystem  250  can determine that the cluster  1302  is associated with a security violation based at least in part on a predetermined criterion  1308  over the cluster  1302  being satisfied. For example, criterion  1308  can require that the majority (or another predetermined percentage, e.g., 40%, 50%, or 70%) of the events  1106  in the cluster  1302  be dirty. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  418 ,  532 ,  728 , 
     At  1310 , the interface module  230  can highlight, in response to the determination at operation  1306  and via the electronic display, at least some of the representations  1210  associated with the cluster  1302 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  1012  and presentation of representations with non-positional attributes  1014 . 
     In some examples, operation  1310  permits readily distinguishing cluster  1302  from other clusters or groups of events  1106  of the plurality  1108  of events. This can permit more effectively determining characteristics of cluster  1302  that distinguish it from other clusters, which can in turn permit more effectively analyzing events  1106  of the plurality  1108  of events to determine security-relevant information about those events. 
     At  1312 , the interface module  230  can receive, via UI  202 , a selection  1314  (which can represent selection  928 ) of a representation  1316  of the respective representations  1210 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  926 . Operation  1312  can be performed after the presenting (operation  1208 ), or after the highlighting (operation  1310 ). 
     In some examples, operation  1208  can be followed by operations  1312  and  1310 , in that order, as indicated by the stippled arrow. For example, the interface module  230  can receive selection  1314  (operation  1312 ) and determine that the selection  1314  is associated with an event  1106 ( k ) in cluster  1302 . The interface module  230  can then highlight (operation  1310 ) the representations  1210 ( k ) of at least some of the events  1106 ( k ) in cluster  1302 . For example, events  1106 ( k ) having “unknown” classifications  116  can be highlighted. This can permit more readily determining which events  1106 ( k ) may require further analysis. 
     At  1318 , the clustering subsystem  248 , the security subsystem  250 , or the interface module  230  can determine a cluster identifier  1320  associated with the representation  1316  (and thus with the corresponding event  1106 ( k ) of the plurality  1108  of events). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  926 ,  1020 ,  1206 . For example, the cluster identifier  1320  can be retrieved from the results of operation  1206 . 
     At  1322 , the clustering subsystem  248 , the security subsystem  250 , or the interface module  230  can select a group  1324  of events  1106  of the plurality  1108  of events, each event in the group  1324  of events associated with the cluster identifier  1320 . For example, group  1324  can include some of, or all of, the events  1106  in the cluster identified by cluster identifier  1320  (e.g., cluster  1302 , or another cluster  520 ,  724 ,  932 ). Operation  1322  can include selecting all the events  1106  associated with the cluster identifier  1320 . Additionally or alternatively, operation  1322  can include selecting those events  1106 ( k ) that are associated with both the cluster identifier  1320  and coordinate vectors  1118 ( k ) within an area of selection  1314  (e.g., an area around which a selection box was drawn via UI  202 ). 
     At  1326 , the communications module  232  or the interface module  230  can receive, via the UI  202 , an indication of a tag  1328  (which can represent tag  938 ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  936 . Operations  1312  and  1326  are mutually independent, in some examples. For example, operation  1326  can be performed before operation  1312  instead of after. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  926  and  936 . 
     At  1330 , the security subsystem  250  can associate each event  1106  of the first group  1324  of events with the tag  1328 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  940 . 
       FIG. 14  is a dataflow diagram that illustrates example techniques  1400  for performing security analyses of events, and related dataflow (shown dashed for clarity). In some examples, techniques  1400  can be performed by a control unit, as described herein, e.g., of a computing device  102 . In some examples, operation  1116  can be preceded by or include operation  1402 ; operation  1116  can include operation  1406 ; operation  1120  can include operation  1408 ; or operation  1120  can be followed by operation  1412 . Some examples use operations  1408 - 1406 . Some examples use operations  1412 - 1426 . Some examples use operations  1408 - 1426 . 
     At  1402 , the reduction subsystem  246  or the clustering subsystem  248  can determine (e.g., via t-SNE) a respective reduced event vector  1404 ( k ) for each event vector  1112 ( k ) of the plurality of event vectors. Each reduced event vector  1404  can have a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements in each of the event vectors  1112 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  322 ,  610 ,  802 ,  1002 ,  1202  and reduced event vectors  324 ,  326 ,  612 ,  804 ,  1004 ,  1204 . 
     At  1406 , the reduction subsystem  246  or the interface module  230  can determine the respective coordinate vectors  1118 ( k ) based at least in part on the respective reduced event vectors  1404 ( k ). For example, operation  1406  can include copying, reducing, or projecting the reduced event vectors  1404  to determine the coordinate vectors  1118 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  1008 ,  1212 . This can reduce the processing requirements of determining coordinate vectors  1118 . 
     At  1408 , the clustering subsystem  248  or the reduction subsystem  246  can cluster (e.g., via HDBSCAN) the event vectors  1112 ( k ) to determine the respective cluster identifiers  1122 ( k ). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  328 ,  516 ,  614 ,  722 ,  806 ,  930 . This can permit determining clusters using more of the information from each event vector  1112  than is present, e.g., in reduced event vectors  1404 . 
     In some examples, the plurality  1108  of events comprises a first cluster  1410  of events  1106 . Each event  1106  in the first cluster  1410  of events  1106  corresponds to a first cluster identifier  1122 ( 1 ) of the respective cluster identifiers  1122 . Some examples permit detecting events  1106 ( k ) that may have been mis-classified by other processing. 
     At  1412 , the security subsystem  250  or the clustering subsystem  248  can determine that the first cluster  1410  of events comprises at least a first group  1414  of events (e.g., the majority of the events) associated with a first classification  1416  and a second group  1418  of events (e.g., a minority of the events) associated with a second classification  1420  different from the first classification  1416 . Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  522 , first group  524 , and second group  528 . 
     At  1422 , the security subsystem  250  or the clustering subsystem  248  can determine that the first cluster  1410  of events satisfies a predetermined criterion  1424  over the first cluster based at least in part on at least: the number of events  1106  in the first group  1414  of events; or the number of events  1106  in the second group  1418  of events. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  532 . 
     At  1426 , the interface module  230  or communications module  232  can, in response to the determining that the first cluster  1410  satisfies the predetermined criterion  1424 , provide an indication  1428  of at least one event  1430  of the events  1106  in the second group  1418  of events. Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operation  536 . For example, operation  1426  can include providing the indication  1428  via communications interface  236  (e.g., by sending a network message containing indication  1428 ), or via display  204  or another component of UI  202  (e.g., by highlighting a representation  1210 ,  1316  of event  1430 , e.g., as discussed herein with reference to operation  1310 ). Additionally or alternatively, operation  1426  can include tagging or otherwise updating event data associated with event  1430  to include indication  1428  (e.g., a tag). Examples are discussed herein, e.g., with reference to operations  536 ,  940 . 
     In some examples, a computer-security system (e.g., including a computing device  102 ,  200 ) includes a computer-readable memory (e.g.,  212 ,  214 ) storing a representation mapping  222  (or  320 ,  514 ,  720 ,  916 ,  1114 ) and a communications interface  236 . The system can include a control unit configured to perform operations of  FIGS. 11-14 . Some example systems are configured to perform at least one of, or all of, the following groups of operations:  1102 - 1120 ;  1208  and  1312 ;  1318 - 1330 ;  1208 ,  1312 , and  1318 - 1330 ; or  1202  and  1206 . Some example systems configured to perform operations  1208  and  1312  include an electronic display (e.g., display  204 ), a user-input device (e.g., user-operable input device  206 ), and a user-interface subsystem (e.g., interface module  230 ) configured to perform those operations. 
     EXAMPLE CLAUSES 
     Various examples include one or more of, including any combination of any number of, the following example features. Throughout these clauses, parenthetical remarks are for example and explanation, and are not limiting. Parenthetical remarks given in this Example Clauses section with respect to specific language apply to corresponding language throughout this section, unless otherwise indicated. 
     A: A method of determining that a first event of a plurality of events is associated with a security violation, wherein: the plurality of events further includes a second event associated with a security violation; the first event is associated with a monitored computing device; each event of the plurality of events is associated with a respective command-line record; and the method comprises: for each event of the plurality of events, determining a respective event vector based at least in part on at least a portion of the respective command-line record and on a trained representation mapping, wherein each event vector has a first number of elements; determining a respective reduced event vector for each of the respective event vectors, wherein each reduced event vector has a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; clustering the reduced event vectors to determine a respective cluster identifier for each of the reduced event vectors, wherein the first event is associated with a first cluster identifier and the second event is associated with a second cluster identifier; and determining that the first event is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the first cluster identifier matching the second cluster identifier. 
     B: The method according to paragraph A, further comprising: receiving event data from the monitored computing device via a network, the event data comprising at least some of the command-line record associated with the first event; and in response to the determining that the first cluster identifier matches the second cluster identifier, transmitting a security command to the monitored computing device to cause the monitored computing device to perform a mitigation action. 
     C: The method according to paragraph A or B, wherein: the plurality of events comprises a first cluster of the events; each event in the first cluster is associated with the first cluster identifier; and the method further comprises determining that the first event is associated with a security violation further based at least in part on the first cluster of the events satisfying at least one predetermined criterion. 
     D: The method according to any of paragraphs A-C, wherein: the trained representation mapping comprises an x2vec mapping; and the method comprises: determining the reduced event vectors at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) of the event vectors in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements; and the clustering comprises clustering the reduced event vectors using Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN). 
     E: The method according to any of paragraphs A-D, wherein: the respective command-line record for each event comprises at least two command lines associated with that event; and the at least two command lines associated with the event comprise: a command line of a first process, the first process being a process that triggered the event; a command line of a second process that is a parent process of the first process; and a command line of a third process that is a parent process of the second process. 
     F: The method according to any of paragraphs A-E, further comprising: extracting at least two terms from the respective command-line record associated with the first event; and determining the respective event vector based at least in part on the at least two respective terms. 
     G: The method according to paragraph F, wherein: the respective command-line record for each event comprises at least two command lines associated with that event; and the method further comprises extracting the at least two terms at least partly by: extracting, from a first command line of the at least two command lines, a contiguous sequence of non-punctuation characters as a first term of the at least two terms; and extracting, from the first command line, a contiguous sequence of punctuation characters as a second term of the at least two terms. 
     H: At least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: receiving, via a communications interface, a plurality of command-line records associated with respective events of a plurality of events, wherein: each of the command-line records is associated with a corresponding monitored computing device of a plurality of monitored computing devices; determining a plurality of event vectors based at least in part on a trained representation mapping and on respective command-line records of the plurality of command-line records; clustering the events of the plurality of events based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors to assign each event to a cluster of a plurality of clusters, the plurality of clusters comprising a first cluster; determining that the first cluster comprises at least a relatively larger first group of events associated with a first classification and a relatively smaller second group of events associated with a second, different classification; determining that the first cluster satisfies a predetermined criterion based at least in part on at least: the number of events in the first group of events; or the number of events in the second group of events; and providing, via the communications interface and in response to the determining that the first cluster satisfies the predetermined criterion, an indication of a first event in the second group of events. 
     I: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph H, the operations further comprising: determining each event vector having a first number of elements; clustering the events at least partly by: determining a respective reduced event vector for each of the event vectors, wherein each reduced event vector has a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors to assign each reduced event vector, and its respective event, to a corresponding cluster of the plurality of clusters. 
     J: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph I, the operations further comprising: determining the reduced event vectors at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) of the event vectors in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors using Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN). 
     K: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of paragraphs H-J, wherein the plurality of command-line records comprises: a first command-line record associated with a first monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices; and a second command-line record associated with a second, different monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices. 
     L: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of paragraphs H-K, the operations further comprising: receiving, via the communications interface: a first command-line record of the plurality of command-line records, the first command-line record associated with the first event; and an indication that the first event is benign; and subsequently, providing the indication that the first event is associated with a security violation. 
     M: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of claims H-L, wherein the respective command-line record for each event comprises at least two command lines associated with that event. 
     N: A method comprising: receiving, via a communications interface, a plurality of command-line records, wherein: each command-line record represents a respective event of a plurality of events; each event of the plurality of events is associated with a respective command-line record, with a corresponding monitored computing device, and with a corresponding session at the corresponding monitored computing device; and each event is associated with a respective classification; determining a plurality of event vectors using a stored representation mapping and based at least in part on respective command-line records of the plurality of command-line records; clustering the events of the plurality of events based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors to assign each event to a cluster of a plurality of clusters, wherein each cluster of a first subset of the plurality of clusters includes at least one event that is associated with a first session; determining, for each cluster in the first subset of the plurality of clusters, whether that cluster is associated with a security violation based at least in part on at least some of the classifications of the events included in that cluster; and determining that the first session is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the first subset of the plurality of clusters satisfying a predetermined criterion. 
     O: The method according to paragraph N, further comprising determining that a first cluster of the plurality of clusters is associated with a security violation based at least in part on the respective classifications of at least some of the events in the first cluster satisfying a second predetermined criterion different from the predetermined criterion. 
     P: The method according to paragraph O, wherein: the predetermined criterion is satisfied by at least a predetermined percentage of the clusters in the first subset of the plurality of clusters being associated with a security violation; the predetermined percentage is at least thirty percent; the second predetermined criterion is satisfied by at least a second predetermined percentage of the events in the first cluster being associated with a security violation; and the second predetermined percentage is at least thirty percent. 
     Q: The method according to paragraph O or P, further comprising: determining that a second cluster of the plurality of clusters includes an event associated with the first session, wherein the first subset of the plurality of clusters excludes the second cluster; and determining, in response to the determining that the first session is associated with a security violation and to the determining that the second cluster of the plurality of clusters includes an event associated with the first session, that the second cluster is associated with a security violation. 
     R: The method according to any of paragraphs N-Q, wherein: each event is associated with a respective process that has a respective ancestor process; each command-line record comprises a respective first command line associated with the process; and each command-line record comprises a respective second command line associated with the ancestor process; 
     S: The method according to any of paragraphs N-R, wherein: the first session comprises a non-daemon process and a daemon process; and the non-daemon process is the process that spawned the daemon process. 
     T: The method according to any of paragraphs N-S, wherein each of the event vectors has a first number of elements and the method further comprises: determining respective reduced event vectors for each of the plurality of event vectors, each of the reduced event vectors having a second number of elements less than the first number of elements, at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) of the event vectors in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the second number of elements; and clustering the events at least partly by clustering the reduced event vectors using Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN). 
     U: The method according to any of paragraphs N-T, further comprising, in response to the determining that the first session is associated with a security violation, transmitting a security command to monitored computing device that is associated with the first session to cause the monitored computing device to perform a mitigation action. 
     V: The method according to any of claims N-U, wherein the respective command-line record for each event comprises at least two command lines associated with that event. 
     W: A method, comprising: receiving, via a communications interface, a plurality of command-line records associated with respective events of a plurality of events, wherein: each of the command-line records is associated with a corresponding monitored computing device of a plurality of monitored computing devices; determining a plurality of event vectors based at least in part on a trained representation mapping and on respective command-line records of the plurality of command-line records, each event vector having a first number of elements; determining, for each of the plurality of event vectors, a respective coordinate vector having a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; presenting, via an electronic display, respective representations of at least some events of the plurality of events at the respective coordinate vectors; receiving, via a user interface (UI), a selection of a first representation of the respective representations, the first representation associated with a first event; clustering the events of the plurality of events based at least in part on the plurality of event vectors to assign each event to a cluster of a plurality of clusters; determining a first cluster of the plurality of clusters based at least in part on the selection, wherein the first cluster includes the first event; receiving, via the UI, an indication of a tag; and associating each event of the first cluster of events with the tag. 
     X: The method according to paragraph W, further comprising sending, via the communications interface, an indication of a second event in the first cluster of events, the second event being different from the first event. 
     Y: The method according to paragraph W or X, further comprising, in response to the tag indicating that the first cluster of events is associated with a security violation, transmitting a security command to a monitored computing device associated with at least one event of the first cluster of events to cause the monitored computing device to perform a mitigation action. 
     Z: The method according to any of paragraphs W-Y, wherein at least some of the events are associated with respective classifications, the presenting comprising presenting the respective representations of the at least some of the events having respective non-positional attributes indicating the respective classifications. 
     AA: The method according to any of paragraphs W-Z, further comprising clustering the events at least partly by: determining a respective reduced event vector for each of the respective event vectors, wherein each reduced event vector has a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors to assign each reduced event vector, and its respective event, to a corresponding cluster of the plurality of clusters. 
     AB: The method according to paragraph AA, further comprising: determining the reduced event vectors at least partly by determining a t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) of the event vectors in a space having a number of dimensions equal to the third number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors using Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN). 
     AC: The method according to paragraph AA or AB, wherein: the third number of elements is greater than the second number of elements; and the method further comprises determining the coordinate vectors based at least in part on the reduced event vectors. 
     AD: The method according to any of paragraphs W-AC, wherein the first representation comprises a bounding region of the first cluster. 
     AE: The method according to any of claims W-AD, wherein the respective command-line record for each event comprises at least two command lines associated with that event. 
     AF: At least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: receiving, via a communications interface, a plurality of command-line records associated with respective events of a plurality of events, each of the events associated with a corresponding monitored computing device of a plurality of monitored computing devices, wherein: a first command-line record of the plurality of command-line records is associated with a first monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices; and a second command-line record of the plurality of command-line records is associated with a second monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices; determining a plurality of event vectors based at least in part on a trained representation mapping and on respective command-line records of the plurality of command-line records, each event vector having a first number of elements; and determining, for each of the plurality of event vectors: a respective cluster identifier; and a respective coordinate vector having a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements. 
     AG: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph AF, the operations further comprising presenting, via an electronic display, respective representations of at least some events of the plurality of events at the respective coordinate vectors. 
     AH: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph AG, the operations further comprising, after the presenting: receiving, via a user interface (UI), a selection of a first representation of the respective representations; determining a first cluster identifier associated with the first representation; selecting a first group of events of the plurality of events, each event in the first group of events associated with the first cluster identifier; receiving, via the UI, an indication of a tag; and associating each event of the first group of events with the tag. 
     AI: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph AG or AH, wherein: the plurality of events comprises a first cluster of events; each event in the first cluster of events corresponds to a first cluster identifier of the respective cluster identifiers; and the operations further comprise: determining that the first cluster is associated with a security violation based at least in part on a predetermined criterion over the first cluster; and highlighting, in response and via the electronic display, at least some of the representations associated with the first cluster. 
     AJ: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of paragraphs AF-AI, wherein: the plurality of events comprises a first cluster of events; each event in the first cluster of events corresponds to a first cluster identifier of the respective cluster identifiers; and the operations further comprise: determining that the first cluster of events comprises at least a first group of events associated with a first classification and a second group of events associated with a second classification different from the first classification; determining that the first cluster of events satisfies a predetermined criterion over the first cluster based at least in part on at least: the number of events in the first group of events; or the number of events in the second group of events; and providing, in response, an indication of at least one of the events in the second group of events. 
     AK: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of paragraphs AF-AJ, the operations further comprising determining the respective cluster identifiers at least partly by: determining a respective reduced event vector for each event vector of the plurality of event vectors, wherein each event vector has a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors to determine the respective cluster identifiers for each of the reduced event vectors. 
     AL: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to paragraph AK, wherein: the operations further comprise determining the coordinate vectors based at least in part on the respective reduced event vectors; and the third number of elements is larger than the second number of elements. 
     AM: The at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium according to any of paragraphs AF-AL, the operations further comprising: clustering the event vectors to determine the respective cluster identifiers; determining a respective reduced event vector for each event vector of the plurality of event vectors, wherein each reduced event vector has a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; and determining the respective coordinate vectors based at least in part on the respective reduced event vectors. 
     AN: A computer-security system, comprising: a computer-readable memory storing a representation mapping; a communications interface configured to receive a plurality of command-line records associated with respective events of a plurality of events, each of the events associated with a corresponding monitored computing device of a plurality of monitored computing devices, wherein: a first command-line record of the plurality of command-line records is associated with a first monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices; and a second command-line record of the plurality of command-line records is associated with a second monitored computing device of the plurality of monitored computing devices; a representation subsystem configured to determine a plurality of event vectors using the representation mapping and based at least in part on respective command-line records of the plurality of command-line records, each event vector having a first number of elements; and a clustering subsystem configured to determine, for each of the plurality of event vectors: a respective cluster identifier; and a respective coordinate vector having a second number of elements smaller than the first number of elements. 
     AO: The computer-security system according to paragraph AN, further comprising: an electronic display; a user input device; and a user-interface subsystem configured to: present, via an electronic display, respective representations of at least some events of the plurality of events at the respective coordinate vectors; and receive, via a user interface (UI), a selection of a first representation of the respective representations. 
     AP: The computer-security system according to paragraph AO, wherein: the system further comprises a security subsystem configured to: determine a first cluster identifier associated with the first representation; select a first group of events of the plurality of events, each event in the first group of events associated with the first cluster identifier; the user-interface subsystem is further configured to receive, via the UI, an indication of a tag; and the system is further configured to associate each event of the first group of events with the tag. 
     AQ: The computer-security system according to any of paragraphs AN-AP, the clustering subsystem configured to determine the respective cluster identifiers at least partly by: determining a respective reduced event vector for each event vector of the plurality of event vectors, wherein each event vector has a third number of elements smaller than the first number of elements; and clustering the reduced event vectors to determine the respective cluster identifiers for each of the reduced event vectors. 
     AR: Any of A-AQ, wherein the communications interface consists of a network interface. 
     AS: A computer-readable medium, e.g., a computer storage medium, having thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions upon execution configuring a computer to perform operations as any of paragraphs A-G, H-M, N-V, W-AE, AF-AM, AN-AQ, or AR recites. 
     AT: A device comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable medium, e.g., a computer storage medium, having thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions upon execution by the processor configuring the device to perform operations as any of paragraphs A-G, H-M, N-V, W-AE, AF-AM, AN-AQ, or AR recites. 
     AU: A system comprising: means for processing; and means for storing having thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions including means to configure the system to carry out a method as any of paragraphs A-G, H-M, N-V, W-AE, AF-AM, AN-AQ, or AR recites. 
     AV: Any of the preceding, with each occurrence of “at least two command lines” and similar text replaced with “at least one command line”. 
     CONCLUSION 
     Various techniques described herein, e.g., for performing security analyses of events  126 , can permit more efficiently determining a classification of an event. Various examples can reduce the time or memory requirements of software to determine classifications while maintaining or improving the accuracy of such determinations. Various examples provide automated detection of security violations (e.g., targeted attacks or malware-related events) with higher confidence levels than some previous schemes. This increased confidence can permit making triage decisions based on classifications provided by systems herein (e.g., classifications  116 , outputs  242 , or indications  538 ,  606 ,  818 ,  1022 ,  1428 ). Accordingly, security resources can be directed to events  302  more likely to be associated with security violations. This can reduce waste of security resources and can permit more quickly responding to violations. 
     Some examples may provide any of, or none of, the benefits listed herein, or other benefits. The claims are not limited to examples providing the benefits described above, and at least one embodiment may provide benefits that are not any of the benefits described above. Furthermore, the claimed subject matter is not limited to implementations that solve any or all disadvantages noted in any part of this disclosure. 
     The word “or” and the phrase “or” are used herein in an inclusive sense unless specifically stated otherwise. Accordingly, conjunctive language such as, but not limited to, at least one of the phrases “X, Y, or Z,” “at least X, Y, or Z,” “at least one of X, Y or Z,” “one or more of X, Y, or Z,” or any of those phrases with “or” substituted for “or,” unless specifically stated otherwise, is to be understood as signifying that an item, term, etc. can be either X, or Y, or Z, or a combination of any elements thereof (e.g., a combination of XY, XZ, YZ, or XYZ). Any use herein of phrases such as “X, or Y, or both” or “X, or Y, or combinations thereof” is for clarity of explanation and does not imply that language such as “X or Y” excludes the possibility of both X and Y, unless such exclusion is expressly stated. 
     As used herein, language such as “one or more Xs” is synonymous with “at least one X” unless otherwise expressly specified. Any recitation of “one or more Xs” signifies that the described steps, operations, structures, or other features may, e.g., include, or be performed with respect to, exactly one X, or a plurality of Xs, in various examples, and that the described subject matter operates regardless of the number of Xs present, as long as that number is greater than or equal to one. 
     Conditional language such as, among others, “can,” “could,” “might” or “may,” unless specifically stated otherwise, are understood within the context to present that certain examples include, while other examples do not include, certain features, elements or steps. Thus, such conditional language is not generally intended to imply that certain features, elements or steps are in any way required for one or more examples or that one or more examples necessarily include logic for deciding, with or without user input or prompting, whether certain features, elements or steps are included or are to be performed in any particular example. 
     Although some features and examples herein have been described in language specific to structural features or methodological steps, it is to be understood that the appended claims are not necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described herein. Rather, the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed examples. For example, computing devices  102  or  104 , network  108 , processing unit(s)  210 , or other structures described herein for which multiple types of implementing devices or structures are listed can include any of the listed types, or multiples or combinations thereof. 
     Moreover, this disclosure is inclusive of combinations of the aspects described herein. References to “a particular aspect” (or “embodiment” or “version”) and the like refer to features that are present in at least one aspect. Separate references to “an aspect” (or “embodiment”) or “particular aspects” or the like do not necessarily refer to the same aspect or aspects; however, such aspects are not mutually exclusive, unless so indicated or as are readily apparent to one of skill in the art. The use of singular or plural in referring to “method” or “methods” and the like is not limiting. 
     It should be emphasized that many variations and modifications can be made to the above-described examples, the elements of which are to be understood as being among other acceptable examples. All such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims. Moreover, in the claims, any reference to a group of items provided by a preceding claim clause is a reference to at least some of the items in the group of items, unless specifically stated otherwise. This document expressly envisions alternatives with respect to each and every one of the following claims individually, in any of which claims any such reference refers to each and every one of the items in the corresponding group of items. Furthermore, in the claims, unless otherwise explicitly specified, an operation described as being “based on” a recited item can be performed based on only that item, or based at least in part on that item. This document expressly envisions alternatives with respect to each and every one of the following claims individually, in any of which claims any “based on” language refers to the recited item(s), and no other(s). 
     Some operations of example techniques or devices herein are illustrated in individual blocks and logical flows thereof, and are summarized with reference to those blocks. The order in which the operations are described is not intended to be construed as a limitation unless otherwise indicated. Any number of the described operations can be executed in any order, combined in any order, subdivided into multiple sub-operations, or executed in parallel to implement the described techniques. For example, in alternative implementations included within the scope of the examples described herein, elements or functions can be deleted, or executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially synchronously or in reverse order. In some examples, combinations of the described functions can be performed in batch, in a streamed or pipelined manner, or in any combination of batch, stream, and pipelined processing. 
     Each illustrated block can represent one or more operations that can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination thereof. In the context of software, the operations described herein represent computer-executable instructions stored on at least one computer-readable medium (e.g., computer storage medium) that, when executed by one or more processors, cause or enable the one or more processors to perform the recited operations. Generally, computer-executable instructions include routines, programs, objects, modules, code segments, components, data structures, and the like that perform particular functions or implement particular abstract data types. 
     Accordingly, the methods, techniques, or operations described above can be embodied in, and fully automated via, software code modules executed by one or more computers or processors. As used herein, the term “module” is intended to represent example divisions of the described operations (e.g., implemented in software or hardware) for purposes of discussion, and is not intended to represent any type of requirement or required method, manner or organization. Therefore, while various “modules” are discussed herein, their functionality or similar functionality can be arranged differently (e.g., combined into a smaller number of modules, broken into a larger number of modules, etc.). In some instances, the functionality or modules discussed herein may be implemented as part of a computer OS  216 . In other instances, the functionality or modules may be implemented as part of a device driver, firmware, application, or other software subsystem. 
     Example computer-implemented operations described herein can additionally or alternatively be embodied in specialized computer hardware. For example, various aspects herein may take the form of an entirely hardware aspect, an entirely software aspect (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.), or an aspect combining software and hardware aspects. These aspects can all generally be referred to herein as a “service,” “circuit,” “circuitry,” “module,” or “system.” The described techniques can be performed by resources associated with one or more computing device(s)  102 ,  104 , or  200 , such as one or more internal or external CPUs or GPUs, or one or more pieces of hardware logic such as FPGAs, DSPs, or other types of accelerators.