Patent Document ID: 20180013777
Application ID: 15206005
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying network security risks, the method comprising: receiving organization data that represents a plurality of individuals in an organizational hierarchy of an organization, wherein the organization data includes data that indicates, for each individual of the plurality of individuals, one or more groups to which the individual belongs; receiving access privilege data that indicates, for each individual of the plurality of individuals, one or more access privileges that have been assigned to the individual for network resources; generating an adjacency matrix that represents connections between the plurality of individuals and the one or more groups, and that represents connections between the plurality of individuals and the one or more access privileges; selecting an analytic technique for analyzing the adjacency matrix; based on applying the selected analytic technique, for each individual of the plurality of individuals, determining an individual score that represents a security risk associated with a network account of the individual; determining, for a particular individual, that the individual score meets a predetermined threshold; and in response to the determining that the individual score meets a predetermined threshold, applying one or more security controls to the network account of the particular individual.