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Comparison

EchoDepth vs UEBA:
Human Risk vs Digital Behaviour Analytics

UEBA monitors what people do with systems — after a digital act has occurred. EchoDepth monitors the emotional state of the person before the act. They cover different layers of the same problem. Used together, they close the 14-month gap.

User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) is the dominant insider threat detection approach in enterprise security. It works by establishing baseline digital behaviour patterns per user and entity, then alerting when anomalies are detected — unusual file access, off-hours logins, lateral movement. UEBA is well-evidenced, widely deployed, and genuinely effective at what it does. What it does not do is monitor the human emotional and psychological state that produces those digital behaviours. That is the layer EchoDepth covers.

The Core Problem: UEBA Detects After, EchoDepth Detects Before

Carnegie Mellon CERT's analysis of 150 insider cases found a 14-month average gap between the first observable emotional or behavioural precursor and the first malicious digital act. UEBA fires when the digital act occurs. EchoDepth surfaces signals during those 14 months.

This is not a failure of UEBA — it is a limitation inherent to monitoring digital exhaust. UEBA cannot detect what is not yet in the logs. EchoDepth monitors the human, not the logs. The two are complementary, not competing.

Side-by-Side Comparison

CapabilityUEBA / SIEMEchoDepth
What it monitorsDigital behaviour (files, logins, network)Human emotional and cognitive state
Detection timingAfter a digital act occursBefore digital acts — pre-digital signal
Signal sourceLogs, access records, network trafficFacial Action Units — 44 channels per frame
Baseline typeDigital behaviour baseline per userEmotional baseline per individual
Detects suppression/maskingNoYes — temporal AU sequencing
Continuous human monitoringNo — digital onlyYes — ~700ms latency
SCIF / air-gap deployablePartially (depends on architecture)Yes — fully on-premise, zero outbound
UK data residencyVaries by vendorYes — default, all processing in UK
SIEM integrationNative — is the SIEMYes — Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar via API
UK-developedVariesYes — Cavefish Ltd, Cardiff

How EchoDepth and UEBA Work Together

EchoDepth feeds structured emotional anomaly scores into SIEM platforms via REST API and WebSocket. In Splunk, Sentinel, or QRadar, EchoDepth data appears as a new field alongside digital behaviour events — enabling correlation queries that neither system could generate alone.

Example: an individual whose UEBA digital behaviour profile is entirely within normal parameters, but whose EchoDepth emotional baseline deviation has been elevated for three weeks, can be flagged for enhanced digital monitoring — before any anomalous digital act occurs. This is exactly the 14-month detection window that UEBA cannot cover.

EchoDepth can also trigger SOAR playbooks via SIEM integration — automatically initiating additional monitoring, review queuing, or alerting workflows when emotional anomaly thresholds are breached.

The combined picture

UEBA + EchoDepth = full insider threat coverage

UEBA covers the digital layer from the point of first digital act onward. EchoDepth covers the human emotional layer in the months before. Together they address the complete insider threat timeline — from first observable precursor to detection and response.

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