Per-user baselines: how much history, and what if it's poisoned?

Experiment designHard

Problem. Salesforce's published insider-threat work profiles behavior per organization and per user from roughly three months of history, then scores the distance of each new event from that profile. Why three months, and what could go wrong with this design?

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