US Patent 10447727 Predicting and addressing harmful or sensitive network activity

Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for predictable detection in a computing network. Techniques include identifying an activity associated with an identity in the computer network; accessing hierarchical-chained progression states representing timelines defining one or more process flows for operations in the computer network between beginning states and corresponding predictable result states to be controlled; identifying a hierarchical-chained progression state corresponding to the identified activity; automatically predicting a likelihood that the at least one activity will reach the predictable result state corresponding to the identified hierarchical-chained progression state; and implementing a control action for the activity, the identity, or a resource to which the identity is seeking to communicate.