US Patent 11775639 File integrity monitoring

A file integrity monitoring system supports monitoring of system-critical, enterprise-critical and user-critical data by reporting events to a threat management facility in response to changes in certain files, folders, registry keys and registry values of the computing environment in which the system is operating and/or monitoring. The file integrity monitoring system may dynamically create, adapt and apply context-based rules to improve the sensitivity and relevance of reported events to undesirable changes in the data footprint of a monitored device.