Modification or Removal of an Okta Application Sign-On Policyedit
Detects attempts to modify or delete a sign on policy for an Okta application. An adversary may attempt to modify or delete the sign on policy for an Okta application in order to remove or weaken an organization’s security controls.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-okta*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
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Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Identity
- Okta
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Identity and Access
- Persistence
Version: 8 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positivesedit
Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if sign on policies for Okta applications are regularly modified or deleted in your organization.
Investigation guideedit
Rule queryedit
event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:(application.policy.sign_on.update or application.policy.sign_on.rule.delete)
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Modify Authentication Process
- ID: T1556
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1556/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 8 (8.4.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 6 (7.13.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 5 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.11.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:(application.policy.sign_on.update or application.policy.sign_on.rule.delete)
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