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Attempt to Deactivate Okta MFA Ruleedit

An adversary may attempt to deactivate an Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA) rule in order to remove or weaken an organization’s security controls.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Okta
  • SecOps
  • Identity and Access
  • Continuous Monitoring

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positivesedit

Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if Okta MFA rules are regularly deactivated in your organization.

Investigation guideedit

The Okta Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule queryedit

event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:policy.rule.deactivate
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