Suspicious Activity Reported by Okta User

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Detects when a user reports suspicious activity for their Okta account. These events should be investigated, as they can help security teams identify when an adversary is attempting to gain access to their network.

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)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 6 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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A user may report suspicious activity on their Okta account in error.

Investigation guide

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Config

The Okta Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:user.account.report_suspicious_activity_by_enduser

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 6 (7.13.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.12.0 release)
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Version 4 (7.11.2 release)
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Version 3 (7.11.0 release)
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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
    event.action:user.account.report_suspicious_activity_by_enduser