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Attempt to Deactivate MFA for Okta User Account

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Attempt to Deactivate MFA for Okta User Account

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An adversary may deactivate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an Okta user account in order to weaken the authentication requirements for the account.

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

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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 positives

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If the behavior of deactivating MFA for Okta user accounts is expected, consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives.

Investigation guide

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

Rule query

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event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:user.mfa.factor.deactivate

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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