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Attempt to Modify Okta Policy

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Attempt to Modify Okta Policy

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An adversary may attempt to modify an Okta policy in order to weaken an organization’s security controls. For example, an adversary may attempt to modify an Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA) policy in order to weaken the authentication requirements for user accounts.

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
  • Monitoring
  • 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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Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if Okta policies are regularly modified in your organization.

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:policy.lifecycle.update
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