Administrator Role Assigned to an Okta User

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Identifies when an administrator role is assigned to an Okta user. An adversary may attempt to assign an administrator role to an Okta user in order to assign additional permissions to a user account and maintain access to their target’s environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: None (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Data Source: Okta
  • Use Case: Identity and Access Audit
  • Tactic: Persistence

Version: 105

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.account.privilege.grant

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM