Administrator Privileges Assigned to an Okta Group
editAdministrator Privileges Assigned to an Okta Group
editDetects when an administrator role is assigned to an Okta group. An adversary may attempt to assign administrator privileges to an Okta group in order to assign additional permissions to compromised user accounts and maintain access to their target organization.
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: 4 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Potential false positives
editAdministrator roles may be assigned to Okta users by a Super Admin user. Verify that the behavior was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.
Investigation guide
editThe Okta Fleet integration or Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.
Rule query
editevent.dataset:okta.system and event.action:group.privilege.grant
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/
Rule version history
edit- Version 4 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.11.0 release)
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- Rule name changed from: Administrator Privileges Assigned to Okta Group
- Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:group.privilege.grant
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