Attempted Bypass of Okta MFA

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An adversary may attempt to bypass the Okta multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies configured for an organization in order to obtain unauthorized access to an application. This rule detects when an Okta MFA bypass attempt occurs.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

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
  • Identity and Access

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

Investigation guide

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

Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and event.action:user.mfa.attempt_bypass

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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

    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
    event.action:user.mfa.attempt_bypass