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Attempt to Deactivate an Okta Application

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Attempt to Deactivate an Okta Application

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Detects attempts to deactivate an Okta application. An adversary may attempt to modify, deactivate, or delete an Okta application in order to weaken an organization’s security controls or disrupt their business operations.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

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
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 4 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Consider adding exceptions to this rule to filter false positives if your organization’s Okta applications are regularly deactivated and the behavior is expected.

Investigation guide

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## Config

The Okta Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:application.lifecycle.deactivate

Rule version history

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Version 4 (7.13.0 release)
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Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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