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Attempt to Delete an Okta Application

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Attempt to Delete an Okta Application

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Detects attempts to delete 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

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Identity
Okta
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Monitoring
Impact

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

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 deleted and the behavior is expected.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Impact
- ID: TA0040
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/
Technique:
- Name: Service Stop
- ID: T1489
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489/

Rule version history

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 6 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.13.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

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