Azure Conditional Access Policy Modified

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Identifies when an Azure Conditional Access policy is modified. Azure Conditional Access policies control access to resources via if-then statements. For example, if a user wants to access a resource, then they must complete an action such as using multi-factor authentication to access it. An adversary may modify a Conditional Access policy in order to weaken their target’s security controls.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-azure*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-25m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Azure
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Configuration Audit

Version: 3 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Investigation guide

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

Rule query

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event.dataset:(azure.activitylogs or azure.auditlogs) and (
azure.activitylogs.operation_name:"Update policy" or
azure.auditlogs.operation_name:"Update policy" ) and
event.outcome:(Success or success)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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

    event.dataset:(azure.activitylogs or azure.auditlogs) and (
    azure.activitylogs.operation_name:"Update policy" or
    azure.auditlogs.operation_name:"Update policy" ) and
    event.outcome:success