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Admin password not updated in 30 days

This is a third-party alert feed, not a detection over modeled telemetry. The vendor product raised the finding; this rule forwards it into the SIEM. It is searchable for reference but is excluded from the detection-rule browse and the ATT&CK coverage matrix.

Status
available
Severity
medium
Time window
30m
Source
github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

The policy detects an administrative account where the password of the account was not updated in the last 30 days.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Initial AccessT1078 Valid Accounts

Rule body kusto

id: 63d87fcb-d197-48d2-a642-de4813f0219a
name: Admin password not updated in 30 days
kind: Scheduled
description: The policy detects an administrative account where the password of the account was not updated in the last 30 days.
severity: Medium
status: Available
queryFrequency: 30m
queryPeriod: 30m
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
tactics:
  - InitialAccess
relevantTechniques:
  - T1078
query: |-
  Authomize_v2_CL
  | where ingestion_time() >= ago(30m)
  | extend EventID = id_s, Policy = policy_name_s, Severity = severity_s,Description = description_s,Recommendation = recommendation_s,URL = url_s,Tactics = tactics_s
  | where Policy has "Admin password wasn't updated during the last 30 days"
  | project  EventID, Policy, Severity, Description, Recommendation, URL, Category, Tactics
entityMappings:
  - entityType: URL
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Url
        columnName: URL
requiredDataConnectors:
- connectorId: Authomize
  dataTypes: [ "Authomize_v2_CL" ]
incidentConfiguration:
  createIncident: true
  groupingConfiguration:
    enabled: true
    reopenClosedIncident: false
    lookbackDuration: 5h
    matchingMethod: AnyAlert
    groupByEntities: []
    groupByAlertDetails: []
    groupByCustomDetails: []
eventGroupingSettings:
  aggregationKind: SingleAlert
alertDetailsOverride:
  alertnameFormat: Alert from Authomize - Admin password wasn't updated during the last 30 days
  alertDescriptionFormat: |
    Admin password wasn't updated during the last 30 days. The policy detects admin account where password wasn't updated during the last 30 days.
  alertSeverity: Severity
  alertTactics: Tactics
  alertDynamicProperties:
  - alertProperty: AlertLink
    value: URL
customDetails:
  AuthomizeEventID: EventID
  EventName: Policy
  EventDescription: Description
  EventRecommendation: Recommendation
  ReferencedURL: URL
suppressionDuration: 5h
suppressionEnabled: false
version: 1.0.2

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: source

Authomize_v2_CL

Stage 2: where

| where ingestion_time() >= ago(30m)

Stage 3: extend

| extend EventID = id_s, Policy = policy_name_s, Severity = severity_s,Description = description_s,Recommendation = recommendation_s,URL = url_s,Tactics = tactics_s

Stage 4: where

| where Policy has "Admin password wasn't updated during the last 30 days"

Stage 5: project

| project  EventID, Policy, Severity, Description, Recommendation, URL, Category, Tactics

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
Policymatch
  • Admin password wasn't updated during the last 30 days transforms: term

Output fields

Fields the rule emits when it matches. Chronicle authors list these in the outcome block; they appear on the detection and $risk_score drives alerting. Sentinel / Defender XDR rules build them up through project / summarize / extend stages. Sentinel maps these into alert fields via entityMappings and customDetails; Defender XDR custom detections surface them as alert fields directly.

FieldSource
Categoryproject
Descriptionproject
EventIDproject
Policyproject
Recommendationproject
Severityproject
Tacticsproject
URLproject