Users Opening and Reading the Local Device Identity Key

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This detection uses Windows security events to look for users reading the local Device Identity Key (Machine Key). This information can be correlated with other events for additional context and get to use-cases where a machine key with a transport key together can be used to impersonate an Entra ID joined or registered machine. Reference: https://o365blog.com/post/deviceidentity/

Attribute Value
Type Hunting Query
Solution GitHub Only
ID 9feddda0-6f46-43b4-a54f-5921e2b136b8
Tactics Credential Access
Techniques T1552
Required Connectors SecurityEvents
Source View on GitHub

Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
SecurityEvent ?

Associated Connectors

The following connectors provide data for this content item:

Connector Solution
WindowsSecurityEvents Windows Security Events

Solutions: Windows Security Events


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