Post-Auth Config Change on Network Appliance (3P)
Hunts for post-auth configuration tampering on Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Cisco appliances in CommonSecurityLog, including firewall policy weakening, local admin changes, auth updates, and VPN/routing/ACL modifications.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 3 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- cefama
- Log source service
- commonsecuritylog
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 3d0ffd07-026f-44cf-9f60-8df51ba76690
- Tagged by the source as
- DefenseEvasionPersistence
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1