Excessive Login Attempts (Microsoft Defender for IoT)
This alert leverages Defender for IoT to detect excessive login attempts that may indicate improper service configuration, human error, or malicious activity on the network such as a cyber threat attempting to…
Description
This alert leverages Defender for IoT to detect excessive login attempts that may indicate improper service configuration, human error, or malicious activity on the network such as a cyber threat attempting to manipulate the SCADA network.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- None
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- iot
- Log source service
- securityalert_asc_for_iot
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
1 exclusive technique.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
Outside the enterprise matrix
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- f5217b4c-3f1f-4d89-b4f3-5d7581da1c1c
- Tagged by the source as
- ImpairProcessControl
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1