User impersonation by Identity Protection alerts
This detection focuses on identifying user-related events involving IAM roles, groups, user access, and password changes. It examines instances where the user's IP address matches and alerts generated by Identity…
Description
This detection focuses on identifying user-related events involving IAM roles, groups, user access, and password changes. It examines instances where the user's IP address matches and alerts generated by Identity Protection share the same IP address. The analysis occurs within a time window of 1 hour, helping to flag potential cases of user impersonation.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
- Log source product
- awsazureactivedirectoryidentityprotection
- Log source service
- awscloudtrailsecurityalert_ipc
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
- 11c3d541-5fa5-49df-8218-d1c98584473b
- Tagged by the source as
- PrivilegeEscalation
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1