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Netskope - Heavy Personal Cloud Storage Usage (Shadow IT)

Description

Detects heavy usage of personal cloud storage applications like personal Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive personal, etc. Indicates potential Shadow IT or data leakage risk.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1h
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let heavyUsageThresholdMB = 500;
NetskopeWebTransactions_CL
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where isnotempty(CsUsername) and isnotempty(XCsApp)
| where XCsApp has_any ('Dropbox', 'Google Drive', 'OneDrive', 'Box', 'iCloud', 'pCloud', 'MEGA', 'MediaFire', 'WeTransfer')
| where XCsAppInstanceTag contains 'Personal' 
    or XCsAppInstanceName contains 'Personal'
    or XCsAppTags contains 'Unsanctioned'
    or not(XCsAppTags contains 'Enterprise')
| summarize 
    TotalBytes = sum(Bytes),
    UploadBytes = sum(CsBytes),
    DownloadBytes = sum(ScBytes),
    FileCount = dcount(XCsAppObjectName),
    Files = make_set(XCsAppObjectName, 10),
    Activities = make_set(XCsAppActivity),
    EventCount = count()
    by CsUsername, XCsApp, XCsAppCategory, XCsAppInstanceName, XCsAppTags, XCDevice, XCCountry
| extend 
    TotalMB = round(TotalBytes / 1048576.0, 2),
    UploadMB = round(UploadBytes / 1048576.0, 2),
    DownloadMB = round(DownloadBytes / 1048576.0, 2)
| where TotalMB > heavyUsageThresholdMB or FileCount > 50
| project 
    TimeGenerated = now(),
    User = CsUsername,
    CloudApplication = XCsApp,
    AppCategory = XCsAppCategory,
    AppInstance = XCsAppInstanceName,
    AppTags = XCsAppTags,
    TotalDataMB = TotalMB,
    UploadMB,
    DownloadMB,
    FileCount,
    Files,
    Activities,
    Device = XCDevice,
    Country = XCCountry,
    EventCount

Declared entities

AccountCloudApplication

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
272f9bca-5fd0-4413-b494-03b2d9f0bb9b
Additional source files 2Solutions/NetskopeWebTx/Analytic Rules/NetskopeWebtx_Rule4.yamlsource ↗Solutions/NetskopeWebTx/Data/Solution_NetskopeWebTx.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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